15-letter words containing o, f, e, n, s
- fortysomethings — Plural form of fortysomething.
- foul one's nest — grossly offensive to the senses; disgustingly loathsome; noisome: a foul smell.
- fountains abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Ripon in Yorkshire: founded 1132, dissolved 1539; landscaped 1720
- fourteen points — a statement of the war aims of the Allies, made by President Wilson on January 8, 1918.
- fourteen-points — a statement of the war aims of the Allies, made by President Wilson on January 8, 1918.
- fovea centralis — a small pit or depression at the back of the retina forming the point of sharpest vision.
- franz joseph ii — 1906–1989, prince of Liechtenstein 1938–89.
- freestone state — Connecticut (used as a nickname).
- fresnel mirrors — two plane mirrors so linked that a beam of light falling on them is reflected in slightly different directions, thus producing interference fringes in the area where this reflected light overlaps
- fringing forest — gallery forest.
- front-page news — a story printed on the first page of a newspaper
- frozen shoulder — joint stiffness at top of arm
- fulfill oneself — to realize completely one's ambitions, potentialities, etc.
- full of oneself — full of pride or conceit; egoistic
- fully fashioned — (of stockings, knitwear, etc) shaped and seamed so as to fit closely
- functionalities — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- furniture store — shop: sells furnishings
- giant sunflower — a composite plant, Helianthus giganteus, of eastern North America, growing nearly 12 feet (4 meters) high and having very large yellow flower heads.
- gift of tongues — speaking in tongues.
- go up in flames — be burned
- golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
- goodness of fit — the extent to which observed sample values of a variable approximate to values derived from a theoretical density, often measured by a chi-square test
- grafenberg spot — a patch of tissue in the front wall of the vagina, claimed to be erectile and highly erogenous.
- guest of honour — If you say that someone is the guest of honour at a dinner or other social occasion, you mean that they are the most important guest.
- gulf of fonseca — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in W Central America
- half-understood — partially understood
- have no use for — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
- help oneself to — to serve or provide oneself with (food, etc.)
- hoffman estates — a city in NE Illinois.
- hopeful monster — a hypothetical individual organism that, by means of a fortuitous macromutation permitting an adaptive shift to a new mode of life, becomes the founder of a new type of organism and a vehicle of macroevolution.
- housewifization — The process by which the division of labor has relegated women into housewives.
- housing benefit — In Britain, housing benefit is money that the government gives to people with no income or very low incomes to pay for part or all of their rent.
- hundred flowers — the 1957 political campaign in the People's Republic of China to encourage greater freedom of intellectual expression, initiated by Mao Zedong under the slogan “Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.”.
- identifications — Plural form of identification.
- if nothing else — You can say 'if nothing else' to indicate that what you are mentioning is, in your opinion, the only good thing in a particular situation.
- in spite of sth — You use in spite of to introduce a fact which makes the rest of the statement you are making seem surprising.
- in the hands of — under the control of
- in the midst of — amid, among
- in the shape of — You can use in the shape of to state exactly who or what you are referring to, immediately after referring to them in a general way.
- inefficaciously — Without efficacy or effect.
- inertial fusion — a type of nuclear fusion in which the inertia of matter enables it to fuse by impact, as by pulses of laser radiation or high-energy charged particles, rather than by high temperature
- informativeness — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- inoffensiveness — The state or condition of being inoffensive.
- intensification — to make intense or more intense.
- interferometers — Plural form of interferometer.
- interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
- island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
- jefferson davis — Alexander Jackson, 1803–92, U.S. architect.
- jeffersonianism — pertaining to or advocating the political principles and doctrines of Thomas Jefferson, especially those stressing minimum control by the central government, the inalienable rights of the individual, and the superiority of an agrarian economy and rural society.
- keep to oneself — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.