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15-letter words containing o, n, e, s, f, l

  • fetal diagnosis — prenatal determination of genetic or chemical abnormalities in a fetus, esp by amniocentesis
  • field of vision — the entire view encompassed by the eye when it is trained in any particular direction.
  • flatter oneself — to hold the self-satisfying or self-deluding belief (that)
  • flavourlessness — Alternative spelling of flavorlessness.
  • flavoursomeness — Alt form flavorsomeness.
  • flesh and blood — offspring or relatives: one's own flesh and blood.
  • flirtatiousness — The quality of being flirtatious.
  • floating screed — Building Trades. screed (def 3).
  • flood insurance — insurance covering loss or damage to property arising from a flood, flood tide, or the like.
  • floriferousness — Quality of being floriferous, or bearing many flowers.
  • flowerhorn fish — a brightly coloured cichlid fish with a large protuberance on the head
  • flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
  • flowers of zinc — a white or yellowish-white, amorphous, odorless, water-insoluble powder, ZnO, used chiefly as a paint pigment, in cosmetics, dental cements, matches, white printing inks, and opaque glass, and in medicine in the treatment of skin conditions.
  • fly honeysuckle — either of two honeysuckle shrubs, Lonicera canadensis, of eastern North America, or L. xylosteum, of Eurasia, having paired yellowish flowers tinged with red.
  • flying fortress — a heavy bomber, the B-17, with four radial piston engines, widely used over Europe and the Mediterranean by the U.S. Air Force in World War II.
  • food supplement — a substance designed to make up for a deficiency in one's diet
  • football season — annual period when soccer is played
  • formation rules — the set of rules that specify the syntax of a formal system; the algorithm that generates the well-formed formulae
  • foul one's nest — grossly offensive to the senses; disgustingly loathsome; noisome: a foul smell.
  • fovea centralis — a small pit or depression at the back of the retina forming the point of sharpest vision.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • go up in flames — be burned
  • golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
  • gulf of fonseca — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in W Central America
  • half-understood — partially understood
  • help oneself to — to serve or provide oneself with (food, etc.)
  • 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.
  • 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.”.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
  • island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
  • 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.
  • land of promise — Promised Land.
  • latensification — (in photography) the process of intensifying a latent image by the use of chemicals, extra exposure to light, or other means
  • lay oneself out — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
  • liaison officer — a person who liaises between groups or units
  • line of apsides — a line joining the lower and higher apsides, forming the major axis of the orbit
  • line of descent — someone's line of descent is all the people they are descended from
  • lofoten islands — group of Norwegian islands within the Arctic Circle, off the NW coast of Norway: c. 550 sq mi (1,424 sq km)
  • loft conversion — an extra room added to a house by converting the roof space
  • long-sufferance — long-suffering.
  • longshore drift — beach drift.
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