15-letter words containing s, e, l, f, d
- flatbed scanner — a type of optical scanner having a flat, stationary surface on which a page is scanned by a moving head.
- flesh and blood — offspring or relatives: one's own flesh and blood.
- flight of ideas — a rapid flow of thought, manifested by accelerated speech with abrupt changes from topic to topic: a symptom of some mental illnesses, especially manic disorder.
- flinders island — an island off the coast of NE Tasmania: the largest of the Furneaux Islands. Pop: 850 (2004 est). Area: 2077 sq km (802 sq miles)
- 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.
- floods of tears — If you say that someone was in floods of tears or in a flood of tears, you are emphasizing that they were crying with great intensity because they were very upset.
- fluid mechanics — an applied science dealing with the basic principles of gaseous and liquid matter.
- food supplement — a substance designed to make up for a deficiency in one's diet
- fool's paradise — a state of enjoyment based on false beliefs or hopes; a state of illusory happiness.
- forecastle deck — a partial weather deck on top of a forecastle superstructure; topgallant forecastle.
- forecastle head — the extreme fore part of a forecastle superstructure.
- frozen shoulder — joint stiffness at top of arm
- fully fashioned — (of stockings, knitwear, etc) shaped and seamed so as to fit closely
- fundamentalists — Plural form of fundamentalist.
- fundamentalness — The state or condition of being fundamental; essential importance.
- gatefold sleeve — a record sleeve that opens out like a book
- get hold of sth — If you get hold of an object or information, you obtain it, usually after some difficulty.
- golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
- good-fellowship — a pleasant, convivial spirit; comradeship; geniality.
- greenfield site — a site located in a rural area which has not previously been built on
- half-understood — partially understood
- halfheartedness — The characteristic of being half-hearted.
- heralds' office — the official heraldic authority of Scotland.
- 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.”.
- in difficulties — in distress, esp. financially
- indefeasibility — The state or quality of being indefeasible, of being incapable of being defeated.
- indefensibility — The quality or state of not being defensible.
- island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
- land of promise — Promised Land.
- 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)
- longshore drift — beach drift.
- lord of misrule — (in England) a person formerly chosen to direct the Christmas revels and sports.
- maid of orléans — Saint ("the Maid of Orléans") 1412?–31, French national heroine and martyr who raised the siege of Orléans.
- paradise flower — a prickly vine, Solanum wendlandii, of the nightshade family, native to Costa Rica, having branched clusters of showy lilac-blue flowers.
- personal friend — a person who is a friend, rather than a colleague or acquaintance
- plumbers-friend — Machinery. a pistonlike reciprocating part moving within the cylinder of a pump or hydraulic device.
- potash feldspar — any of the feldspar minerals having the composition KAlSi 3 O 8 , as orthoclase.
- ranfurly shield — (in New Zealand) the premier rugby trophy, competed for annually by provincial teams
- rayside-balfour — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- read oneself in — to assume possession of a benefice by publicly reading the Thirty-nine Articles
- refuse disposal — the act of disposing of rubbish and waste
- reworked fossil — a fossil eroded from sediment and redeposited in younger sediment
- sale of produce — the selling of something that is produced, esp agricultural products
- scolopendriform — resembling scolopendra
- seafood platter — a plate of assorted seafood, served in a restaurant
- self-adjustment — adjustment of oneself or itself, as to the environment.
- self-admiration — a feeling of wonder, pleasure, or approval.