15-letter words containing s, e, l, f, r, n
- fleet insurance — Fleet insurance is a type of insurance contract that applies to a number of vehicles.
- fleming's rules — two rules used as mnemonics for the relationship between the directions of current flow, motion, and magnetic field in electromagnetic induction. The hand is held with the thumb, first, and second fingers at right angles, respectively indicating the directions of motion, field, and electric current. The left hand is used for electric motors and the right hand for dynamos
- flemish brabant — a province of central Belgium, formed in 1995 from the N part of Brabant province: densely populated and intensively farmed, with large industrial centres. Pop: 1 031 904 (2004 est). Area: 2106 sq km (813 sq miles)
- flight sergeant — a noncommissioned officer in the Royal Air Force junior in rank to a master aircrew
- 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)
- 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.
- flying buttress — a segmental arch transmitting an outward and downward thrust to a solid buttress that through its inertia transforms the thrust into a vertical one.
- 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.
- flying squirrel — any of various nocturnal tree squirrels, as Glaucomys volans, of the eastern U.S., having folds of skin connecting the fore and hind legs, permitting long, gliding leaps.
- formation rules — the set of rules that specify the syntax of a formal system; the algorithm that generates the well-formed formulae
- fovea centralis — a small pit or depression at the back of the retina forming the point of sharpest vision.
- franklin square — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- fraternal twins — one of a pair of twins, not necessarily resembling each other, or of the same sex, that develop from two separately fertilized ova.
- fresnel biprism — biprism.
- 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
- friar's lantern — ignis fatuus (def 1).
- fringe festival — an unofficial, often unconventional, arts festival that is associated with another, larger festival
- frozen shoulder — joint stiffness at top of arm
- funeral service — ceremony at a burial or cremation
- gesneria family — the plant family Gesneriaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having a basal rosette of usually toothed leaves, tubular two-lipped flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including the African violet, gloxinia, and streptocarpus.
- 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.
- golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
- 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.
- 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.”.
- 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
- interfascicular — pertaining to or forming a fascicle; fasciculate.
- interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
- island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
- land of promise — Promised Land.
- liaison officer — a person who liaises between groups or units
- loft conversion — an extra room added to a house by converting the roof space
- long-sufferance — long-suffering.
- longshore drift — beach drift.
- maid of orléans — Saint ("the Maid of Orléans") 1412?–31, French national heroine and martyr who raised the siege of Orléans.
- mistrustfulness — Quality of being mistrustful.
- moccasin flower — the lady's-slipper.
- national forest — forested land owned, maintained, and preserved by the U.S. government.
- nonprofessional — not a member of or trained in a specific profession.
- nonprofessorial — not professorial
- nontransferable — Not transferable; not able to be transferred.
- not be yourself — If you say that you are not yourself, you mean you are not feeling well.