15-letter words containing t, o, f, r
- free throw lane — the rectangular area, 19 feet (5.7 meters) long and usually 12 or 16 feet (3.6 m or 4.8 meters) wide, extending from the end line behind each backboard to the foul line and along the sides of which players line up during a foul shot.
- free throw line — foul line (def 2).
- free-trade zone — foreign-trade zone. free port (def 1). Abbreviation: FTZ.
- freedom fighter — a fighter for freedom, especially a person who battles against established forces of tyranny and dictatorship.
- freestone state — Connecticut (used as a nickname).
- french overture — a short piece in three movements common in the 17th and 18th centuries
- french togoland — a former United Nations Trust Territory in W Africa, administered by France (1946–60), now the independent republic of Togo
- french vermouth — a dry aromatic white wine
- friction clutch — a clutch in which one part turns another by friction between them.
- friend at court — a friend in a position of influence or power who may advance one's interests, especially a helpful person who is close to someone in authority.
- frigidoreceptor — a receptor stimulated by cold.
- fringing forest — gallery forest.
- from day to day — between one day and the next
- from sun to sun — from sunrise to sunset
- from the get-go — If something happens or is true from the get-go, it happens or is true from the beginning of a process or activity.
- from top to toe — You can use from top to toe to emphasize that the whole of someone's body is covered or dressed in a particular thing or type of clothing.
- front-page news — a story printed on the first page of a newspaper
- frontal cyclone — any extratropical cyclone associated with a front: the most common cyclonic storm.
- fructifications — Plural form of fructification.
- full outer join — outer join
- fumitory family — the plant family Fumariaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having deeply cut basal or alternate leaves, flowers with four petals of which one or two are spurred or lobed, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the bleeding heart, Dutchman's-breeches, fumitory, and squirrel corn.
- funeral oration — a formal speech delivered at a funeral
- furniture depot — a shop that sells the movable, generally functional, articles that equip a room, house, etc
- furniture mover — person: removal worker
- furniture store — shop: sells furnishings
- fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
- fusospirochetes — Plural form of fusospirochete.
- gaming platform — a computer system specially made for playing video games; a console: The new gaming platforms have much better graphics resolution than previous generation consoles.
- 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 for a burton — to be broken, useless, or lost
- godfather offer — a takeover bid pitched so high that the management of the target company is unable to dissuade shareholders from accepting it
- golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
- grade inflation — the awarding of higher grades than students deserve either to maintain a school's academic reputation or as a result of diminished teacher expectations.
- grafenberg spot — a patch of tissue in the front wall of the vagina, claimed to be erectile and highly erogenous.
- granitification — the process or action of forming into granite
- grapes of wrath — a novel (1939) by John Steinbeck.
- green footprint — the impact of a building on the environment
- greenbottle fly — any of several metallic-green blowflies, as Phaenicia sericata.
- griffith-joyner — Florence, known as Flojo. 1959–98, US sprinter, winner of two gold medals at the 1988 Olympic Games
- 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 corinth — an inlet of the Ionian Sea between the Peloponnese and central Greece
- gulf of taranto — an inlet of the Ionian Sea, in Apulia in SE Italy
- hair of the dog — an alcoholic drink taken as an antidote to a hangover
- half-understood — partially understood
- have the ear of — to be in a position to influence
- heart of hearts — the depths of one's conscience or emotions
- heterofullerene — (chemistry) Any compound formally derived from a fullerene by replacing one or more carbon atom by a heteroatom.
- holiday traffic — increased road traffic during holiday periods and public holidays
- 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.
- hour after hour — continuously for many hours