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15-letter words containing t, r, i, g, e

  • engagement ring — ring worn by bride-to-be
  • engraving plate — a metal, usually steel, plate on which an image is engraved in order to be reproduced
  • erythromelalgia — A rare neurovascular peripheral pain disorder in which blood vessels, usually in the lower extremities or hands, are episodically blocked, then become hyperemic and inflamed.
  • estuary english — a variety of standard British English in which the pronunciation reflects various features characteristic of London and the Southeast of England
  • everlastingness — The state or quality of being everlasting.
  • export earnings — the earnings of a company or country that are generated through the export of goods or services
  • extralinguistic — Outside the realm of linguistics.
  • extreme ironing — an activity that involves ironing items of laundry while engaged in a sport such as snowboarding or rock climbing
  • fairy godfather — a kindly sponsor or guardian; godfather.
  • fairy godmother — a kindly sponsor or guardian; godmother.
  • falling weather — wet weather, as rain or snow.
  • farm gate price — the price for the sale of farm produce direct from the producer
  • feather banding — decorative banding of veneer or inlay having the grain laid diagonally to the grain of the principal surface.
  • fibrocartilages — Plural form of fibrocartilage.
  • fighter command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to the use of fighter aircraft, esp against enemy bombers and their escorts during WWII
  • fighting french — Free French.
  • figurate number — a number having the property that the same number of equally spaced dots can be arranged in the shape of a regular geometrical figure.
  • figure of eight — figure eight.
  • figure of merit — a measure of the efficiency of a helicopter in hover
  • finger alphabet — a series of shapes made by the fingers that indicate letters of an alphabet and can be used in fingerspelling for the deaf
  • finger painting — a jellylike paint, used chiefly by children in painting, usually with their fingers.
  • finger-pointing — the imputation of blame or responsibility.
  • fire-and-forget — used to describe a type of missile that, once fired, is able to guide itself to its target
  • first gentleman — (often initial capital letters) the husband of the U.S. president or a current governor or mayor.
  • first messenger — a hormone that triggers a biochemical reaction at a site removed from its release.
  • flame-arc light — an arc light that uses flame carbons to colour the arc
  • flapping router — (networking)   A router that transmits routing updates alternately advertising a destination network first via one route, then via a different route. Flapping routers are identified on more advanced protocol analysers such as the Network General (TM) Sniffer.
  • flibbertigibbet — a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
  • flight engineer — a member of an aircraft crew responsible for the mechanical systems, fueling, and servicing of the craft.
  • flight recorder — an electronic device aboard an aircraft that automatically records some aspects of the aircraft's performance in flight.
  • flight sergeant — a noncommissioned officer in the Royal Air Force junior in rank to a master aircrew
  • floating charge — an unsecured charge on the assets of an enterprise that allows such assets to be used commercially until the enterprise ceases to operate or the creditor intervenes to demand collateral
  • floating screed — Building Trades. screed (def 3).
  • flowering plant — a plant that produces flowers, fruit, and seeds; angiosperm.
  • fluorine dating — a method of determining the relative age of fossil bones found in the same excavation by comparing their fluorine content.
  • 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.
  • foreshortenings — Plural form of foreshortening.
  • foresightedness — care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
  • forget about it — don't mention it, you're welcome
  • forthcomingness — coming, forth, or about to come forth; about to appear; approaching in time: the forthcoming concert.
  • fortysomethings — Plural form of fortysomething.
  • founding father — The founding father of an institution, organization, or idea is the person who sets it up or who first develops it.
  • fragmentariness — The quality of being fragmentary.
  • fragrance strip — a folded, usually sealed strip on a page or card, impregnated with fragrance that is released when pulled or torn open: The magazine is full of fragrance strips in the advertisements.
  • freedom fighter — a fighter for freedom, especially a person who battles against established forces of tyranny and dictatorship.
  • freight charges — the price charged for conveying goods by freight
  • frigidoreceptor — a receptor stimulated by cold.
  • fringe festival — an unofficial, often unconventional, arts festival that is associated with another, larger festival
  • fringed gentian — a plant of the genus Gentianopsis (or Gentiana), especially G. crinita, having a tubular blue corolla with four fringed petals.
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