15-letter words containing l, a, f, r, g
- football ground — an area of land where football games are played
- fore-topgallant — being a sail, yard, or rigging belonging to a fore-topgallant mast.
- formal argument — (programming) (Or "parameter") A name in a function or subroutine definition that is replaced by, or bound to, the corresponding actual argument when the function or subroutine is called. In many languages formal arguments behave like local variables which get initialised on entry. See: argument.
- formal language — correct or polite words and phrases
- forward-looking — planning for or anticipating possible future events, conditions, etc.; progressive.
- fractionalizing — Present participle of fractionalize.
- franklin's gull — a black-headed North American gull, Larus pipixcan, feeding chiefly on insects.
- french marigold — a composite plant, Tagetes patula, of Mexico, having yellow flowers with red markings.
- french togoland — a former United Nations Trust Territory in W Africa, administered by France (1946–60), now the independent republic of Togo
- fringe festival — an unofficial, often unconventional, arts festival that is associated with another, larger festival
- gale-force wind — a wind of force seven to ten on the Beaufort scale or from 45 to 90 kilometres per hour
- 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.
- general officer — an officer ranking above colonel.
- geranium family — the plant family Geraniaceae, typified by herbaceous plants or small shrubs having lobed leaves, showy flowers, and slender, beak-shaped fruit, and including the crane's-bills, stork's-bills, and cultivated geraniums of the genus Pelargonium.
- 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.
- glandular fever — infectious mononucleosis.
- goal difference — the number of goals scored by a team minus the number of goals it has conceded
- 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.
- grecian profile — a profile distinguished by the absence of the hollow between the upper ridge of the nose and the forehead, thereby forming a straight line.
- greenfield park — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
- gulf of argolis — an inlet of the Aegean Sea, in the E Peloponnese
- gulf of taranto — an inlet of the Ionian Sea, in Apulia in SE Italy
- holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
- infrared galaxy — a galaxy that radiates strongly in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- irrefragability — How irrefragable something is.
- island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
- law of averages — a statistical principle formulated by Jakob Bernoulli to show a more or less predictable ratio between the number of random trials of an event and its occurrences.
- lay a finger on — to harm
- leapfrog attack — Use of userid and password information obtained illicitly from one host (e.g. downloading a file of account IDs and passwords, tapping TELNET, etc.) to compromise another host. Also, the act of TELNETting through one or more hosts in order to confuse a trace (a standard cracker procedure).
- leaves of grass — a book of poems (first edition, 1855; final edition, 1891–92) by Walt Whitman.
- legacy software — legacy system
- lift-drag ratio — the ratio of the lift to the drag of an airfoil.
- limiting factor — Physiology. the slowest, therefore rate-limiting, step in a process or reaction involving several steps.
- long-sufferance — long-suffering.
- mortgage relief — (formerly) a reduction of tax on income being used to pay off a mortgage
- photofluorogram — a recording on photographic film of images produced by a fluoroscopic examination.
- pilgrim fathers — the Pilgrims (of Plymouth Colony)
- poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
- quarantine flag — a yellow flag, designating the letter Q in the International Code of Signals: flown by itself to signify that a ship has no disease on board and requests a pratique, or flown with another flag to signify that there is disease on board ship.
- refamiliarizing — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
- refugee capital — money from abroad invested, esp for a short term, in the country offering the highest interest rate
- relapsing fever — one of a group of fevers characterized by relapses, occurring in many tropical countries, and caused by several species of spirochetes transmitted by several species of lice and ticks.
- reversing falls — a series of rapids in the Saint John River, New Brunswick, Canada, the flow of which regularly reverses itself owing to the force an incoming tide
- ridgefield park — a town in NE New Jersey.
- right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
- self-flattering — praise and exaggeration of one's own achievements coupled with a denial or glossing over of one's faults or failings; self-congratulation.
- self-generating — producing from within itself.
- self-generation — production or reproduction of something without the aid of an external agent; spontaneous generation.