15-letter words containing d, i, s, c, f
- flood insurance — insurance covering loss or damage to property arising from a flood, flood tide, or the like.
- fluid mechanics — an applied science dealing with the basic principles of gaseous and liquid matter.
- food insecurity — an economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
- food processing — transforming raw materials into food
- frederick soddy — Frederick, 1877–1956, English chemist: Nobel prize 1921.
- french dressing — salad dressing prepared chiefly from oil, vinegar, and seasonings.
- friedrichshafen — a city in Baden-Württemberg, S Germany, on Lake Constance.
- gender-specific — for, characteristic of, or limited to either males or females: Left-handedness is not gender-specific.
- heralds' office — the official heraldic authority of Scotland.
- humidifications — Plural form of humidification.
- identifications — Plural form of identification.
- in difficulties — in distress, esp. financially
- line of descent — someone's line of descent is all the people they are descended from
- pacific islands — a U.S. trust territory in the Pacific Ocean, comprising the Mariana, Marshall, and Caroline Islands: approved by the United Nations 1947; since 1976 constituents of the trusteeship have established or moved toward self-government. 717 sq. mi. (1857 sq. km).
- quadric surface — a three-dimensional surface whose equation is a quadratic equation.
- scolopendriform — resembling scolopendra
- self-confidence — realistic confidence in one's own judgment, ability, power, etc.
- self-dedication — the act of dedicating.
- self-diagnostic — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
- self-discipline — discipline and training of oneself, usually for improvement: Acquiring the habit of promptness requires self-discipline.
- self-disclosure — the act or an instance of disclosing; exposure; revelation.
- self-inductance — inductance inducing an electromotive force in the same circuit in which the motivating change of current occurs, equal to the number of flux linkages per unit of current.
- self-indulgence — indulging one's own desires, passions, whims, etc., especially without restraint.
- self-inoculated — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
- self-medication — the use of medicine without medical supervision to treat one's own ailment.
- self-prescribed — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
- self-proclaimed — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- self-production — produced by oneself or itself.
- self-restricted — confined; limited.
- self-solicitude — the state of being solicitous; anxiety or concern.
- silicified wood — wood that has been changed into quartz by a replacement of the cellular structure of the wood by siliceous waters.
- stannic sulfide — a yellowish or brownish, water-insoluble powder, SnS 2 , usually used suspended in lacquer or varnish for gilding and bronzing metals, wood, paper, etc.; mosaic gold.
- sticky-fingered — given to thieving
- stiffneckedness — having a stiff neck; having torticollis.
- sulfanilic acid — a grayish-white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, the para form of C 6 H 7 NO 3 S, used chiefly as an intermediate in the manufacture of dyes.
- superconfidence — great or extreme confidence, overconfidence
- surface density — quantity, as of electric charge, per unit surface area.
- surface-ripened — (of cheese) ripened on the surface by molds or other microorganisms.
- the classifieds — a section of classified advertising in a publication