15-letter words containing f, a, n, i, g
- schiffs-reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
- self-abnegation — self-denial or self-sacrifice.
- self-afflicting — to distress with mental or bodily pain; trouble greatly or grievously: to be afflicted with arthritis.
- self-diagnostic — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
- 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.
- self-immolating — of, relating to, or tending toward self-immolation.
- self-lacerating — to tear roughly; mangle: The barbed wire lacerated his hands.
- self-regulating — adjusting, ruling, or governing itself without outside interference; operating or functioning without externally imposed controls or regulations: a self-regulating economy; the self-regulating market.
- self-regulation — control by oneself or itself, as in an economy, business organization, etc., especially such control as exercised independently of governmental supervision, laws, or the like.
- self-satisfying — effecting satisfaction to oneself.
- self-sustaining — self-supporting.
- self-validating — requiring no external confirmation, sanction, or validation.
- significatively — serving to signify.
- sleight of hand — skill in feats requiring quick and clever movements of the hands, especially for entertainment or deception, as jugglery, card or coin magic, etc.; legerdemain.
- speaking of sth — You can say speaking of something that has just been mentioned as a way of introducing a new topic which has some connection with that thing.
- steam reforming — a process in which methane from natural gas is heated, with steam, usually with a catalyst, to produce a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen used in organic synthesis and as a fuel
- sulfiting agent — sulfite (def 2).
- syngeneic graft — a tissue or organ transplanted from one member of a species to another, genetically identical member of the species, as a kidney transplanted from one identical twin to the other.
- teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
- thanks offering — an offering made as an expression of thanks to God
- tiffany setting — a setting, as in a ring, in which the stone is held with prongs.
- trading profits — profits made from the buying and selling of goods and services
- traffic calming — Traffic calming consists of measures designed to make roads safer, for example making them narrower or placing obstacles in them, so that drivers are forced to slow down.
- traffic manager — a person who supervises the transportation of goods for an employer.
- transfiguration — the act of transfiguring.
- ultracentrifuge — a high-speed centrifuge for subjecting sols or solutions to forces many times that of gravity and producing concentration differences depending on the weight of the micelle or molecule.
- van diemen gulf — an inlet of the Timor Sea in N Australia, in the Northern Territory
- vegetable knife — a knife designed to cut up vegetables
- vulgar fraction — common fraction.
- walking catfish — an Asian catfish, Clarias batrachus, that can survive out of water and move overland from one body of water to another: introduced into Florida.
- weatherproofing — Present participle of weatherproof.
- witch of agnesi — a plane curve symmetrical about the y- axis and asymptotic to the x- axis, given by the equation x 2 y =4 a 2 (2 a − y).