15-letter words containing f, a, n, i, o
- 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.
- stand in awe of — to respect and fear
- station officer — a person who is in charge of a fire station
- 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
- strait of canso — a channel in Canada, between the Nova Scotia mainland and S Cape Breton Island
- strait of tiran — a strait between the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea. Length: 16 km (10 miles). Width: 8 km (5 miles)
- streamline flow — the flow of a fluid past an object such that the velocity at any fixed point in the fluid is constant or varies in a regular manner.
- subprofessional — being below professional standards: subprofessional health care.
- surface tension — the elasticlike force existing in the surface of a body, especially a liquid, tending to minimize the area of the surface, caused by asymmetries in the intermolecular forces between surface molecules.
- syllabification — to form or divide into syllables.
- tank foundation — A tank foundation is a base which is designed to support the weight of oil tanks and contain spillage.
- teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
- tentaculiferous — having tentacles
- tetrafunctional — pertaining to molecules or groups that can bond at four sites.
- thanks offering — an offering made as an expression of thanks to God
- the reformation — the 16th-cent. religious movement that aimed at reforming the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in establishing the Protestant churches
- three of a kind — a set of three cards of the same denomination.
- to make friends — If you make friends with someone, you begin a friendship with them. You can also say that two people make friends.
- towers of hanoi — (games) A classic computer science problem, invented by Edouard Lucas in 1883, often used as an example of recursion. "In the great temple at Benares, says he, beneath the dome which marks the centre of the world, rests a brass plate in which are fixed three diamond needles, each a cubit high and as thick as the body of a bee. On one of these needles, at the creation, God placed sixty-four discs of pure gold, the largest disc resting on the brass plate, and the others getting smaller and smaller up to the top one. This is the Tower of Bramah. Day and night unceasingly the priests transfer the discs from one diamond needle to another according to the fixed and immutable laws of Bramah, which require that the priest on duty must not move more than one disc at a time and that he must place this disc on a needle so that there is no smaller disc below it. When the sixty-four discs shall have been thus transferred from the needle on which at the creation God placed them to one of the other needles, tower, temple, and Brahmins alike will crumble into dust, and with a thunderclap the world will vanish." The recursive solution is: Solve for n-1 discs recursively, then move the remaining largest disc to the free needle. Note that there is also a non-recursive solution: On odd-numbered moves, move the smallest sized disk clockwise. On even-numbered moves, make the single other move which is possible.
- trading profits — profits made from the buying and selling of goods and services
- traffic control — management of road use
- traffic offence — a violation of traffic regulations, such as breaking the speed limit
- transfer window — the period during the year in which a football club can transfer players from other teams into their own
- transfiguration — the act of transfiguring.
- trifluoperazine — a compound, C 21 H 24 F 3 N 3 S, used as an antipsychotic.
- trout fisherman — a fisherman who catches trout
- ultrafiltration — Physical Chemistry. a filter for purifying sols, having a membrane with pores sufficiently small to prevent the passage of the suspended particles.
- unaffordability — that can be afforded; believed to be within one's financial means: attractive new cars at affordable prices.
- uninformatively — in an uninformative manner
- unit of account — the function of money that enables the user to keep accounts, value transactions, etc
- usman dan fodio — 1754–1817, African mystic and revolutionary leader, who created a Muslim state in Nigeria
- viral infection — disease caused by a virus
- vulgar fraction — common fraction.
- warrant officer — (in the U.S. Armed Forces) an officer of one of four grades ranking above enlisted personnel and below commissioned officers.
- weatherproofing — Present participle of weatherproof.
- windfall profit — a profit that arises thanks to an external event over which the person profiting had no control
- 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).
- yeast infection — candida: genital inflammation