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15-letter words containing f, a, n, l, e, t

  • self-initiative — an introductory act or step; leading action: to take the initiative in making friends.
  • 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-ionization — to separate or change into ions.
  • self-lacerating — to tear roughly; mangle: The barbed wire lacerated his hands.
  • self-laceration — the result of lacerating; a rough, jagged tear.
  • self-management — the act or manner of managing; handling, direction, or control.
  • self-medication — the use of medicine without medical supervision to treat one's own ailment.
  • self-motivation — initiative to undertake or continue a task or activity without another's prodding or supervision.
  • self-mutilation — to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts: Vandals mutilated the painting.
  • 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-revelation — disclosure of one's private feelings, thoughts, etc., especially when unintentional.
  • self-satisfying — effecting satisfaction to oneself.
  • self-sustaining — self-supporting.
  • self-sustenance — means of sustaining life; nourishment.
  • self-validating — requiring no external confirmation, sanction, or validation.
  • selfabandonment — absence or lack of personal restraint.
  • semi-functional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • significatively — serving to signify.
  • simple fraction — a ratio of two integers.
  • 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.
  • snowball effect — a process of continuously accelerating change in size, importance, etc
  • social benefits — the social welfare provision made available to those in need
  • spanish trefoil — alfalfa.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • sulfiting agent — sulfite (def 2).
  • sunflower state — Kansas (used as a nickname).
  • teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
  • tentaculiferous — having tentacles
  • tetrafunctional — pertaining to molecules or groups that can bond at four sites.
  • the black ferns — the women's international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
  • time and a half — a rate of pay for overtime work equal to one and one half times the regular hourly wage.
  • track and field — athletics events
  • track-and-field — of, relating to, or participating in the sports of running, pole-vaulting, broad-jumping, etc.: a track-and-field athlete.
  • transfer lounge — the place in an airport where you wait for a transfer from one flight to another
  • transferability — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
  • trifluoperazine — a compound, C 21 H 24 F 3 N 3 S, used as an antipsychotic.
  • 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.
  • unfamiliarities — not familiar; not acquainted with or conversant about: to be unfamiliar with a subject.
  • uninformatively — in an uninformative manner
  • unverifiability — the quality or state of being unverifiable
  • vegetable knife — a knife designed to cut up vegetables
  • velcro fastener — a fastener made of Velcro
  • venus's-flytrap — a carnivorous plant, Dionaea muscipula, native to bogs of North and South Carolina, having roundish leaves with two lobes that close like a trap when certain delicate hairs on them are irritated, as by a fly: the range is now reduced, though the plants are still locally abundant.
  • viral infection — disease caused by a virus
  • white zinfandel — a medium-sweet rosé wine made from zinfandel grapes.
  • wrongful arrest — the act of arresting someone without proper reason
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