15-letter words containing f, a, t, e
- hair of the dog — an alcoholic drink taken as an antidote to a hangover
- half the battle — If you say that something is half the battle, you mean that it is the most important step towards achieving something.
- half wellington — a loose boot extending to just above the ankle and usually worn under the trousers.
- half-understood — partially understood
- half-wave plate — a crystal thin enough to cause a phase difference of 180° between the ordinary and extraordinary rays of polarized light, thereby changing the direction of the plane of polarization.
- halfheartedness — The characteristic of being half-hearted.
- have itchy feet — to be restless; have a desire to travel
- have the ear of — to be in a position to influence
- health benefits — positive effects on health
- heart of hearts — the depths of one's conscience or emotions
- heavenly father — a term used to address or refer to God
- hoffman estates — a city in NE Illinois.
- hour after hour — continuously for many hours
- housewifization — The process by which the division of labor has relegated women into housewives.
- hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
- hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- identifiability — to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of: to identify handwriting; to identify the bearer of a check.
- identifications — Plural form of identification.
- if the cap fits — the allusion or criticism seems to be appropriate to a particular person
- imperfect stage — a phase in the life cycle of certain fungi in which either no spores or asexual spores, as conidia, are produced.
- in fine feather — one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.
- in the hands of — under the control of
- in the shape of — You can use in the shape of to state exactly who or what you are referring to, immediately after referring to them in a general way.
- indefeasibility — The state or quality of being indefeasible, of being incapable of being defeated.
- indemnification — the act of indemnifying; state of being indemnified.
- ineffaceability — Quality of being ineffaceable.
- ineffectualness — Inefficacy.
- inertial fusion — a type of nuclear fusion in which the inertia of matter enables it to fuse by impact, as by pulses of laser radiation or high-energy charged particles, rather than by high temperature
- infeasible path — dead code
- inferior planet — either of the two planets whose orbits are inside the orbit of the earth: Venus and Mercury.
- infinite baffle — a loudspeaker enclosure that totally separates sound emanating from the rear of the speaker cone from sound emanating in front, so as to prevent mutual interference.
- infinitesimally — indefinitely or exceedingly small; minute: infinitesimal vessels in the circulatory system.
- inflation rider — An inflation rider is a rider that can be added to a long-term care insurance plan that adjusts the benefits over time to allow for inflation.
- information age — a period beginning about 1975 and characterized by the gathering and almost instantaneous transmission of vast amounts of information and by the rise of information-based industries.
- informativeness — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- infrastructures — Plural form of infrastructure.
- insignificative — not expressed or denoted by external signs
- intake manifold — a collection of tubes through which the fuel-air mixture flows from the carburetor or fuel injector to the intake valves of the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine.
- intensification — to make intense or more intense.
- inter-fraternal — of or befitting a brother or brothers; brotherly.
- interfascicular — pertaining to or forming a fascicle; fasciculate.
- interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
- interfraternity — a local or national organization of male students, primarily for social purposes, usually with secret initiation and rites and a name composed of two or three Greek letters.
- interstratified — Stratified with two alternating types of strata.
- interstratifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interstratify.
- irreformability — the state or condition of being irreformable
- irrefragability — How irrefragable something is.
- irvine dataflow — (language) (Always called "Id") A non-strict, single assignment language and incremental compiler developed by Arvind and Gostelow and used on MIT's Tagged-Token Dataflow Architecture and planned to be used on Motorola's Monsoon. See also Id Nouveau.
- joint favourite — one of two or more competitors in a race or contest that are considered equally likely to win
- justifiableness — Justifiability.