19-letter words containing f, a, t, p, i
- self-representation — the act of representing.
- shopping facilities — shops or other retail services
- south pacific ocean — the part of the Pacific Ocean extending S from the Equator to the Antarctic continent.
- spanish west africa — a former overseas territory of Spain in NW Africa: divided in 1958 into the overseas provinces of Ifni and Spanish Sahara
- specific characters — the persistent features that distinguish one species from all others
- specific resistance — resistivity (def 2).
- specific-resistance — the power or property of resistance.
- specular reflection — Specular reflection is reflection of heat or light in which the angles of different parts of the surface are important.
- speculative fiction — a broad literary genre encompassing any fiction with supernatural, fantastical, or futuristic elements
- spirit of hartshorn — a colorless, pungent, suffocating, aqueous solution of about 28.5 percent ammonia gas: used chiefly as a detergent, for removing stains and extracting certain vegetable coloring agents, and in the manufacture of ammonium salts.
- splinterproof glass — glass that is designed not to form sharp splinters should it be shattered
- spread oneself thin — to draw, stretch, or open out, especially over a flat surface, as something rolled or folded (often followed by out).
- superannuation fund — a fund used for paying pensions
- supercritical fluid — A supercritical fluid is a fluid at a temperature and pressure at which there is no difference between liquid and gas.
- surface effect ship — a large, ship-size air cushion vehicle operated over water.
- teaching fellowship — a fellowship providing a student in a graduate school with free tuition and expenses and stipulating that the student assume some teaching duties in return.
- the patriotic front — a political party in Zimbabwe, founded in 2001 as a coalition of two communist parties, the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU) and the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), which had worked together to fight against White minority rule in Rhodesia
- the pilgrim fathers — the English Puritans who sailed on the Mayflower to New England, where they founded Plymouth Colony in SE Massachusetts (1620)
- to tear a strip off — If you tear a strip off someone or if you tear them off a strip, you speak to them angrily and criticize them severely.
- tropic of capricorn — Astronomy. the Goat, a zodiacal constellation between Sagittarius and Aquarius.
- wage-push inflation — an inflationary trend caused by wage increases that in turn cause rises in production costs and prices.
- whorfian hypothesis — Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.