16-letter words containing f, e, a, s, n
- theatre-francais — Comédie Française.
- thomas jefferson — Joseph, 1829–1905, U.S. actor.
- throw oneself at — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
- transfer company — a company that transports people or luggage for a relatively short distance, as between terminals of two railroad lines.
- transfer molding — a method of molding thermosetting plastic in which the plastic enters a closed mold from an adjoining chamber in which it has been softened.
- transfer payment — any payment made by a government for a purpose other than that of purchasing goods or services, as for welfare benefits.
- transfer pricing — the setting of a price for the transfer of raw materials, components, products, or services between the trading units of a large organization
- transfer station — a place where residential garbage and commercial wastes are compressed, baled, and loaded on vehicles for moving to disposal sites, as for landfill.
- transfer student — a student who moves from one institution or course to another at the same level (e.g. undergraduate)
- transverse flute — the normal orchestral flute, as opposed to the recorder (or fipple flute)
- velcro fastening — a fastening made of Velcro
- visiting fireman — an influential person accorded special treatment while visiting an organization, industry, city, etc.
- visual interface — (tool, text) (vi) /V-I/, /vi:/, *never* /siks/ A screen editor crufted together by Bill Joy for an early BSD release. vi became the de facto standard Unix editor and a nearly undisputed hacker favourite outside of MIT until the rise of Emacs after about 1984. It tends to frustrate new users no end, as it will neither take commands while expecting input text nor vice versa, and the default setup provides no indication of which mode the editor is in (one correspondent accordingly reports that he has often heard the editor's name pronounced /vi:l/). Nevertheless it is still widely used (about half the respondents in a 1991 Usenet poll preferred it), and even some Emacs fans resort to it as a mail editor and for small editing jobs (mainly because it starts up faster than the bulkier versions of Emacs). See holy wars.
- war of secession — American Civil War.
- welfare benefits — financial assistance; social security payment
- welfare payments — government benefits
- wire-transferred — to transmit (money or credit) by wire transfer.
- woman of letters — a woman engaged in literary pursuits, especially a professional writer.
- women's suffrage — right of adult females to vote
- writ of subpoena — a legal document commanding the attendance in court, as a witness, of the person on whom it is served, under a penalty