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15-letter words containing f, e, r

  • summary offence — an offence that is triable in a magistrates' court
  • summer flounder — a flounder, Paralichthys dentatus, inhabiting shallow waters from Cape Cod to South Carolina, valued as food.
  • sunflower seeds — the seeds of a sunflower, which can be eaten
  • sunflower state — Kansas (used as a nickname).
  • super-efficient — performing or functioning in the best possible manner with the least waste of time and effort; having and using requisite knowledge, skill, and industry; competent; capable: a reliable, efficient assistant.
  • superconfidence — great or extreme confidence, overconfidence
  • superefficiency — the quality or condition of being superefficient
  • superficialness — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • superfluousness — being more than is sufficient or required; excessive.
  • surface density — quantity, as of electric charge, per unit surface area.
  • surface grammar — grammar understood at the level of normal communication, rather than at the underlying level of 'deep' semantic and syntactic analysis
  • 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.
  • surface-ripened — (of cheese) ripened on the surface by molds or other microorganisms.
  • sylvian fissure — lateral fissure.
  • syngeneic graft — a tissue or organ transplanted from one member of a species to another, genetically identical member of the species, as a kidney transplanted from one identical twin to the other.
  • take for a ride — to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
  • take it from me — You can say 'take it from me' to tell someone that you are absolutely sure that what you are saying is correct, and that they should believe you.
  • tar and feather — any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
  • tariff barriers — a barrier to trade between certain countries or geographical areas which takes the form of abnormally high taxes levied by a government on imports or occasionally exports for purposes of protection, support of the balance of payments, or the raising of revenue
  • tax certificate — a document issued to the purchaser of property sold for unpaid taxes attesting to the holder's right to eventual receipt of the title deed.
  • tentaculiferous — having tentacles
  • tetrafunctional — pertaining to molecules or groups that can bond at four sites.
  • tetrahydrofuran — a clear liquid, C 4 H 8 O, soluble in water and organic solvents, used as a solvent for resins, in polymerizations and as a chemical intermediate.
  • thanks offering — an offering made as an expression of thanks to God
  • the affirmative — the side in a debate that supports the proposition
  • the black ferns — the women's international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
  • the confederacy — the league of Southern states that seceded from the U.S. in 1860 & 1861; Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., La., Miss., N.C., S.C., Tenn., Tex., & Va.
  • the crucifixion — the crucifying of Christ at Calvary, regarded by Christians as the culminating redemptive act of his ministry
  • the first thing — even one thing
  • the first-named — something that is specified or named first
  • the reformation — the 16th-cent. religious movement that aimed at reforming the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in establishing the Protestant churches
  • the rule of law — the principle that no one is above the law and that everyone must follow the law
  • the second form — the second year of secondary school
  • the way forward — how to progress, what to do next
  • theatrical film — a film made for exhibition in theaters, as distinguished from one made for television.
  • theft insurance — insurance against loss or damage of property resulting from theft.
  • theory of games — game theory.
  • theory of types — a theory advanced by Bertrand Russell to avoid the liar paradox, Russell's paradox, etc, in which a class of expressions or of the entities they represent can all enter into the same syntactic relations
  • thermodiffusion — thermal diffusion.
  • think better of — to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.
  • three of a kind — a set of three cards of the same denomination.
  • three-four time — music: 3/4 time signature
  • time after time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
  • time difference — the difference in clock time between two or more different time zones
  • to go for broke — If you go for broke, you take the most extreme or risky of the possible courses of action in order to try and achieve success.
  • to hit the roof — If you hit the roof or go through the roof, you become very angry indeed, and usually show your anger by shouting at someone.
  • to make friends — If you make friends with someone, you begin a friendship with them. You can also say that two people make friends.
  • toreador fresco — a mural (c1500 b.c.) from Minoan Crete.
  • tower of london — a historic fortress in London, England: originally a royal palace, later a prison, now an arsenal and museum.
  • 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.
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