15-letter words containing f, e, t, o

in spite of sth — You use in spite of to introduce a fact which makes the rest of the statement you are making seem surprising.
in the event of — something that happens or is regarded as happening; an occurrence, especially one of some importance.
in the hands of — under the control of
in the light of — in view of, given
in the midst of — amid, among
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.
in the teeth of — (in most vertebrates) one of the hard bodies or processes usually attached in a row to each jaw, serving for the prehension and mastication of food, as weapons of attack or defense, etc., and in mammals typically composed chiefly of dentin surrounding a sensitive pulp and covered on the crown with enamel.
in the thick of — in the midst of: a fight, etc.
indemnification — the act of indemnifying; state of being indemnified.
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
inferior planet — either of the two planets whose orbits are inside the orbit of the earth: Venus and Mercury.
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.
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.
interferometers — Plural form of interferometer.
interferometric — Of or pertaining to interferometry or interferometers.
interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
interreflection — The illumination of an object by reflected light from other objects that are not light sources.
irreformability — the state or condition of being irreformable
irrespective of — regardless of sth
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.
isthmus of suez — a strip of land in NE Egypt, between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea: links Africa and Asia and is crossed by the Suez Canal
job's comforter — a person who unwittingly or maliciously depresses or discourages someone while attempting to be consoling.
joint favourite — one of two or more competitors in a race or contest that are considered equally likely to win
keep to oneself — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
kidasa software — (company) A company which develops project management software for Microsoft Windows.
knock-on effect — a chain reaction.
latensification — (in photography) the process of intensifying a latent image by the use of chemicals, extra exposure to light, or other means
latent function — any function of an institution or other social phenomenon that is unintentional and often unrecognized.
law of identity — the law that any proposition implies itself.
law of the mean — the theorem that for a function continuous on a closed interval and differentiable on the corresponding open interval, there is a point in the interval such that the difference in functional values at the endpoints is equal to the derivative evaluated at the particular point and multiplied by the difference in the endpoints.
law-enforcement — of police, anti-crime
lay of the land — the general state or condition of affairs under consideration; the facts of a situation: We asked a few questions to get the lay of the land.
lay oneself out — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
leadwort family — the plant family Plumbaginaceae, characterized by shrubs and herbaceous plants of seacoasts and semiarid regions, having basal or alternate leaves, spikelike clusters of tubular flowers, and dry, one-seeded fruit, and including leadwort, sea lavender, statice, and thrift.
leaf-footed bug — any of numerous plant-sucking or predaceous bugs of the family Coreidae, typically having leaflike legs: several species are pests of food crops.
league football — rugby league football
leapfrog attack — Use of userid and password information obtained illicitly from one host (e.g. downloading a file of account IDs and passwords, tapping TELNET, etc.) to compromise another host. Also, the act of TELNETting through one or more hosts in order to confuse a trace (a standard cracker procedure).
left outer join — outer join
legacy software — legacy system
legion of merit — a decoration ranking below the Silver Star and above the Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded to U.S. and foreign military personnel for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the U.S.
let yourself go — If you let yourself go, you relax and behave much more freely than usual.
lichenification — a leathery hardening of the skin, usually caused by chronic irritation.
lie of the land — the topography of the land
lifestyle block — a semi-rural property comprising a house and land for small-scale farming
line of descent — someone's line of descent is all the people they are descended from
linear function — linear transformation.
lofoten islands — group of Norwegian islands within the Arctic Circle, off the NW coast of Norway: c. 550 sq mi (1,424 sq km)

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