17-letter words containing f, i, c, e, s
- teaching software — computer software for use in providing online education
- the bag of tricks — every device; everything
- the carboniferous — the Carboniferous period or rock system
- the facts of life — the details of sexual behaviour and reproduction, esp as told to children
- the life sciences — sciences such as biology, botany, physiology, zoology which are concerned with the study of living organisms
- the south pacific — the part of the Pacific Ocean to the south of the equator
- traffic diversion — a special route arranged for traffic to follow when the normal route cannot be used
- transfer function — The transfer function of a circuit is the ratio of the response to the input.
- unclassified road — a road that has not been given a grade because it is of a basic standard
- unofficial strike — a strike that is not approved by the strikers' trade union
- unselfconsciously — in an unselfconscious manner
- vermiform process — vermiform appendix.
- welfare economics — a branch of economics concerned with improving human welfare and social conditions chiefly through the optimum distribution of wealth, the relief or reduction of unemployment, etc.
- year of confusion — (in ancient Rome) the year of 445 days preceding the introduction, in 46 b.c., of the Julian calendar: lengthened to compensate for the cumulative errors of the Roman calendar.