16-letter words containing f, i, n, e, r, s
- stonecrop family — the plant family Crassulaceae, characterized by succulent herbaceous plants and shrubs with simple, fleshy leaves, clusters of small flowers, and dry, dehiscent fruit, and including hen-and-chickens, houseleek, kalanchoe, live-forever, orpine, sedum, and stonecrop.
- street furniture — pieces of equipment, such as streetlights and pillar boxes, placed in the street for the benefit of the public
- sulfarsphenamine — a yellow, water-soluble, arsenic-containing powder, C 1 4 H 1 4 As 2 N 2 Na 2 O 8 S 2 , formerly used in the treatment of syphilis.
- sulfocarbanilide — thiocarbanilide.
- superfecundation — the fertilization of two or more ova discharged at the same ovulation by successive acts of sexual intercourse.
- superunification — a theory intended to describe the electromagnetic force, the strong force, the weak force, and gravity as a single, unified force.
- surface integral — the limit, as the norm of the partition of a given surface into sections of area approaches zero, of the sum of the product of the areas times the value of a given function of three variables at some point on each section.
- surface-printing — planography.
- swiss army knife — a small knife with blades and other tools, such as a nail file and corkscrew, all folding into the handle.
- the fact remains — You say the fact remains that something is the case when you want to emphasize that the situation must be accepted.
- the silver ferns — the women's international netball team of New Zealand
- the swiss-french — people from French-speaking Switzerland
- theatre-francais — Comédie Française.
- tower of silence — a circular stone platform, typically 30 feet (9.1 meter) in height, on which the Parsees of India leave their dead to be devoured by vultures.
- 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 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.
- twin-lens reflex — See under reflex camera. Abbreviation: TLR.
- user-defined key — a key on the keyboard of a computer that can be used to carry out any of a limited number of predefined actions as selected by the user
- 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
- west springfield — a city in SW Massachusetts, near Springfield.
- winchester rifle — a type of magazine rifle, first made in about 1866.
- windsor, duke of — (since 1917) a member of the present British royal family. Compare Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (def 1).
- wire-transferred — to transmit (money or credit) by wire transfer.
- 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