15-letter words containing f, i, n, e, s, d
- floating screed — Building Trades. screed (def 3).
- flood insurance — insurance covering loss or damage to property arising from a flood, flood tide, or the like.
- fluid mechanics — an applied science dealing with the basic principles of gaseous and liquid matter.
- fob destination — FOB destination is a shipping term indicating that ownership of goods passes at delivery to their destination, and the seller has total responsibility until then.
- food insecurity — an economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
- food processing — transforming raw materials into food
- foresightedness — care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
- french dressing — salad dressing prepared chiefly from oil, vinegar, and seasonings.
- fresh-air fiend — a person who enjoys being outdoors or having good ventilation when indoors
- friedrichshafen — a city in Baden-Württemberg, S Germany, on Lake Constance.
- ft-se 100 index — Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Index
- fully fashioned — (of stockings, knitwear, etc) shaped and seamed so as to fit closely
- fundamentalists — Plural form of fundamentalist.
- gender-specific — for, characteristic of, or limited to either males or females: Left-handedness is not gender-specific.
- golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
- goodness of fit — the extent to which observed sample values of a variable approximate to values derived from a theoretical density, often measured by a chi-square test
- greenfield site — a site located in a rural area which has not previously been built on
- identifications — Plural form of identification.
- in difficulties — in distress, esp. financially
- in the hands of — under the control of
- in the midst of — amid, among
- indefeasibility — The state or quality of being indefeasible, of being incapable of being defeated.
- indefensibility — The quality or state of not being defensible.
- interstratified — Stratified with two alternating types of strata.
- island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
- jefferson davis — Alexander Jackson, 1803–92, U.S. architect.
- kingdom of ends — (in Kantian ethics) a metaphorical realm to which belong those persons acting and being acted upon in accordance with moral law.
- land of promise — Promised Land.
- line of apsides — a line joining the lower and higher apsides, forming the major axis of the orbit
- line of descent — someone's line of descent is all the people they are descended from
- lofoten islands — group of Norwegian islands within the Arctic Circle, off the NW coast of Norway: c. 550 sq mi (1,424 sq km)
- longshore drift — beach drift.
- maid of orléans — Saint ("the Maid of Orléans") 1412?–31, French national heroine and martyr who raised the siege of Orléans.
- odoriferousness — The quality of being odoriferous.
- personal friend — a person who is a friend, rather than a colleague or acquaintance
- plumbers-friend — Machinery. a pistonlike reciprocating part moving within the cylinder of a pump or hydraulic device.
- ranfurly shield — (in New Zealand) the premier rugby trophy, competed for annually by provincial teams
- ray-finned fish — any of various bony fishes of the subclass Actinopterygii, having strong slender rays, excluding the coelacanth and lungfish.
- read oneself in — to assume possession of a benefice by publicly reading the Thirty-nine Articles
- ready-furnished — (of a room, house, office, etc) fitted with furniture before being rented or sold
- rhodesian front — the governing party in Zimbabwe (then called Rhodesia) 1962–78
- round whitefish — a whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum, found in northern North America and Siberia, having silvery sides and a dark bronze back.
- saw-edged knife — a knife with a serrated edge
- scolopendriform — resembling scolopendra
- self-admiration — a feeling of wonder, pleasure, or approval.
- self-confidence — realistic confidence in one's own judgment, ability, power, etc.
- self-dedication — the act of dedicating.
- self-definition — the act of defining, or of making something definite, distinct, or clear: We need a better definition of her responsibilities.
- self-diagnostic — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
- self-discipline — discipline and training of oneself, usually for improvement: Acquiring the habit of promptness requires self-discipline.