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15-letter words containing f, i, n, e, s, h

  • golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
  • health benefits — positive effects on health
  • housewifization — The process by which the division of labor has relegated women into housewives.
  • housing benefit — In Britain, housing benefit is money that the government gives to people with no income or very low incomes to pay for part or all of their rent.
  • if nothing else — You can say 'if nothing else' to indicate that what you are mentioning is, in your opinion, the only good thing in a particular situation.
  • 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 hands of — under the control of
  • 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.
  • infeasible path — dead code
  • insight-fulness — characterized by or displaying insight; perceptive.
  • knife-sharpener — a kitchen implement that is used to sharpen knives
  • longshore drift — beach drift.
  • of one's choice — The thing or person of your choice is the one that you choose.
  • one for his nob — the call made with this jack, scoring one point
  • ranfurly shield — (in New Zealand) the premier rugby trophy, competed for annually by provincial teams
  • ray of sunshine — beam of sunlight
  • ray-finned fish — any of various bony fishes of the subclass Actinopterygii, having strong slender rays, excluding the coelacanth and lungfish.
  • 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
  • ronne ice shelf — an ice barrier in Antarctica, in SW Weddell Sea, bordered by Ellsworth Land on the NW and Berkner Island on the E.
  • round whitefish — a whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum, found in northern North America and Siberia, having silvery sides and a dark bronze back.
  • saffian leather — leather made of sheepskin or goatskin tanned with sumac and usually dyed a bright color
  • schiffs-reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
  • schlieffen plan — a plan intended to ensure German victory over a Franco-Russian alliance by holding off Russia with minimal strength and swiftly defeating France by a massive flanking movement through the Low Countries, devised by Alfred, Count von Schlieffen (1833–1913) in 1905
  • self-banishment — to expel from or relegate to a country or place by authoritative decree; condemn to exile: He was banished to Devil's Island.
  • self-censorship — the act or practice of censoring.
  • self-enrichment — an act of enriching.
  • self-exhibition — an exhibiting, showing, or presenting to view.
  • self-hypnotized — hypnotized by oneself.
  • self-punishment — the act of punishing.
  • self-worthiness — the sense of one's own value or worth as a person; self-esteem; self-respect.
  • ship's manifest — a list of the shipments or cargo that a vessel is carrying
  • sleight of hand — skill in feats requiring quick and clever movements of the hands, especially for entertainment or deception, as jugglery, card or coin magic, etc.; legerdemain.
  • spanish trefoil — alfalfa.
  • speaking of sth — You can say speaking of something that has just been mentioned as a way of introducing a new topic which has some connection with that thing.
  • spotted sunfish — a sunfish, Lepomis punctatus, inhabiting streams from South Carolina to Florida, having the body marked with longitudinal rows of spots.
  • street fighting — violent and illegal fighting between individuals or groups
  • thanks offering — an offering made as an expression of thanks to God
  • the first thing — even one thing
  • the first-named — something that is specified or named first
  • theft insurance — insurance against loss or damage of property resulting from theft.
  • thermodiffusion — thermal diffusion.
  • thing-in-itself — reality as it is apart from experience; what remains to be postulated after space, time, and all the categories of the understanding are assigned to consciousness. Compare noumenon (def 3).
  • tightfistedness — the quality or state of being tightfisted
  • 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.
  • trout fisherman — a fisherman who catches trout
  • twist the knife — to make a bad situation worse in a deliberately malicious way
  • wish fulfilment — (in Freudian psychology) any successful attempt to fulfil a wish stemming from the unconscious mind, whether in fact, in fantasy, or by such disguised means as sublimation
  • witch of agnesi — a plane curve symmetrical about the y- axis and asymptotic to the x- axis, given by the equation x 2 y =4 a 2 (2 a − y).
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