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16-letter words containing f, i, t

  • standoff missile — a missile capable of striking a distant target after launch by an aircraft outside the range of missile defences
  • state of affairs — situation
  • stationary front — a front between warm and cold air masses that is moving very slowly or not at all.
  • step out of line — to fail to conform to expected standards, attitudes, etc
  • stephen f austin — Alfred, 1835–1913, English poet: poet laureate 1896–1913.
  • stocking stuffer — a small, usually inexpensive gift that is placed with others in a Christmas stocking.
  • 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
  • studentification — the renting of particular accommodation exclusively to students
  • subjectification — to make subjective.
  • superfecundation — the fertilization of two or more ova discharged at the same ovulation by successive acts of sexual intercourse.
  • superficialities — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • 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.
  • sutton coldfield — a town in central England, in Birmingham unitary authority, West Midlands; a residential suburb of Birmingham. Pop: 105 452 (2001)
  • take (to) flight — to run away; flee
  • take the lid off — to make startling or spectacular revelations about
  • tanagra figurine — a small terra-cotta statuette produced from the late 4th to the 3rd century b.c. in Tanagra, Boeotia, and found chiefly in tombs.
  • tariff agreement — an agreement between countries or geographical areas relating to taxes levied by governments on imports or occasionally exports for purposes of protection, support of the balance of payments, or the raising of revenue
  • teleconferencing — a business meeting, educational session, etc., conducted among participants in different locations via telecommunications equipment. Compare videoconference.
  • terms of service — the contract for acceptable use of digital media as defined by the developer. Abbreviation: TOS, ToS.
  • texture modifier — a substance that is added to food products to increase viscosity
  • thallium sulfate — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, Tl 2 SO 4 , used chiefly as an insecticide and rodenticide.
  • the arabian gulf — the arm of the Arabian Sea between SW Iran and Arabia; important for the oilfields on its shores
  • 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 first couple — the US president and their spouse
  • the first family — a President's family
  • the first fruits — The first fruits or the first fruit of a project or activity are its earliest results or profits.
  • the foreign-born — immigrants of a country
  • the hill of tara — the historic seat of the ancient Irish kings, in Co Meath near Dublin
  • the silver ferns — the women's international netball team of New Zealand
  • the swiss-french — people from French-speaking Switzerland
  • the welsh office — (formerly) a department of the British government with responsibility for Welsh policies. It was replaced by the Wales office in 1999.
  • the-little-foxes — a play (1939) by Lillian Hellman.
  • theatre-francais — Comédie Française.
  • think nothing of — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
  • throat infection — an infection or inflammation of the throat or pharynx
  • tierra del fuego — a group of islands at the S tip of South America, separated from the mainland by the Strait of Magellan: jointly owned by Argentina and Chile; boundary disputed. 27,476 sq. mi. (71,165 sq. km).
  • time out of mind — time immemorial (def 1).
  • to be off limits — If an area or a place is off limits, you are not allowed to go there.
  • to foot the bill — If you have to foot the bill for something, you have to pay for it.
  • to lift a finger — If you say that a person does not lift a finger or raise a finger to do something, especially to help someone, you are critical of them because they do nothing.
  • to lose sight of — If you lose sight of an important aspect of something, you no longer pay attention to it because you are worrying about less important things.
  • to play for time — If you play for time, you try to make something happen more slowly, because you do not want it to happen or because you need time to think about what to do if it happens.
  • toing and froing — going back and forth
  • tomato fruitworm — corn earworm.
  • 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.
  • trailing fuchsia — a shrub, Fuchsia procumbens, of the evening primrose family, native to New Zealand, having long-stalked leaves and drooping, orange-and-purple flowers, used in hanging baskets.
  • train of thought — sequence of ideas
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