15-letter words containing f, i
- high-definition — High-definition television or technology is a digital system that gives a much clearer picture than traditional television systems.
- high-fibre diet — a diet which contains a lot of fibre, supposed to help keep your digestive system healthy
- hit the buffers — to finish or be stopped, esp unexpectedly
- holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
- holiday feeling — the positive feeling people experience while on holiday and during holiday periods such as the Christmas period
- holiday traffic — increased road traffic during holiday periods and public holidays
- 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.
- hull efficiency — the ratio of the quantity of work required to tow a certain hull at a given speed to that required to drive it with a certain propeller: used in propeller design.
- humidifications — Plural form of humidification.
- hydraulic fluid — a fluid, usually of low viscosity, as oil, used in a hydraulic system.
- hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
- hyperfemininity — the quality of being feminine; womanliness.
- hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- i beg to differ — You say 'I beg to differ' when you are politely emphasizing that you disagree with someone.
- identifiability — to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of: to identify handwriting; to identify the bearer of a check.
- identifications — Plural form of identification.
- 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.
- if the cap fits — the allusion or criticism seems to be appropriate to a particular person
- immunodeficient — Exhibiting immunodeficiency.
- immunodiffusion — any of various analytical techniques that involve antigen and antibody solutions diffusing toward each other in a gel until antibody binds specifically to antigen to form a precipitate.
- imperfect stage — a phase in the life cycle of certain fungi in which either no spores or asexual spores, as conidia, are produced.
- imperfect-rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
- in (the) future — You use in future when saying what will happen from now on, which will be different from what has previously happened. The form in the future is sometimes used instead, especially in American English.
- in a family way — pregnant; with child
- in deference to — out of regard or respect for (a person or the person's position or wishes)
- in dependent of — not influenced or controlled by others in matters of opinion, conduct, etc.; thinking or acting for oneself: an independent thinker.
- in difficulties — in distress, esp. financially
- in fine feather — one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.
- in line of duty — in the performance of authorized or prescribed military duty
- in nothing flat — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
- 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 event of — something that happens or is regarded as happening; an occurrence, especially one of some importance.
- in the hands of — under the control of
- in the light of — in view of, given
- 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.
- in the teeth of — (in most vertebrates) one of the hard bodies or processes usually attached in a row to each jaw, serving for the prehension and mastication of food, as weapons of attack or defense, etc., and in mammals typically composed chiefly of dentin surrounding a sensitive pulp and covered on the crown with enamel.
- in the thick of — in the midst of: a fight, etc.
- inch of mercury — a unit of atmospheric pressure, being the pressure equal to that exerted by a column of mercury one inch high under standard conditions of temperature and gravity: 33.864 millibars. Abbreviation: in. Hg.
- indefeasibility — The state or quality of being indefeasible, of being incapable of being defeated.
- indefectibility — The quality of being indefectible.
- indefensibility — The quality or state of not being defensible.
- indemnification — the act of indemnifying; state of being indemnified.
- ineffaceability — Quality of being ineffaceable.
- ineffectiveness — not effective; not producing results; ineffectual: ineffective efforts; ineffective remedies.
- ineffectualness — Inefficacy.
- inefficaciously — Without efficacy or effect.
- inertial fusion — a type of nuclear fusion in which the inertia of matter enables it to fuse by impact, as by pulses of laser radiation or high-energy charged particles, rather than by high temperature