16-letter words containing f, i
- sliding friction — frictional resistance to relative movement of surfaces on loaded contact
- small/fine print — The small print or the fine print of something such as an advertisement or a contract consists of the technical details and legal conditions, which are often printed in much smaller letters than the rest of the text.
- smelting furnace — an industrial oven used to heat ore in order to extract metal
- snoqualmie falls — falls of the Snoqualmie River, in W Washington. 270 feet (82 meters) high.
- soapberry family — the plant family Sapindaceae, characterized by chiefly tropical trees, shrubs, or herbaceous vines having compound leaves, clustered flowers, and berrylike, fleshy, or capsular fruit, and including the balloon vine, golden rain tree, litchi, and soapberry.
- society of jesus — a member of a Roman Catholic religious order (Society of Jesus) founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1534.
- sodium bisulfate — a colorless crystalline compound, NaHSO 4 , soluble in water: used in dyeing, in the manufacture of cement, paper, soap, and an acid-type cleaner.
- sodium bisulfite — Sodium bisulfite is a crystalline compound used as an antioxidant and stabilizing agent.
- soft commodities — nonmetal commodities such as cocoa, sugar, and grains, bought and sold on a futures market
- soft furnishings — home fabrics
- soft in the head — stupid or foolish
- software library — a collection of programs that are used to develop software
- sole beneficiary — the only beneficiary
- something fierce — desperately, intensely
- south plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
- speak for itself — be self-evident
- species-specific — associated with or limited to one species only.
- specific gravity — the ratio of the density of any substance to the density of some other substance taken as standard, water being the standard for liquids and solids, and hydrogen or air being the standard for gases.
- specific impulse — a measure, usually in seconds, of the efficiency with which a rocket engine utilizes its propellants, equal to the number of pounds of thrust produced per pound of propellant burned per second.
- specific surface — The specific surface is the ratio of a particle's surface area to its volume or mass.
- spiny-rayed fish — any of various fishes, as basses and perches, that have sharp, often pointed and usually rigid fin spines.
- split infinitive — an expression in which there is a word or phrase, especially an adverb or adverbial phrase, between to and its accompanying verb form in an infinitive, as in to readily understand.
- spreading factor — a substance, as hyaluronidase, that promotes the diffusion of a material through body tissues
- spring snowflake — a European amaryllidaceous plant, Leucojum vernum, with white nodding bell-shaped flowers
- staffing officer — someone who recruits, hires, and ensures the interests of staff and employees in an organization
- 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.
- sulfanilyl group — the para form of the group C 6 H 6 NO 2 S–, derived from sulfanilic acid.
- 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.
- 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)
- swiss army knife — a small knife with blades and other tools, such as a nail file and corkscrew, all folding into the handle.
- 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.