18-letter words containing f, l, e, t, y
- quality of service — (communications, networking) (QoS) The performance properties of a network service, possibly including throughput, transit delay, priority. Some protocols allow packets or streams to include QoS requirements.
- quarry-tiled floor — a floor covered with square or diamond-shaped unglazed floor tiles
- range of stability — the angle to the perpendicular through which a vessel may be heeled without losing the ability to right itself.
- reflection density — a measure of the extent to which a surface reflects light or other electromagnetic radiation, equal to the logarithm to base ten of the reciprocal of the reflectance
- refrigerated lorry — a lorry which is chilled in the back as for storing food
- relative frequency — the ratio of the number of times an event occurs to the number of occasions on which it might occur in the same period.
- safety regulations — regulations or rules that are put in place to ensure a product, event, etc, is safe and not dangerous
- self-contradictory — an act or instance of contradicting oneself or itself.
- self-deprecatingly — in a self-deprecating manner
- sodium hyposulfite — sodium thiosulfate.
- spotted flycatcher — a European woodland songbird, Muscicapa striata, with a greyish-brown streaked plumage: family Muscicapidae (Old World flycatchers)
- the family compact — the ruling oligarchy in Upper Canada in the early 19th century
- the fourth of july — a holiday in the United States, traditionally celebrated with fireworks: the day of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776
- theater of cruelty — a form of surrealist theater originated by Antonin Artaud and emphasizing the cruelty of human existence by portraying sadistic acts and intense suffering.
- theatre of cruelty — a type of theatre advocated by Antonin Artaud in Le Théâtre et son double that seeks to communicate to its audience a sense of pain, suffering, and evil, using gesture, movement, sound, and symbolism rather than language
- thermal efficiency — the ratio of the work output of a heat engine to the heat input expressed in the same units of energy.
- to play favourites — to display favouritism
- too clever by half — If someone is too clever by half, they are very clever and they show their cleverness in a way that annoys other people.
- ultralow frequency — an electromagnetic wave with a frequency between 300 and 3000 hertz. Abbreviation: ULF, ulf.
- university faculty — a division within a university comprising one subject area, or a number of related subject areas
- where you left off — If something continues from where it left off, it starts happening again at the point where it had previously stopped.
- wildlife sanctuary — an area where wild animals and plants are protected
- witch hazel family — the plant family Hamamelidaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having alternate, simple leaves, flowers in clusters or heads, and fruit in the form of a double-beaked woody capsule, and including the sweet gum, witch alder, and witch hazel.