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15-letter words containing f, l, i, n, t

  • self-sufficient — able to supply one's own or its own needs without external assistance: The nation grows enough grain to be self-sufficient.
  • self-suggestion — the act of suggesting.
  • self-supporting — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
  • self-sustaining — self-supporting.
  • self-validating — requiring no external confirmation, sanction, or validation.
  • self-worthiness — the sense of one's own value or worth as a person; self-esteem; self-respect.
  • semi-functional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • significatively — serving to signify.
  • simple fraction — a ratio of two integers.
  • single-cut file — a file with teeth in one direction only: used for filing soft material
  • 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.
  • slumpflationary — of or relating to slumpflation
  • social benefits — the social welfare provision made available to those in need
  • sons of liberty — any of several patriotic societies, originally secret, that opposed the Stamp Act and thereafter supported moves for American independence.
  • spanish trefoil — alfalfa.
  • stannic sulfide — a yellowish or brownish, water-insoluble powder, SnS 2 , usually used suspended in lacquer or varnish for gilding and bronzing metals, wood, paper, etc.; mosaic gold.
  • stocking filler — A stocking filler is a small present that is suitable for putting in a Christmas stocking.
  • streamline flow — the flow of a fluid past an object such that the velocity at any fixed point in the fluid is constant or varies in a regular manner.
  • sulfiting agent — sulfite (def 2).
  • supporting film — a film that accompanies the main feature film in a film programme
  • syllabification — to form or divide into syllables.
  • teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
  • television film — a feature-length film that is made specifically to be shown on television
  • tentaculiferous — having tentacles
  • tetrafunctional — pertaining to molecules or groups that can bond at four sites.
  • 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).
  • think little of — small in size; not big; not large; tiny: a little desk in the corner of the room.
  • time and a half — a rate of pay for overtime work equal to one and one half times the regular hourly wage.
  • top-of-the-line — being the best and usually the most expensive of its kind: The company previewed its top-of-the-line carpeting.
  • track and field — athletics events
  • track-and-field — of, relating to, or participating in the sports of running, pole-vaulting, broad-jumping, etc.: a track-and-field athlete.
  • traffic calming — Traffic calming consists of measures designed to make roads safer, for example making them narrower or placing obstacles in them, so that drivers are forced to slow down.
  • traffic control — management of road use
  • transferability — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
  • trifluoperazine — a compound, C 21 H 24 F 3 N 3 S, used as an antipsychotic.
  • ultracentrifuge — a high-speed centrifuge for subjecting sols or solutions to forces many times that of gravity and producing concentration differences depending on the weight of the micelle or molecule.
  • ultrafiltration — Physical Chemistry. a filter for purifying sols, having a membrane with pores sufficiently small to prevent the passage of the suspended particles.
  • un-fortuitously — happening or produced by chance; accidental: a fortuitous encounter.
  • unaffordability — that can be afforded; believed to be within one's financial means: attractive new cars at affordable prices.
  • unfamiliarities — not familiar; not acquainted with or conversant about: to be unfamiliar with a subject.
  • uninformatively — in an uninformative manner
  • unverifiability — the quality or state of being unverifiable
  • vegetable knife — a knife designed to cut up vegetables
  • viral infection — disease caused by a virus
  • vulgar fraction — common fraction.
  • walk-in traffic — The walk-in traffic of a store is the number of people who choose to visit it as they pass by.
  • walking catfish — an Asian catfish, Clarias batrachus, that can survive out of water and move overland from one body of water to another: introduced into Florida.
  • well-identified — 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.
  • west nile fever — a viral disease, caused by a flavivirus and spread by a mosquito (Culex pipiens), that results in encephalitis
  • white zinfandel — a medium-sweet rosé wine made from zinfandel grapes.
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