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15-letter words containing f, n, t

  • transfiguration — the act of transfiguring.
  • transform fault — a strike-slip fault that offsets a mid-ocean ridge in opposing directions on either side of an axis of seafloor spreading.
  • tree of sadness — night jasmine (def 1).
  • trifluoperazine — a compound, C 21 H 24 F 3 N 3 S, used as an antipsychotic.
  • trondheim fiord — an inlet of the North Sea, extending into N Norway. 80 miles (129 km) long.
  • trondheim fjord — an inlet of the Norwegian Sea in Norway, and Norway's third longest fjord, near which is the port of Trondheim
  • trout fisherman — a fisherman who catches trout
  • turf accountant — bookmaker (def 1).
  • turn a deaf ear — pretend not to hear
  • twist the knife — to make a bad situation worse in a deliberately malicious way
  • 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.
  • unaccounted for — If people or things are unaccounted for, you do not know where they are or what has happened to them.
  • unaccounted-for — not accounted for; not understood; unexplained: an explosion resulting from some unaccounted-for mechanical failure.
  • unaffordability — that can be afforded; believed to be within one's financial means: attractive new cars at affordable prices.
  • under the knife — an instrument for cutting, consisting essentially of a thin, sharp-edged, metal blade fitted with a handle.
  • under your feet — If you say that someone is under your feet, you are annoyed because they are with you or near you, and are bothering you.
  • unfair practice — unfair competition.
  • unfamiliarities — not familiar; not acquainted with or conversant about: to be unfamiliar with a subject.
  • uninformatively — in an uninformative manner
  • unit of account — the function of money that enables the user to keep accounts, value transactions, etc
  • university fees — charges made by a university for the administering of a course of study or an examination
  • unsatisfiedness — the state of being unsatisfied
  • unsteadfastness — the condition of being unsteadfast
  • unverifiability — the quality or state of being unverifiable
  • vector function — a function that assigns a vector to each point in a given set.
  • vegetable knife — a knife designed to cut up vegetables
  • velcro fastener — a fastener made of Velcro
  • venus's-flytrap — a carnivorous plant, Dionaea muscipula, native to bogs of North and South Carolina, having roundish leaves with two lobes that close like a trap when certain delicate hairs on them are irritated, as by a fly: the range is now reduced, though the plants are still locally abundant.
  • vestimentiferan — any of various marine tubeworms of the phylum Vestimentifera or Pogonophora, which live in upright tubes near hydrothermal vents.
  • viral infection — disease caused by a virus
  • volunteer force — a group of unpaid workers
  • 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.
  • walnut husk fly — any of several fruit flies, as Rhagoletis completa, the larvae of which feed on and discolor walnut husks.
  • warrant officer — (in the U.S. Armed Forces) an officer of one of four grades ranking above enlisted personnel and below commissioned officers.
  • weatherproofing — Present participle of weatherproof.
  • 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
  • west wind drift — Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
  • white zinfandel — a medium-sweet rosé wine made from zinfandel grapes.
  • widow's benefit — (in the British National Insurance scheme) a former weekly payment made to a widow
  • windfall profit — a profit that arises thanks to an external event over which the person profiting had no control
  • winter flounder — any of various popular food flatfishes, as Parophrys vetulus of the Pacific (English sole) and Pseudopleuronectes americanus of the Atlantic (winter flounder or blackback flounder)
  • wish fulfilment — (in Freudian psychology) any successful attempt to fulfil a wish stemming from the unconscious mind, whether in fact, in fantasy, or by such disguised means as sublimation
  • witch of agnesi — a plane curve symmetrical about the y- axis and asymptotic to the x- axis, given by the equation x 2 y =4 a 2 (2 a − y).
  • writ of summons — a writ requiring one to appear in court to answer a complaint.
  • wrongful arrest — the act of arresting someone without proper reason
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