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15-letter words containing f, n, t

  • before the wind — with the wind coming from astern
  • belted sandfish — a sea bass, Serranus subligarius, inhabiting warm, shallow waters of the western Atlantic Ocean.
  • benefit concert — a concert to raise money for charity
  • benefit in kind — a nonpecuniary benefit, such as a company car or medical insurance, given to an employee
  • benefit payment — a payment of money by the government to people who are ill, unemployed, poor or who have children
  • benefit society — an organization which, by means of dues, secures for its members certain benefits, such as life insurance, hospitalization, etc.
  • benefits agency — an agency that handles the payment of benefits
  • benevolent fund — a charitable organization
  • bessel function — one of several transcendental functions, usually represented as power series, that are solutions to a group of related differential equations.
  • biogasification — the conversion of organic matter into biogas.
  • bit-mapped font — a computer font whose characters are held in memory as series of dots.
  • biting housefly — a two-winged fly, Stomoxys calcitrans, having the mouthparts adapted for biting, and commonly a household and stable pest.
  • bodily function — A person's bodily functions are the normal physical processes that regularly occur in their body, particularly the ability to urinate and defecate.
  • bohemian forest — a mountain range between the SW Czech Republic and SE Germany. Highest peak: Arber, 1457 m (4780 ft)
  • book of account — a book to keep accounts in; ledger
  • branchial cleft — Zoology. one of a series of slitlike openings in the walls of the pharynx between the branchial arches of fishes and aquatic amphibians through which water passes from the pharynx to the exterior.
  • bristol fashion — clean and neat, with newly painted and scrubbed surfaces, brass polished, etc
  • britneyfication — the effect on clothes and fashions of following the revealing styles favoured by the US pop singer Britney Spears (born 1981)
  • brownfield site — a disused site envisaged for redevelopment
  • buffalo currant — an ornamental shrub, Ribes odoratum, of the central U.S., having showy, drooping clusters of fragrant yellow flowers and edible black fruit.
  • buffer solution — a solution to which a salt of a weak acid or base has been added
  • butter-fingered — a person who frequently drops things; clumsy person.
  • canning factory — a building or group of buildings containing a plant assembly where food is sealed in cans or tins to preserve it
  • cape finisterre — a headland in NW Spain: the westernmost point of the Spanish mainland
  • capital offence — a crime for which the death penalty is used
  • carbon fixation — the process by which plants assimilate carbon from carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to form metabolically active compounds
  • cast around for — If you cast around for something or cast about for it, you try to find it or think of it.
  • castel gandolfo — a village in central Italy, 15 miles (24 km) SE of Rome: papal palace serving as the summer residence of the pope.
  • catch (on) fire — to begin burning; ignite
  • cause of action — the facts alleged in a complaint, upon which is based the plaintiff's right to a legal remedy in a court of law
  • center halfback — Field Hockey. the player in the middle among the halfbacks.
  • central african — of or relating to the Central African Republic, its inhabitants, or their language.
  • centrifugal box — a revolving chamber, used in the spinning of manufactured filaments, in which the plastic fibers, subjected to centrifugal force, are slightly twisted and emerge in the form of yarn wound into the shape of a hollow cylinder.
  • champagne flute — a tall, thin champagne glass
  • change of heart — a profound change of outlook, opinion, etc
  • channel catfish — a food fish, Ictalurus punctatus, common in fresh waters throughout central U.S.
  • charles tiffany — Charles Lewis, 1812–1902, U.S. jeweler.
  • chest infection — a respiratory infection mainly affecting the chest
  • chesterfieldian — of or like Lord Chesterfield; suave; elegant; polished
  • chief assistant — the most important or top-ranking assistant to an official
  • chief constable — A Chief Constable is the officer who is in charge of the police force in a particular county or area in Britain.
  • chief inspector — an officer of high rank in British police forces
  • chilling effect — a discouraging or deterring effect, especially one resulting from a restrictive law or regulation.
  • circumferential — of, at, or near the circumference; surrounding; lying along the outskirts.
  • classifications — Plural form of classification.
  • clotting factor — any one of a group of substances, including factor VIII, the presence of which in the blood is essential for blood clotting to occur
  • code of conduct — The code of conduct for a group or organization is an agreement on rules of behaviour for the members of that group or organization.
  • coffee whitener — a milk substitute to put in coffee
  • come to oneself — to recover one's senses
  • comfort blanket — a blanket that a young child is very attached to
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