17-letter words containing f, o, t, l, s
- get above oneself — If you say that someone is getting above themself, you disapprove of them because they think they are better than everyone else.
- gi bill of rights — any of various Congressional bills enacted to provide funds for college educations, home-buying loans, and other benefits for armed-services veterans.
- glory-of-the-snow — any of several plants belonging to the genus Chionodoxa, of the lily family, native to the Old World, having showy, blue, white, or pink flowers that bloom early in the spring.
- great vowel shift — a series of changes in the quality of the long vowels between Middle and Modern English as a result of which all were raised, while the high vowels (ē) and (o̅o̅), already at the upper limit, underwent breaking to become the diphthongs (ī) and (ou).
- homolytic fission — the dissociation of a molecule into two neutral fragments
- household effects — domestic belongings
- immunofluorescent — Of, pertaining to, or using immunofluorescence.
- interconfessional — common to or occurring between churches having different confessions.
- interprofessional — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
- island of the sun — Sicily: the island where Helius kept his oxen.
- it's your funeral — If someone says to you 'It's your funeral', they think your decision or your actions will have bad consequences for you, but they are unwilling to interfere.
- john of lancaster — Duke of Bedford, 1389–1435, Bedford, John of Lancaster, Duke of.
- knock oneself out — to make great efforts; exhaust oneself
- lady of the house — the female head of a household (usually preceded by the).
- lake of the woods — Eldrick [el-drik] /ˈɛl drɪk/ (Show IPA), ("Tiger") born 1975, U.S. professional golfer.
- lance of courtesy — a lance having a blunt head to prevent serious injury by a jouster to an opponent.
- laplace transform — a map of a function, as a signal, defined especially for positive real values, as time greater than zero, into another domain where the function is represented as a sum of exponentials.
- last-in first-out — stack
- league of nations — an international organization to promote world peace and cooperation that was created by the Treaty of Versailles (1919): dissolved April 1946.
- least fixed point — (mathematics) A function f may have many fixed points (x such that f x = x). For example, any value is a fixed point of the identity function, (\ x . x). If f is recursive, we can represent it as f = fix F where F is some higher-order function and fix F = F (fix F). The standard denotational semantics of f is then given by the least fixed point of F. This is the least upper bound of the infinite sequence (the ascending Kleene chain) obtained by repeatedly applying F to the totally undefined value, bottom. I.e. fix F = LUB {bottom, F bottom, F (F bottom), ...}. The least fixed point is guaranteed to exist for a continuous function over a cpo.
- letter of request — a letter sent from a court to a foreign court requesting judicial assistance
- letters of marque — a former government document authorizing an individual to make reprisals on the subjects of an enemy nation, specif. to arm a ship and capture enemy merchant ships and cargo
- liberty of speech — freedom of speech.
- lick the boots of — to be servile, obsequious, or flattering towards
- life imprisonment — long-term prison sentence
- lord of the flies — a novel (1954) by William Golding.
- make light of sth — If you make light of something, you treat it as though it is not serious or important, when in fact it is.
- metallofullerenes — Plural form of metallofullerene.
- mill on the floss — a novel (1860) by George Eliot.
- not spare oneself — to exert oneself to the full
- of the old school — If you approve of someone because they have good qualities that used to be more common in the past, you can describe them as one of the old school.
- off one's trolley — trolley car.
- off-site facility — An off-site facility is a facility which is not at the main industrial or commercial site.
- on the half shell — served raw, with seasonings, on a half shell
- one size fits all — (of clothing) designed to fit people of a wide range of sizes.
- one-size-fits-all — (of clothing) designed to fit people of a wide range of sizes.
- out of all reason — unreasonable
- out of this world — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
- phlebotomus fever — sandfly fever.
- play with oneself — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- potassium sulfate — a crystalline, water-soluble solid, K 2 SO 4 , used chiefly in the manufacture of fertilizers, alums, and mineral water, and as a reagent in analytical chemistry.
- prefect apostolic — the administrator, usually below the rank of bishop, in charge of a prefecture apostolic.
- preferential shop — a shop in which union members are preferred, usually by agreement of an employer with a union.
- procurator fiscal — In the Scottish legal system, the procurator fiscal is a public official who puts people on trial.
- refuse collection — the collection of rubbish and waste, usually in a rubbish or refuse truck, before final disposal
- register of wills — (in some states of the U.S.) the official charged with the probate of wills or with the keeping of the records of the probate court.
- saint elmo's fire — corona discharge.
- salt of the earth — an individual or group considered as representative of the best or noblest elements of society.
- scarlet firethorn — a Eurasian evergreen, thorny shrub, Pyracantha coccinea, of the rose family, having white, hairy flower clusters and bright red berries.
- self-annihilation — self-destruction; suicide.