15-letter words containing f, r, e, s, t
- irrespective of — regardless of sth
- job's comforter — a person who unwittingly or maliciously depresses or discourages someone while attempting to be consoling.
- kaffeeklatscher — a person who participates, especially regularly, in a kaffee klatsch.
- kidasa software — (company) A company which develops project management software for Microsoft Windows.
- lateral fissure — the fissure separating the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes of the cerebrum.
- legacy software — legacy system
- let yourself go — If you let yourself go, you relax and behave much more freely than usual.
- loft conversion — an extra room added to a house by converting the roof space
- longshore drift — beach drift.
- low pass filter — (electronics, graphics) A filter that attenuates high frequency components of a signal. In image processing, a low pass filter might be used to remove noise from an image.
- low-pass filter — a filter that transmits all frequencies below a specified value, substantially attenuating frequencies above this value
- magnesioferrite — (mineralogy) A magnesium iron oxide mineral, a member of the magnetite series of spinels, which forms black metallic octahedral crystals.
- make tracks for — to go or head towards
- margaritiferous — yielding or wearing pearls
- meissner effect — the loss of magnetism that a superconductor displays when cooled to its transition temperature in a magnetic field.
- member of staff — an employee of a particular organization
- microsoft excel — (tool) A spreadsheet program from Microsoft, part of their Microsoft Office suite of productivity tools for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. Excel is probably the most widely used spreadsheet in the world.
- mis-informative — to give false or misleading information to.
- mistrustfulness — Quality of being mistrustful.
- mortiferousness — deadliness
- multiflora rose — a climbing or trailing rose, Rosa multiflora, of Japan and Korea, having hooked prickles and fragrant, dense clusters of flowers.
- national forest — forested land owned, maintained, and preserved by the U.S. government.
- nest of drawers — a miniature chest of drawers made in the 18th century, often set on top of a desk or table.
- neuroscientific — the field of study encompassing the various scientific disciplines dealing with the structure, development, function, chemistry, pharmacology, and pathology of the nervous system.
- no respecter of — If you say that someone or something is no respecter of a rule or tradition, you mean that the rule or tradition is not important to them.
- nonconformities — Plural form of nonconformity.
- nontransferable — Not transferable; not able to be transferred.
- not be yourself — If you say that you are not yourself, you mean you are not feeling well.
- nutty professor — a professor or academic person who is eccentric or slightly crazy or unusual
- ocean of storms — the largest of the dark plains (maria) on the surface of the moon, situated in the second and third quadrant
- official strike — a collective stoppage of work by part or all of the workforce of an organization with the approval of the trade union concerned. The stoppage may be accompanied by the payment of strike pay by the trade union concerned
- offset printing — offset (def 6).
- outside forward — one of two attacking players who usually play on the far side of the field; wing.
- oyster toadfish — See under toadfish (def 1).
- passport office — an office which issues passports
- perfectionistic — a person who adheres to or believes in perfectionism.
- perfector press — a flatbed press for printing both sides of a sheet in one operation.
- performing arts — dance, drama, music
- perfunctoriness — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- personification — the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.
- peter of amiens — c1050–1115, French monk: preacher of the first Crusade 1095–99.
- pilgrim fathers — the Pilgrims (of Plymouth Colony)
- pinkster flower — a wild azalea, Rhododendron periclymenoides, of the U.S., having pink or purplish flowers.
- platform scales — a weighing machine which has a platform that you put something on to be weighed
- platform tennis — a variation of tennis played on a wooden platform enclosed with chicken wire in which the players hit a rubber ball with wooden paddles following the same basic rules as tennis except that only one serve is permitted and balls can be played off the back and side fences.
- play favourites — to display favouritism
- potash feldspar — any of the feldspar minerals having the composition KAlSi 3 O 8 , as orthoclase.
- pott's fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
- power breakfast — If business people have a power breakfast, they go to a restaurant early in the morning so that they can have a meeting while they eat breakfast.
- preferentialism — the economic system of preference, esp amongst British commonwealth countries