15-letter words containing f, s, y, t
- infinitesimally — indefinitely or exceedingly small; minute: infinitesimal vessels in the circulatory system.
- insignificantly — Of such extremely small quantity or degree that it is not worth measuring.
- lay oneself out — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- legacy software — legacy system
- let yourself go — If you let yourself go, you relax and behave much more freely than usual.
- lifestyle block — a semi-rural property comprising a house and land for small-scale farming
- lopez y fuentes — Gregorio [gre-gaw-ryaw] /grɛˈgɔ ryɔ/ (Show IPA), 1895–1966, Mexican writer.
- monospecificity — the condition of being specific for a sole antigen
- myofibroblastic — Relating to myofibroblasts.
- non-feasibility — capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan.
- non-specificity — the quality or state of being specific.
- 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
- one of the boys — If a man is described as one of the boys, he is accepted by a group of male friends who do things that are thought of as typically masculine.
- oyster toadfish — See under toadfish (def 1).
- play favourites — to display favouritism
- registry office — a government office and depository in which records and civil registers are kept and civil marriages performed.
- right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
- saltwater taffy — a taffy sometimes made with seawater but more generally made with salted fresh water.
- schottky defect — an unoccupied position in a crystal lattice caused by the relocation of an atom or ion from the interior to the surface of the crystal.
- schottky effect — a reduction in the energy required to remove an electron from a solid surface in a vacuum when an electric field is applied to the surface
- security forces — police or soldiers responsible for maintaining security
- self-admittedly — admitting to a specific charge or accusation; self-confessed: a self-admitted spy.
- self-analytical — the application of psychoanalytic techniques and theories to an analysis of one's own personality and behavior, especially without the aid of a psychiatrist or other trained person.
- self-employment — the act or fact of being self-employed.
- self-hypnotized — hypnotized by oneself.
- self-justifying — offering excuses for oneself, especially in excess of normal demands.
- self-rectifying — to make, put, or set right; remedy; correct: He sent them a check to rectify his account.
- self-regulatory — Self-regulatory systems, organizations, or activities are controlled by the people involved in them, rather than by outside organizations or rules.
- self-revelatory — displaying, exhibiting, or disclosing one's most private feelings, thoughts, etc.: an embarrassingly self-revealing autobiography.
- self-satisfying — effecting satisfaction to oneself.
- significatively — serving to signify.
- sister of mercy — a member of a congregation of sisters founded in Dublin in 1827 by Catherine McAuley (1787–1841) and engaged chiefly in works of spiritual and corporal mercy.
- skylight filter — a very slightly pink filter that absorbs ultraviolet light and reduces haze and excessive blueness
- slumpflationary — of or relating to slumpflation
- sons of liberty — any of several patriotic societies, originally secret, that opposed the Stamp Act and thereafter supported moves for American independence.
- sticky-fingered — given to thieving
- surface density — quantity, as of electric charge, per unit surface area.
- syllabification — to form or divide into syllables.
- syngeneic graft — a tissue or organ transplanted from one member of a species to another, genetically identical member of the species, as a kidney transplanted from one identical twin to the other.
- synod of whitby — the synod held in 664 at Whitby at which the Roman date for Easter was accepted and the Church in England became aligned with Rome
- theory of games — game theory.
- theory of types — a theory advanced by Bertrand Russell to avoid the liar paradox, Russell's paradox, etc, in which a class of expressions or of the entities they represent can all enter into the same syntactic relations
- tiffany setting — a setting, as in a ring, in which the stone is held with prongs.
- to play footsie — If someone plays footsie with you, they touch your feet with their own feet, for example under a table, often as a playful way of expressing their romantic or sexual feelings towards you.
- transferability — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- tray classifier — A tray classifier is a tank for leaching from a dispersed solid, in which pulp at the bottom of the tank is raked (= moved to the exit) while solvent is forced toward the bottom of the tank.
- treaty of paris — a treaty of 1763 signed by Britain, France, and Spain that ended their involvement in the Seven Years' War
- un-fortuitously — happening or produced by chance; accidental: a fortuitous encounter.
- university fees — charges made by a university for the administering of a course of study or an examination