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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
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