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19-letter words containing f, u, l, t, o

  • sodium hydrosulfite — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, Na 2 S 2 O 4 , used as a reducing agent, especially in dyeing, and as a bleach.
  • soft-shelled turtle — any of numerous aquatic turtles of the family Trionychidae, inhabiting North America, Asia, and Africa, having the shell covered with flexible, leathery skin instead of horny plates.
  • solid of revolution — a three-dimensional figure formed by revolving a plane area about a given axis.
  • specular reflection — Specular reflection is reflection of heat or light in which the angles of different parts of the surface are important.
  • speculative fiction — a broad literary genre encompassing any fiction with supernatural, fantastical, or futuristic elements
  • sugar loaf mountain — a mountain in SE Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, at the entrance to Guanabara Bay. 1280 feet (390 meters).
  • sulfureted hydrogen — hydrogen sulfide.
  • tetrafluoroethylene — a colorless, water-insoluble, flammable gas, C 2 F 4 , used in the synthesis of certain polymeric resins, as Teflon.
  • to be full of beans — If someone is full of beans, they are very lively and have a lot of energy and enthusiasm.
  • to come full circle — If you say that you have come full circle or have turned full circle, you mean that after a long series of events or changes the same situation that you started with still exists.
  • to follow your nose — If you follow your nose to get to a place, you go straight ahead or follow the most obvious route.
  • to keep to yourself — If you keep to yourself, you stay on your own most of the time and do not mix socially with other people.
  • to the exclusion of — If you do one thing to the exclusion of something else, you only do the first thing and do not do the second thing at all.
  • traffic regulations — rules designed to expedite the flow of traffic and prevent collisions
  • trouble someone for — to ask someone to pass, hand, give, etc. (something) to one
  • wage-push inflation — an inflationary trend caused by wage increases that in turn cause rises in production costs and prices.
  • with flying colours — If you pass a test with flying colours, you have done very well in the test.
  • wouldn't harm a fly — If you say that someone wouldn't hurt a fly or wouldn't harm a fly, you are emphasizing that they are very kind and gentle.
  • xenon tetrafluoride — a colorless, crystalline compound, XeF 4 , prepared by heating a gaseous mixture of fluorine and xenon.
  • yellowtail flounder — a righteyed flounder, Limanda ferruginea, inhabiting waters along the Atlantic coast of North America, having a yellowish tail fin and rusty-red spots on the body: once commercially important, now greatly reduced in number.
  • zone of illuviation — B horizon.
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