15-letter words containing f, u, l, t
- self-regulative — used for or capable of controlling or adjusting oneself or itself: a self-regulative device.
- self-regulatory — Self-regulatory systems, organizations, or activities are controlled by the people involved in them, rather than by outside organizations or rules.
- self-solicitude — the state of being solicitous; anxiety or concern.
- self-subsisting — to exist; continue in existence.
- self-sufficient — able to supply one's own or its own needs without external assistance: The nation grows enough grain to be self-sufficient.
- self-suggestion — the act of suggesting.
- self-supporting — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
- self-sustaining — self-supporting.
- self-sustenance — means of sustaining life; nourishment.
- semi-functional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- simple fracture — a fracture in which the bone does not pierce the skin.
- single-cut file — a file with teeth in one direction only: used for filing soft material
- slumpflationary — of or relating to slumpflation
- soft-focus lens — a lens designed to produce an image that is uniformly very slightly out of focus: typically used for portrait work
- special feature — an article differing from the normal format and focusing on a particular topic
- st. ulmo's fire — St. Elmo's fire.
- stannic sulfide — a yellowish or brownish, water-insoluble powder, SnS 2 , usually used suspended in lacquer or varnish for gilding and bronzing metals, wood, paper, etc.; mosaic gold.
- stiff upper lip — stoicism
- strombuliferous — having organs coiled as spirals
- sulfite process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an acid liquor consisting of sulfurous acid and a salt, usually calcium bisulfite.
- sulfiting agent — sulfite (def 2).
- sulfur trioxide — an irritant, corrosive, low-melting solid, SO 3 , obtained by the oxidation of sulfur dioxide, used as an intermediate in the manufacture of sulfuric acid.
- sunflower state — Kansas (used as a nickname).
- supporting film — a film that accompanies the main feature film in a film programme
- tentaculiferous — having tentacles
- tetrafunctional — pertaining to molecules or groups that can bond at four sites.
- the hell out of — Some people use the hell out of for emphasis after verbs such as 'scare', 'irritate', and 'beat'.
- the magic flute — an opera (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- the rule of law — the principle that no one is above the law and that everyone must follow the law
- to fall foul of — If you fall foul of someone or run foul of them, you do something which gets you into trouble with them.
- transfer lounge — the place in an airport where you wait for a transfer from one flight to another
- transform fault — a strike-slip fault that offsets a mid-ocean ridge in opposing directions on either side of an axis of seafloor spreading.
- trifluoperazine — a compound, C 21 H 24 F 3 N 3 S, used as an antipsychotic.
- true-false test — a test requiring one to mark statements as true or false.
- ultracentrifuge — a high-speed centrifuge for subjecting sols or solutions to forces many times that of gravity and producing concentration differences depending on the weight of the micelle or molecule.
- ultrafastidious — extremely fastidious
- ultrafiltration — Physical Chemistry. a filter for purifying sols, having a membrane with pores sufficiently small to prevent the passage of the suspended particles.
- ultramicrofiche — ultrafiche.
- un-fortuitously — happening or produced by chance; accidental: a fortuitous encounter.
- unaffordability — that can be afforded; believed to be within one's financial means: attractive new cars at affordable prices.
- unfamiliarities — not familiar; not acquainted with or conversant about: to be unfamiliar with a subject.
- uninformatively — in an uninformative manner
- unverifiability — the quality or state of being unverifiable
- venus's-flytrap — a carnivorous plant, Dionaea muscipula, native to bogs of North and South Carolina, having roundish leaves with two lobes that close like a trap when certain delicate hairs on them are irritated, as by a fly: the range is now reduced, though the plants are still locally abundant.
- volunteer force — a group of unpaid workers
- vulgar fraction — common fraction.
- walnut husk fly — any of several fruit flies, as Rhagoletis completa, the larvae of which feed on and discolor walnut husks.
- well-formulated — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- well-thought-of — highly esteemed; of good reputation: a well-thought-of scholar; This new book is well-thought-of.
- winter flounder — any of various popular food flatfishes, as Parophrys vetulus of the Pacific (English sole) and Pseudopleuronectes americanus of the Atlantic (winter flounder or blackback flounder)