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15-letter words containing g, i, f, t, c

  • gulf of corinth — an inlet of the Ionian Sea between the Peloponnese and central Greece
  • hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
  • imperfect stage — a phase in the life cycle of certain fungi in which either no spores or asexual spores, as conidia, are produced.
  • insignificantly — Of such extremely small quantity or degree that it is not worth measuring.
  • insignificative — not expressed or denoted by external signs
  • joint financing — the provision of funds for a project, etc, from two or more sources
  • limiting factor — Physiology. the slowest, therefore rate-limiting, step in a process or reaction involving several steps.
  • linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
  • microcentrifuge — A centrifuge used in laboratories to separate materials from small samples (especially of biological material).
  • non-conflicting — being in conflict or disagreement; not compatible: conflicting viewpoints.
  • non-functioning — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
  • perfect binding — a technique for binding books by a machine that cuts off the backs of the sections and glues the leaves to a cloth or paper backing.
  • picture-framing — the job of framing photos, paintings etc
  • printing office — a shop or factory in which printing is done.
  • reconfiguration — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
  • refugee capital — money from abroad invested, esp for a short term, in the country offering the highest interest rate
  • register office — building where civil records are kept
  • registry office — a government office and depository in which records and civil registers are kept and civil marriages performed.
  • right of search — the privilege of a nation at war to search neutral ships on the high seas for contraband or other matter, carried in violation of neutrality, that may subject the ship to seizure.
  • right-of-center — holding conservative views in politics; right-wing.
  • right-of-centre — You can describe a person or political party as right-of-centre if they have political views which are closer to capitalism and conservatism than to socialism but which are not very extreme.
  • rightabout-face — a turning directly about so as to face in the opposite direction
  • schiffs-reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
  • self-afflicting — to distress with mental or bodily pain; trouble greatly or grievously: to be afflicted with arthritis.
  • self-committing — to give in trust or charge; consign.
  • self-correcting — automatically adjusting to or correcting mistakes, malfunctions, etc.: a self-correcting mechanism.
  • self-diagnostic — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
  • self-lacerating — to tear roughly; mangle: The barbed wire lacerated his hands.
  • self-rectifying — to make, put, or set right; remedy; correct: He sent them a check to rectify his account.
  • self-respecting — You can use self-respecting with a noun describing a particular type of person to indicate that something is typical of, or necessary for, that type of person.
  • significatively — serving to signify.
  • single-cut file — a file with teeth in one direction only: used for filing soft material
  • sticky-fingered — given to thieving
  • stocking filler — A stocking filler is a small present that is suitable for putting in a Christmas stocking.
  • 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.
  • teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
  • the magic flute — an opera (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
  • the-city-of-god — Latin De Civitate Dei. a work in 22 books (a.d. 413–26) by St. Augustine of Hippo, expounding an early Christian view of society and history.
  • through traffic — traffic which continues on a road or highway rather than crossing onto a different road
  • traffic calming — Traffic calming consists of measures designed to make roads safer, for example making them narrower or placing obstacles in them, so that drivers are forced to slow down.
  • traffic manager — a person who supervises the transportation of goods for an employer.
  • 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.
  • vulgar fraction — common fraction.
  • walking catfish — an Asian catfish, Clarias batrachus, that can survive out of water and move overland from one body of water to another: introduced into Florida.
  • witch of agnesi — a plane curve symmetrical about the y- axis and asymptotic to the x- axis, given by the equation x 2 y =4 a 2 (2 a − y).
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