15-letter words containing g, i, n, f
- self-glorifying — to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.
- self-immolating — of, relating to, or tending toward self-immolation.
- self-indulgence — indulging one's own desires, passions, whims, etc., especially without restraint.
- self-justifying — offering excuses for oneself, especially in excess of normal demands.
- self-lacerating — to tear roughly; mangle: The barbed wire lacerated his hands.
- self-monitoring — (especially formerly) a student appointed to assist in the conduct of a class or school, as to help take attendance or keep order.
- self-preserving — preservation of oneself from harm or destruction.
- self-rectifying — to make, put, or set right; remedy; correct: He sent them a check to rectify his account.
- self-regulating — adjusting, ruling, or governing itself without outside interference; operating or functioning without externally imposed controls or regulations: a self-regulating economy; the self-regulating market.
- self-regulation — control by oneself or itself, as in an economy, business organization, etc., especially such control as exercised independently of governmental supervision, laws, or the like.
- self-renouncing — to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
- 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.
- self-satisfying — effecting satisfaction to oneself.
- self-subsisting — to exist; continue in existence.
- 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-validating — requiring no external confirmation, sanction, or validation.
- significatively — serving to signify.
- single-cut file — a file with teeth in one direction only: used for filing soft material
- sleight of hand — skill in feats requiring quick and clever movements of the hands, especially for entertainment or deception, as jugglery, card or coin magic, etc.; legerdemain.
- speaking of sth — You can say speaking of something that has just been mentioned as a way of introducing a new topic which has some connection with that thing.
- spelling reform — an attempt to change the spelling of English words to make it conform more closely to pronunciation.
- steam reforming — a process in which methane from natural gas is heated, with steam, usually with a catalyst, to produce a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen used in organic synthesis and as a fuel
- sticky-fingered — given to thieving
- stocking filler — A stocking filler is a small present that is suitable for putting in a Christmas stocking.
- street fighting — violent and illegal fighting between individuals or groups
- sulfiting agent — sulfite (def 2).
- supporting film — a film that accompanies the main feature film in a film programme
- 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.
- thanks offering — an offering made as an expression of thanks to God
- the first thing — even one thing
- thing-in-itself — reality as it is apart from experience; what remains to be postulated after space, time, and all the categories of the understanding are assigned to consciousness. Compare noumenon (def 3).
- tiffany setting — a setting, as in a ring, in which the stone is held with prongs.
- tightfistedness — the quality or state of being tightfisted
- trading profits — profits made from the buying and selling of goods and services
- 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.
- transfiguration — the act of transfiguring.
- 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.
- underfulfilling — falling short of satisfactory
- unforgivingness — not disposed to forgive or show mercy; unrelenting.
- van diemen gulf — an inlet of the Timor Sea in N Australia, in the Northern Territory
- vegetable knife — a knife designed to cut up vegetables
- viewing figures — the number of people watching a television programme
- 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.
- weatherproofing — Present participle of weatherproof.
- 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).