15-letter words containing i, r, e, f, a, g
- rite of passage — Anthropology. a ceremony performed to facilitate or mark a person's change of status upon any of several highly important occasions, as at the onset of puberty or upon entry into marriage or into a clan.
- roaring forties — the stormy oceanic areas between 40° and 50° south latitude
- ruby grapefruit — a grapefruit with red flesh
- schiffs-reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
- self-flattering — praise and exaggeration of one's own achievements coupled with a denial or glossing over of one's faults or failings; self-congratulation.
- self-generating — producing from within itself.
- self-generation — production or reproduction of something without the aid of an external agent; spontaneous generation.
- self-lacerating — to tear roughly; mangle: The barbed wire lacerated his hands.
- 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-regulative — used for or capable of controlling or adjusting oneself or itself: a self-regulative device.
- semi-figurative — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
- specific charge — the ratio of the charge on a particle to the mass of the particle.
- stamford bridge — a village in N England, east of York: site of a battle (1066) in which King Harold of England defeated his brother Tostig and King Harald Hardrada of Norway, three weeks before the Battle of Hastings
- 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
- strike the flag — to relinquish command, esp of a ship
- 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.
- thanks offering — an offering made as an expression of thanks to God
- 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.
- weatherproofing — Present participle of weatherproof.