15-letter words containing n, e, f, a, s, t
- football season — annual period when soccer is played
- for their pains — You say that something was all you got for your pains when you are mentioning the disappointing result of situation into which you put a lot of work or effort.
- forest of arden — a region of N Warwickshire, part of a former forest: scene of Shakespeare's As You Like It
- formation rules — the set of rules that specify the syntax of a formal system; the algorithm that generates the well-formed formulae
- fountains abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Ripon in Yorkshire: founded 1132, dissolved 1539; landscaped 1720
- fovea centralis — a small pit or depression at the back of the retina forming the point of sharpest vision.
- fragmentariness — The quality of being fragmentary.
- fragrance strip — a folded, usually sealed strip on a page or card, impregnated with fragrance that is released when pulled or torn open: The magazine is full of fragrance strips in the advertisements.
- francis turbine — a water turbine designed to produce high flow from a low head of pressure: used esp in hydroelectric power generation
- frankensteinian — a person who creates a monster or a destructive agency that cannot be controlled or that brings about the creator's ruin.
- fraternal twins — one of a pair of twins, not necessarily resembling each other, or of the same sex, that develop from two separately fertilized ova.
- freestone state — Connecticut (used as a nickname).
- french tamarisk — a shrub or small tree, Tamarix gallica, of the Mediterranean region, having bluish foliage and white or pinkish flowers.
- friar's lantern — ignis fatuus (def 1).
- fringe festival — an unofficial, often unconventional, arts festival that is associated with another, larger festival
- front-page news — a story printed on the first page of a newspaper
- functionalities — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- fundamentalists — Plural form of fundamentalist.
- fundamentalness — The state or condition of being fundamental; essential importance.
- giant sunflower — a composite plant, Helianthus giganteus, of eastern North America, growing nearly 12 feet (4 meters) high and having very large yellow flower heads.
- golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
- grafenberg spot — a patch of tissue in the front wall of the vagina, claimed to be erectile and highly erogenous.
- half-understood — partially understood
- halfheartedness — The characteristic of being half-hearted.
- health benefits — positive effects on health
- hoffman estates — a city in NE Illinois.
- housewifization — The process by which the division of labor has relegated women into housewives.
- identifications — Plural form of identification.
- in the hands of — under the control of
- in the shape of — You can use in the shape of to state exactly who or what you are referring to, immediately after referring to them in a general way.
- indefeasibility — The state or quality of being indefeasible, of being incapable of being defeated.
- ineffectualness — Inefficacy.
- inertial fusion — a type of nuclear fusion in which the inertia of matter enables it to fuse by impact, as by pulses of laser radiation or high-energy charged particles, rather than by high temperature
- infeasible path — dead code
- infinitesimally — indefinitely or exceedingly small; minute: infinitesimal vessels in the circulatory system.
- informativeness — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- infrastructures — Plural form of infrastructure.
- insignificative — not expressed or denoted by external signs
- intensification — to make intense or more intense.
- interfascicular — pertaining to or forming a fascicle; fasciculate.
- interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
- interstratified — Stratified with two alternating types of strata.
- interstratifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interstratify.
- justifiableness — Justifiability.
- latensification — (in photography) the process of intensifying a latent image by the use of chemicals, extra exposure to light, or other means
- lay oneself out — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- lofoten islands — group of Norwegian islands within the Arctic Circle, off the NW coast of Norway: c. 550 sq mi (1,424 sq km)
- magnesioferrite — (mineralogy) A magnesium iron oxide mineral, a member of the magnetite series of spinels, which forms black metallic octahedral crystals.
- mis-informative — to give false or misleading information to.
- national forest — forested land owned, maintained, and preserved by the U.S. government.