0%

15-letter words containing n, i, e, t

  • externalisation — Alternative spelling of externalization.
  • externalization — A physical thing that typifies an abstract thing; an embodiment or personalization.
  • extradictionary — (obsolete) Consisting not of words but of realities.
  • extralinguistic — Outside the realm of linguistics.
  • extraordinaries — things that exceed the usual order, kind, or method
  • extraordinarily — In an extraordinary manner.
  • extreme ironing — an activity that involves ironing items of laundry while engaged in a sport such as snowboarding or rock climbing
  • extreme unction — Catholicism: last rites
  • extrinsicalness — Quality of being extrinsical.
  • eye examination — an eye test
  • fabric softener — a substance added to fabrics during laundering to make them puffier and softer.
  • factory chimney — a tall chimney of a factory
  • fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
  • faint-heartedly — nervously
  • fair employment — the policy or practice of employing people on the basis of their capabilities only, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability.
  • faithworthiness — the quality of being faithworthy
  • falling weather — wet weather, as rain or snow.
  • fallopian tubes — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
  • family skeleton — a closely guarded family secret
  • fantasticalness — The state or condition of being fantastical.
  • fatal exception — (programming, operating system)   A program execution error which is trapped by the operating system and which results in abrupt termination of the program. It may be possible for the program to catch some such errors, e.g. a floating point underflow; others, such as an invalid memory access (an attempt to write to read-only memory or an attempt to read memory outside of the program's address space), may always cause control to pass to the operating system without allowing the program an opportunity to handle the error. The details depend on the language's run-time system and the operating system. See also: fatal error.
  • fauntleroy suit — a formal outfit for a boy composed of a hip-length jacket and knee-length pants, often in black velvet, and a wide, lacy collar and cuffs, usually worn with a broad sash at the waist and sometimes a large, loose bow at the neck, popular in the late 19th century.
  • feast or famine — characterized by alternating, extremely high and low degrees of prosperity, success, volume of business, etc.: artists who lead a feast-or-famine life.
  • feast-or-famine — characterized by alternating, extremely high and low degrees of prosperity, success, volume of business, etc.: artists who lead a feast-or-famine life.
  • feather banding — decorative banding of veneer or inlay having the grain laid diagonally to the grain of the principal surface.
  • ferranti f100-l — (processor)   A processor, with 16-bit addressing, registers and data paths and a 1-bit serial ALU. The F100-L could only access 32K of memory (one address bit was used for indirection). It was designed by a British company for the British Military. The unique feature of the F100-L was that it had a complete control bus available for a coprocessor. Any instruction the F100-L couldn't decode was sent directly to the coprocessor for processing. Applications for coprocessors at the time were limited, but the design is still used in modern processors, such as the National Semiconductor 32000 series. The disk operating system was written by Alec Cawley.
  • fetal diagnosis — prenatal determination of genetic or chemical abnormalities in a fetus, esp by amniocentesis
  • field intensity — the vector sum of all forces exerted by a field on a unit mass, unit charge, unit magnetic pole, etc., at a given point within the field.
  • field woundwort — the plant Stachys arvensis
  • fifth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, providing chiefly that no person be required to testify against himself or herself in a criminal case and that no person be subjected to a second trial for an offense for which he or she has been duly tried previously.
  • fifth dimension — a theoretical dimension beyond or in addition to a fourth dimension.
  • fighter command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to the use of fighter aircraft, esp against enemy bombers and their escorts during WWII
  • fighting chance — a possibility of success following a struggle.
  • fighting french — Free French.
  • figurate number — a number having the property that the same number of equally spaced dots can be arranged in the shape of a regular geometrical figure.
  • file management — the work of organizing and arranging files in a computer
  • fillister plane — an adjustable plane for cutting rabbets, grooves, etc
  • find one's feet — to become capable or confident, as in a new job
  • fine-tooth comb — a comb having narrow, closely set teeth.
  • finger alphabet — a series of shapes made by the fingers that indicate letters of an alphabet and can be used in fingerspelling for the deaf
  • finger painting — a jellylike paint, used chiefly by children in painting, usually with their fingers.
  • finger-pointing — the imputation of blame or responsibility.
  • finite automata — Finite State Machine
  • fire department — the department of a municipal government charged with the prevention and extinguishing of fire.
  • fire prevention — safety measures to decrease fire risk
  • fire resistance — the amount of resistance of a material or construction to fire.
  • fire water pond — A fire water pond is an area of water which is kept so it can be used if there is a fire.
  • fire-and-forget — used to describe a type of missile that, once fired, is able to guide itself to its target
  • first amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, prohibiting Congress from interfering with freedom of religion, speech, assembly, or petition.
  • first gentleman — (often initial capital letters) the husband of the U.S. president or a current governor or mayor.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?