15-letter words containing n, i, f, t
- think better of — to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.
- think little of — small in size; not big; not large; tiny: a little desk in the corner of the room.
- three of a kind — a set of three cards of the same denomination.
- tibetan mastiff — a heavy well-built dog of a Tibetan breed with a long thick coat and a bushy tail carried curled over its back, often used as a guard dog
- tiffany setting — a setting, as in a ring, in which the stone is held with prongs.
- tightfistedness — the quality or state of being tightfisted
- time and a half — a rate of pay for overtime work equal to one and one half times the regular hourly wage.
- time difference — the difference in clock time between two or more different time zones
- to make friends — If you make friends with someone, you begin a friendship with them. You can also say that two people make friends.
- top-of-the-line — being the best and usually the most expensive of its kind: The company previewed its top-of-the-line carpeting.
- towers of hanoi — (games) A classic computer science problem, invented by Edouard Lucas in 1883, often used as an example of recursion. "In the great temple at Benares, says he, beneath the dome which marks the centre of the world, rests a brass plate in which are fixed three diamond needles, each a cubit high and as thick as the body of a bee. On one of these needles, at the creation, God placed sixty-four discs of pure gold, the largest disc resting on the brass plate, and the others getting smaller and smaller up to the top one. This is the Tower of Bramah. Day and night unceasingly the priests transfer the discs from one diamond needle to another according to the fixed and immutable laws of Bramah, which require that the priest on duty must not move more than one disc at a time and that he must place this disc on a needle so that there is no smaller disc below it. When the sixty-four discs shall have been thus transferred from the needle on which at the creation God placed them to one of the other needles, tower, temple, and Brahmins alike will crumble into dust, and with a thunderclap the world will vanish." The recursive solution is: Solve for n-1 discs recursively, then move the remaining largest disc to the free needle. Note that there is also a non-recursive solution: On odd-numbered moves, move the smallest sized disk clockwise. On even-numbered moves, make the single other move which is possible.
- track and field — athletics events
- track-and-field — of, relating to, or participating in the sports of running, pole-vaulting, broad-jumping, etc.: a track-and-field athlete.
- 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 control — management of road use
- traffic manager — a person who supervises the transportation of goods for an employer.
- traffic offence — a violation of traffic regulations, such as breaking the speed limit
- traffic pattern — Aeronautics. a system of courses about an airfield that aircraft are assigned to fly when taking off, landing, or preparing to land.
- transfer window — the period during the year in which a football club can transfer players from other teams into their own
- transferability — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- transfiguration — the act of transfiguring.
- trifluoperazine — a compound, C 21 H 24 F 3 N 3 S, used as an antipsychotic.
- trondheim fiord — an inlet of the North Sea, extending into N Norway. 80 miles (129 km) long.
- trondheim fjord — an inlet of the Norwegian Sea in Norway, and Norway's third longest fjord, near which is the port of Trondheim
- trout fisherman — a fisherman who catches trout
- twist the knife — to make a bad situation worse in a deliberately malicious way
- 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.
- ultrafiltration — Physical Chemistry. a filter for purifying sols, having a membrane with pores sufficiently small to prevent the passage of the suspended particles.
- un-fortuitously — happening or produced by chance; accidental: a fortuitous encounter.
- unaffordability — that can be afforded; believed to be within one's financial means: attractive new cars at affordable prices.
- under the knife — an instrument for cutting, consisting essentially of a thin, sharp-edged, metal blade fitted with a handle.
- unfair practice — unfair competition.
- unfamiliarities — not familiar; not acquainted with or conversant about: to be unfamiliar with a subject.
- uninformatively — in an uninformative manner
- unit of account — the function of money that enables the user to keep accounts, value transactions, etc
- university fees — charges made by a university for the administering of a course of study or an examination
- unsatisfiedness — the state of being unsatisfied
- unverifiability — the quality or state of being unverifiable
- vector function — a function that assigns a vector to each point in a given set.
- vegetable knife — a knife designed to cut up vegetables
- vestimentiferan — any of various marine tubeworms of the phylum Vestimentifera or Pogonophora, which live in upright tubes near hydrothermal vents.
- viral infection — disease caused by a virus
- vulgar fraction — common fraction.
- walk-in traffic — The walk-in traffic of a store is the number of people who choose to visit it as they pass by.
- 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.
- warrant officer — (in the U.S. Armed Forces) an officer of one of four grades ranking above enlisted personnel and below commissioned officers.
- weatherproofing — Present participle of weatherproof.
- well-identified — to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of: to identify handwriting; to identify the bearer of a check.
- west nile fever — a viral disease, caused by a flavivirus and spread by a mosquito (Culex pipiens), that results in encephalitis