15-letter words containing n, s, p
- fighting spirit — courage and determination expressed in a willingness to fight or struggle
- fillister plane — an adjustable plane for cutting rabbets, grooves, etc
- finders keepers — whoever finds something has the right to keep it
- finger spelling — a method of communicating with or among deaf people in which different shapes made with the fingers represent different letters of the alphabet
- first principle — any axiom, law, or abstraction assumed and regarded as representing the highest possible degree of generalization.
- first responder — a person who is certified to provide medical care in emergencies before more highly trained medical personnel arrive on the scene: a firefighter trained as a first responder.
- fission product — a nuclide produced either directly by nuclear fission or by the radioactive decay of such a nuclide
- fissiparousness — The quality of being fissiparous.
- floating supply — the aggregate supply of ready-to-market goods or securities.
- food processing — transforming raw materials into food
- food supplement — a substance designed to make up for a deficiency in one's diet
- for the present — being, existing, or occurring at this time or now; current: increasing respect for the present ruler of the small country.
- 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.
- forensic expert — an expert in applying scientific, technical or medical knowledge to the purposes of law
- fourteen points — a statement of the war aims of the Allies, made by President Wilson on January 8, 1918.
- fourteen-points — a statement of the war aims of the Allies, made by President Wilson on January 8, 1918.
- fourth position — a position in which the feet are at right angles to the direction of the body, the toes pointing out, with one foot forward and the other foot back.
- 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.
- franz joseph ii — 1906–1989, prince of Liechtenstein 1938–89.
- free enterprise — an economic and political doctrine holding that a capitalist economy can regulate itself in a freely competitive market through the relationship of supply and demand with a minimum of governmental intervention and regulation.
- french-speaking — able to speak French
- fresnel biprism — biprism.
- front-page news — a story printed on the first page of a newspaper
- galloping-ghost — Harold ("Red"; "the Galloping Ghost") 1903–1991, U.S. football player.
- garrison troops — troops who maintain and guard a military base or fortified place
- gaspe peninsula — a peninsula in SE Canada, in Quebec province, between New Brunswick and the St. Lawrence River.
- gender politics — debate about the roles and relations of men and women
- gender-specific — for, characteristic of, or limited to either males or females: Left-handedness is not gender-specific.
- general paresis — a syphilitic brain disorder characterized by chronic inflammation and degeneration of cerebral tissue resulting in mental and physical deterioration.
- general-purpose — useful in many ways; not limited in use or function: a good general-purpose dictionary.
- geomorphogenist — one who studies, or is an expert in, geomorphogeny
- german shepherd — one of a breed of large shepherd dogs having a coat ranging in color from gray to brindled, black-and-tan, or black, used especially in police work and as a guide for the blind.
- german-speaking — able to speak German
- get one's lumps — a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
- gigantopithecus — a genus of extinct ape of southern Asia existing during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, known only from very large fossil jaws and teeth and believed to be perhaps the biggest hominoid that ever lived.
- glazier's point — a small, pointed piece of sheet metal, for holding a pane of glass in a sash until the putty has hardened.
- gnome computers — (company) A small UK hardware and software company. They make transputer boards for the Acorn Archimedes among other things. E-mail: Chris Stenton <[email protected]>.
- go up in flames — be burned
- golden eardrops — a Californian plant, Dicentra chrysantha, of the fumitory family, having bluish-green foliage and branched clusters of yellow flowers.
- golden pheasant — an Asiatic pheasant, Chrysolophus pictus, having brilliant scarlet, orange, gold, green, and black plumage.
- golden samphire — a Eurasian coastal plant, Inula crithmoides, with fleshy leaves and yellow flower heads: family Asteraceae (composites)
- gossipmongering — The behaviour of a gossipmonger; the spreading of salacious rumours.
- grafenberg spot — a patch of tissue in the front wall of the vagina, claimed to be erectile and highly erogenous.
- grandstand play — an ostentatious play, as in a sport, overemphasized deliberately to elicit applause from spectators.
- green sandpiper — a species of sandpiper, Tringa ochropus, with a greenish back and wings
- group insurance — life, accident, or health insurance available to a group of persons, as the employees of a company, under a single contract, usually without regard to physical condition or age of the individuals.
- hair transplant — the surgical transfer of clumps of skin with hair or of viable hair follicles from one site of the body to another, usually performed to correct baldness.
- hardhead sponge — any of several commercial sponges, as Spongia officinalis dura, of the West Indies and Central America, having a harsh, fibrous, resilient skeleton.
- hautes-pyrenees — a department in SW France. 1751 sq. mi. (4535 sq. km). Capital: Tarbes.
- have one's pick — If you have your pick of a group of things, you are able to choose any of them that you want.