15-letter words containing o, f, e, n, s, i
- semi-functional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- service uniform — a uniform for routine duties and service, as distinguished from work, dress, or full-dress uniforms.
- simple fraction — a ratio of two integers.
- sleight of hand — skill in feats requiring quick and clever movements of the hands, especially for entertainment or deception, as jugglery, card or coin magic, etc.; legerdemain.
- social benefits — the social welfare provision made available to those in need
- sons of liberty — any of several patriotic societies, originally secret, that opposed the Stamp Act and thereafter supported moves for American independence.
- spanish trefoil — alfalfa.
- speaking of sth — You can say speaking of something that has just been mentioned as a way of introducing a new topic which has some connection with that thing.
- spelling reform — an attempt to change the spelling of English words to make it conform more closely to pronunciation.
- spirits of wine — alcohol (def 1).
- spotted sunfish — a sunfish, Lepomis punctatus, inhabiting streams from South Carolina to Florida, having the body marked with longitudinal rows of spots.
- stand in awe of — to respect and fear
- station officer — a person who is in charge of a fire station
- 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
- stocking filler — A stocking filler is a small present that is suitable for putting in a Christmas stocking.
- streamline flow — the flow of a fluid past an object such that the velocity at any fixed point in the fluid is constant or varies in a regular manner.
- subprofessional — being below professional standards: subprofessional health care.
- superconfidence — great or extreme confidence, overconfidence
- surface tension — the elasticlike force existing in the surface of a body, especially a liquid, tending to minimize the area of the surface, caused by asymmetries in the intermolecular forces between surface molecules.
- suspension file — a folder for documents that has protruding ends that can be hung over rails for storage
- television film — a feature-length film that is made specifically to be shown on television
- tentaculiferous — having tentacles
- thanks offering — an offering made as an expression of thanks to God
- thermodiffusion — thermal diffusion.
- to make friends — If you make friends with someone, you begin a friendship with them. You can also say that two people make friends.
- 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.
- transfer window — the period during the year in which a football club can transfer players from other teams into their own
- trout fisherman — a fisherman who catches trout
- undress uniform — a uniform worn on other than formal occasions.
- unforgivingness — not disposed to forgive or show mercy; unrelenting.
- unfossiliferous — (of sediment, clay, rock, etc) not containing fossils
- unselfconscious — not self-conscious; without affectation or pretense: an unselfconscious manner.
- widow's benefit — (in the British National Insurance scheme) a former weekly payment made to a widow
- witch of agnesi — a plane curve symmetrical about the y- axis and asymptotic to the x- axis, given by the equation x 2 y =4 a 2 (2 a − y).
- yeast infection — candida: genital inflammation