15-letter words containing s, e, l, f, i
- subprofessional — being below professional standards: subprofessional health care.
- sulfite process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an acid liquor consisting of sulfurous acid and a salt, usually calcium bisulfite.
- sulfiting agent — sulfite (def 2).
- sulfur trioxide — an irritant, corrosive, low-melting solid, SO 3 , obtained by the oxidation of sulfur dioxide, used as an intermediate in the manufacture of sulfuric acid.
- superficialness — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
- suspension file — a folder for documents that has protruding ends that can be hung over rails for storage
- sylvian fissure — lateral fissure.
- television film — a feature-length film that is made specifically to be shown on television
- tentaculiferous — having tentacles
- the classifieds — a section of classified advertising in a publication
- thing-in-itself — reality as it is apart from experience; what remains to be postulated after space, time, and all the categories of the understanding are assigned to consciousness. Compare noumenon (def 3).
- to play footsie — If someone plays footsie with you, they touch your feet with their own feet, for example under a table, often as a playful way of expressing their romantic or sexual feelings towards you.
- transferability — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- tray classifier — A tray classifier is a tank for leaching from a dispersed solid, in which pulp at the bottom of the tank is raked (= moved to the exit) while solvent is forced toward the bottom of the tank.
- unfamiliarities — not familiar; not acquainted with or conversant about: to be unfamiliar with a subject.
- unfossiliferous — (of sediment, clay, rock, etc) not containing fossils
- unselfconscious — not self-conscious; without affectation or pretense: an unselfconscious manner.
- welfare statism — the belief in or practices of a welfare state.
- west nile fever — a viral disease, caused by a flavivirus and spread by a mosquito (Culex pipiens), that results in encephalitis
- wish fulfilment — (in Freudian psychology) any successful attempt to fulfil a wish stemming from the unconscious mind, whether in fact, in fantasy, or by such disguised means as sublimation
- yellow goatfish — a schooling goatfish, Mulloidichthys martinicus, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Panama.