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15-letter words containing s, e, t, f

  • isthmus of suez — a strip of land in NE Egypt, between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea: links Africa and Asia and is crossed by the Suez Canal
  • job's comforter — a person who unwittingly or maliciously depresses or discourages someone while attempting to be consoling.
  • justifiableness — Justifiability.
  • kaffeeklatscher — a person who participates, especially regularly, in a kaffee klatsch.
  • kaffeeklatsches — Plural form of kaffeeklatsch.
  • keep to oneself — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
  • kidasa software — (company)   A company which develops project management software for Microsoft Windows.
  • latensification — (in photography) the process of intensifying a latent image by the use of chemicals, extra exposure to light, or other means
  • lateral fissure — the fissure separating the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes of the cerebrum.
  • lay oneself out — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
  • least killifish — a fish, Heterandria formosa, of coastal swamps from South Carolina to Florida, that feeds on mosquito larvae.
  • legacy software — legacy system
  • let yourself go — If you let yourself go, you relax and behave much more freely than usual.
  • lifestyle block — a semi-rural property comprising a house and land for small-scale farming
  • line of descent — someone's line of descent is all the people they are descended from
  • lofoten islands — group of Norwegian islands within the Arctic Circle, off the NW coast of Norway: c. 550 sq mi (1,424 sq km)
  • loft conversion — an extra room added to a house by converting the roof space
  • longshore drift — beach drift.
  • lopez y fuentes — Gregorio [gre-gaw-ryaw] /grɛˈgɔ ryɔ/ (Show IPA), 1895–1966, Mexican writer.
  • low pass filter — (electronics, graphics)   A filter that attenuates high frequency components of a signal. In image processing, a low pass filter might be used to remove noise from an image.
  • low-pass filter — a filter that transmits all frequencies below a specified value, substantially attenuating frequencies above this value
  • magnesioferrite — (mineralogy) A magnesium iron oxide mineral, a member of the magnetite series of spinels, which forms black metallic octahedral crystals.
  • make tracks for — to go or head towards
  • margaritiferous — yielding or wearing pearls
  • meissner effect — the loss of magnetism that a superconductor displays when cooled to its transition temperature in a magnetic field.
  • member of staff — an employee of a particular organization
  • mess of pottage — a material gain involving the sacrifice of a higher value
  • microsoft excel — (tool)   A spreadsheet program from Microsoft, part of their Microsoft Office suite of productivity tools for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. Excel is probably the most widely used spreadsheet in the world.
  • mis-informative — to give false or misleading information to.
  • mistrustfulness — Quality of being mistrustful.
  • monospecificity — the condition of being specific for a sole antigen
  • mortiferousness — deadliness
  • mount of olives — a hill to the east of Jerusalem: in New Testament times the village Bethany (Mark 11:11) was on its eastern slope and Gethsemane on its western one
  • multiflora rose — a climbing or trailing rose, Rosa multiflora, of Japan and Korea, having hooked prickles and fragrant, dense clusters of flowers.
  • multiphase flow — Multiphase flow is a type of flow that involves more than one fluid, for example a liquid and a gas, or two liquids that do not mix.
  • national forest — forested land owned, maintained, and preserved by the U.S. government.
  • neat's-foot oil — a pale-yellow fixed oil made by boiling the feet and shinbones of cattle, used chiefly as a dressing for leather.
  • nest of drawers — a miniature chest of drawers made in the 18th century, often set on top of a desk or table.
  • neuroscientific — the field of study encompassing the various scientific disciplines dealing with the structure, development, function, chemistry, pharmacology, and pathology of the nervous system.
  • no respecter of — If you say that someone or something is no respecter of a rule or tradition, you mean that the rule or tradition is not important to them.
  • non-feasibility — capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan.
  • non-specificity — the quality or state of being specific.
  • nonconformities — Plural form of nonconformity.
  • nonself-antigen — any of the antigens present in an individual that originate outside the body (contrasted with self-antigen).
  • nontransferable — Not transferable; not able to be transferred.
  • not be yourself — If you say that you are not yourself, you mean you are not feeling well.
  • not to speak of — You can use not to speak of when adding something which your previous statement also applies to, or applies to even more than other things.
  • nutty professor — a professor or academic person who is eccentric or slightly crazy or unusual
  • ocean of storms — the largest of the dark plains (maria) on the surface of the moon, situated in the second and third quadrant
  • office politics — power play in the workplace
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