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15-letter words containing s, f, e, r, i

  • giant sunflower — a composite plant, Helianthus giganteus, of eastern North America, growing nearly 12 feet (4 meters) high and having very large yellow flower heads.
  • golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
  • graveyard shift — a work shift usually beginning at about midnight and continuing for about eight hours through the early morning hours.
  • greenfield site — a site located in a rural area which has not previously been built on
  • heralds' office — the official heraldic authority of Scotland.
  • hit the buffers — to finish or be stopped, esp unexpectedly
  • hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
  • imperfect stage — a phase in the life cycle of certain fungi in which either no spores or asexual spores, as conidia, are produced.
  • inertial fusion — a type of nuclear fusion in which the inertia of matter enables it to fuse by impact, as by pulses of laser radiation or high-energy charged particles, rather than by high temperature
  • infinite series — a sequence of numbers in which an infinite number of terms are added successively in a given pattern; the sequence of partial sums of a given sequence.
  • informativeness — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
  • infrastructures — Plural form of infrastructure.
  • interfascicular — pertaining to or forming a fascicle; fasciculate.
  • interferometers — Plural form of interferometer.
  • interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
  • interstratified — Stratified with two alternating types of strata.
  • interstratifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interstratify.
  • irrespective of — regardless of sth
  • island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
  • jefferson davis — Alexander Jackson, 1803–92, U.S. architect.
  • jeffersonianism — pertaining to or advocating the political principles and doctrines of Thomas Jefferson, especially those stressing minimum control by the central government, the inalienable rights of the individual, and the superiority of an agrarian economy and rural society.
  • kidasa software — (company)   A company which develops project management software for Microsoft Windows.
  • knife-sharpener — a kitchen implement that is used to sharpen knives
  • lake miraflores — an artificial lake in Panama, in the S Canal Zone of the Panama Canal
  • land of promise — Promised Land.
  • lateral fissure — the fissure separating the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes of the cerebrum.
  • liaison officer — a person who liaises between groups or units
  • life membership — the fact or condition of being a life member
  • liver of sulfur — sulfurated potash.
  • loft conversion — an extra room added to a house by converting the roof space
  • longshore drift — beach drift.
  • lord of misrule — (in England) a person formerly chosen to direct the Christmas revels and sports.
  • 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.
  • maid of orléans — Saint ("the Maid of Orléans") 1412?–31, French national heroine and martyr who raised the siege of Orléans.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • moccasin flower — the lady's-slipper.
  • mortiferousness — deadliness
  • multiflora rose — a climbing or trailing rose, Rosa multiflora, of Japan and Korea, having hooked prickles and fragrant, dense clusters of flowers.
  • national forest — forested land owned, maintained, and preserved by the U.S. government.
  • neuroscientific — the field of study encompassing the various scientific disciplines dealing with the structure, development, function, chemistry, pharmacology, and pathology of the nervous system.
  • nonconformities — Plural form of nonconformity.
  • nonprofessional — not a member of or trained in a specific profession.
  • nonprofessorial — not professorial
  • nuclear fission — fission (def 2).
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