15-letter words containing s, f, e
- 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.
- kingdom of ends — (in Kantian ethics) a metaphorical realm to which belong those persons acting and being acted upon in accordance with moral law.
- 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.
- 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.
- law of averages — a statistical principle formulated by Jakob Bernoulli to show a more or less predictable ratio between the number of random trials of an event and its occurrences.
- 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.
- leaves of grass — a book of poems (first edition, 1855; final edition, 1891–92) by Walt Whitman.
- legacy software — legacy system
- let yourself go — If you let yourself go, you relax and behave much more freely than usual.
- liaison officer — a person who liaises between groups or units
- life membership — the fact or condition of being a life member
- lifestyle block — a semi-rural property comprising a house and land for small-scale farming
- line of apsides — a line joining the lower and higher apsides, forming the major axis of the orbit
- line of descent — someone's line of descent is all the people they are descended from
- liver of sulfur — sulfurated potash.
- 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
- long-sufferance — long-suffering.
- longshore drift — beach drift.
- lopez y fuentes — Gregorio [gre-gaw-ryaw] /grɛˈgɔ ryɔ/ (Show IPA), 1895–1966, Mexican writer.
- 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.
- make a hames of — to spoil through clumsiness or ineptitude
- make tracks for — to go or head towards
- marfan syndrome — a hereditary disorder characterized by abnormally elongated bones, especially in the extremities, hypermotility of the joints, and circulatory and eye abnormalities.
- 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.
- mellifluousness — sweetly or smoothly flowing; sweet-sounding: a mellifluous voice; mellifluous tones.
- member of staff — an employee of a particular organization
- menomonee falls — a city in SE Wisconsin, NW of Milwaukee.
- 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.
- moccasin flower — the lady's-slipper.
- 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