15-letter words containing s, o, n, f, a
- fishing harbour — a place where fishing boats are tied up
- fission reactor — a nuclear reactor in which a fission reaction takes place
- fissiparousness — The quality of being fissiparous.
- flatter oneself — to hold the self-satisfying or self-deluding belief (that)
- flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
- flavourlessness — Alternative spelling of flavorlessness.
- flavoursomeness — Alt form flavorsomeness.
- flesh and blood — offspring or relatives: one's own flesh and blood.
- flirtatiousness — The quality of being flirtatious.
- floating island — a dessert consisting of boiled custard with portions of meringue, whipped cream, or whipped egg whites and sometimes jelly floating upon it or around it.
- floating screed — Building Trades. screed (def 3).
- floating supply — the aggregate supply of ready-to-market goods or securities.
- flood insurance — insurance covering loss or damage to property arising from a flood, flood tide, or the like.
- fluoridationist — One who supports the addition of fluoride to the public water supply.
- fob destination — FOB destination is a shipping term indicating that ownership of goods passes at delivery to their destination, and the seller has total responsibility until then.
- football season — annual period when soccer is played
- for some reason — for an unknown reason
- for their pains — You say that something was all you got for your pains when you are mentioning the disappointing result of situation into which you put a lot of work or effort.
- foreign affairs — politics: international relations
- forest of arden — a region of N Warwickshire, part of a former forest: scene of Shakespeare's As You Like It
- formation rules — the set of rules that specify the syntax of a formal system; the algorithm that generates the well-formed formulae
- foundationalism — (epistemology) The doctrine that beliefs derive justification from certain basic beliefs.
- fountains abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Ripon in Yorkshire: founded 1132, dissolved 1539; landscaped 1720
- fovea centralis — a small pit or depression at the back of the retina forming the point of sharpest vision.
- franz joseph ii — 1906–1989, prince of Liechtenstein 1938–89.
- freestone state — Connecticut (used as a nickname).
- front-page news — a story printed on the first page of a newspaper
- fructifications — Plural form of fructification.
- fully fashioned — (of stockings, knitwear, etc) shaped and seamed so as to fit closely
- functionalistic — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- functionalities — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- garrison finish — the finish of a race, especially a horse race, in which the winner comes from behind to win at the last moment.
- 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.
- go up in flames — be burned
- golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
- grafenberg spot — a patch of tissue in the front wall of the vagina, claimed to be erectile and highly erogenous.
- gulf of fonseca — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in W Central America
- half-understood — partially understood
- have no use for — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
- hoffman estates — a city in NE Illinois.
- housewifization — The process by which the division of labor has relegated women into housewives.
- humidifications — Plural form of humidification.
- identifications — Plural form of identification.
- in the hands of — under the control of
- in the shape of — You can use in the shape of to state exactly who or what you are referring to, immediately after referring to them in a general way.
- inefficaciously — Without efficacy or effect.
- 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
- infants' school — kindergarten.
- informativeness — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- intensification — to make intense or more intense.