15-letter words containing s, t, u, f, e
- fauntleroy suit — a formal outfit for a boy composed of a hip-length jacket and knee-length pants, often in black velvet, and a wide, lacy collar and cuffs, usually worn with a broad sash at the waist and sometimes a large, loose bow at the neck, popular in the late 19th century.
- ferrous sulfate — a bluish-green, crystalline, saline-tasting, water-soluble heptahydrated solid, FeSO 4 ⋅7H 2 O, used chiefly in the manufacture of other iron salts, in water purification, fertilizer, inks, pigments, tanning, photography, and in medicine in the treatment of anemia.
- fish restaurant — a restaurant which serves mainly fish
- fleet insurance — Fleet insurance is a type of insurance contract that applies to a number of vehicles.
- flirtatiousness — The quality of being flirtatious.
- floral tributes — bunches or arrangements of flowers left as a memorial at the site of a fatal incident
- fluorophosphate — a salt or ester of a fluorophosphoric acid.
- flying buttress — a segmental arch transmitting an outward and downward thrust to a solid buttress that through its inertia transforms the thrust into a vertical one.
- food insecurity — an economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
- food supplement — a substance designed to make up for a deficiency in one's diet
- force the issue — to compel decision on some matter
- formation rules — the set of rules that specify the syntax of a formal system; the algorithm that generates the well-formed formulae
- foster daughter — a girl raised like one's own daughter, though not such by birth or adoption.
- foul one's nest — grossly offensive to the senses; disgustingly loathsome; noisome: a foul smell.
- fountains abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Ripon in Yorkshire: founded 1132, dissolved 1539; landscaped 1720
- four-poster bed — bed: post at each corner
- fourteen points — a statement of the war aims of the Allies, made by President Wilson on January 8, 1918.
- fourteen-points — a statement of the war aims of the Allies, made by President Wilson on January 8, 1918.
- francis turbine — a water turbine designed to produce high flow from a low head of pressure: used esp in hydroelectric power generation
- free university — a school run informally by and for college students, organized to offer courses and approaches not usually offered in a college curriculum.
- freshwater drum — an edible drum, Aplodinotus grunniens, of the fresh waters of North and Central America, sometimes reaching a weight of 60 pounds (27 kg).
- fuller's teasel — a Eurasian teasel plant, Dipsacus fullonum, whose prickly flower heads are used for raising the nap on woollen cloth
- functionalities — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- fundamentalists — Plural form of fundamentalist.
- fundamentalness — The state or condition of being fundamental; essential importance.
- furniture store — shop: sells furnishings
- fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
- fusospirochetes — Plural form of fusospirochete.
- future interest — an interest in personal or real property, the possession and enjoyment of which is to commence at a later date.
- ghetto fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
- ghetto-fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
- 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.
- gift of tongues — speaking in tongues.
- guest of honour — If you say that someone is the guest of honour at a dinner or other social occasion, you mean that they are the most important guest.
- half-understood — partially understood
- hit the buffers — to finish or be stopped, esp unexpectedly
- hopeful monster — a hypothetical individual organism that, by means of a fortuitous macromutation permitting an adaptive shift to a new mode of life, becomes the founder of a new type of organism and a vehicle of macroevolution.
- housewifization — The process by which the division of labor has relegated women into housewives.
- housing benefit — In Britain, housing benefit is money that the government gives to people with no income or very low incomes to pay for part or all of their rent.
- hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
- in difficulties — in distress, esp. financially
- ineffectualness — Inefficacy.
- 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
- infrastructures — Plural form of infrastructure.
- insight-fulness — characterized by or displaying insight; perceptive.
- interfascicular — pertaining to or forming a fascicle; fasciculate.
- interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
- 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
- justifiableness — Justifiability.
- lateral fissure — the fissure separating the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes of the cerebrum.