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

  • treaty of paris — a treaty of 1763 signed by Britain, France, and Spain that ended their involvement in the Seven Years' War
  • tree of sadness — night jasmine (def 1).
  • trout fisherman — a fisherman who catches trout
  • true-false test — a test requiring one to mark statements as true or false.
  • tufted titmouse — a gray titmouse, Parus bicolor, of the eastern and midwestern U.S., having a crested head.
  • twist the knife — to make a bad situation worse in a deliberately malicious way
  • unfamiliarities — not familiar; not acquainted with or conversant about: to be unfamiliar with a subject.
  • university fees — charges made by a university for the administering of a course of study or an examination
  • unsatisfiedness — the state of being unsatisfied
  • unsteadfastness — the condition of being unsteadfast
  • velcro fastener — a fastener made of Velcro
  • venus's-flytrap — a carnivorous plant, Dionaea muscipula, native to bogs of North and South Carolina, having roundish leaves with two lobes that close like a trap when certain delicate hairs on them are irritated, as by a fly: the range is now reduced, though the plants are still locally abundant.
  • vestimentiferan — any of various marine tubeworms of the phylum Vestimentifera or Pogonophora, which live in upright tubes near hydrothermal vents.
  • visser 't hooft — Willem Adolf [vil-uh m ah-dawlf] /ˈvɪl əm ˈɑ dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1900–85, Dutch Protestant clergyman and writer: leader in ecumenical movement.
  • waterford glass — fine cut or gilded glass made in Waterford, Ireland, having a slight blue cast due to the presence of cobalt.
  • welfare statism — the belief in or practices of a welfare state.
  • west nile fever — a viral disease, caused by a flavivirus and spread by a mosquito (Culex pipiens), that results in encephalitis
  • west wind drift — Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
  • widow's benefit — (in the British National Insurance scheme) a former weekly payment made to a widow
  • wish fulfilment — (in Freudian psychology) any successful attempt to fulfil a wish stemming from the unconscious mind, whether in fact, in fantasy, or by such disguised means as sublimation
  • witch of agnesi — a plane curve symmetrical about the y- axis and asymptotic to the x- axis, given by the equation x 2 y =4 a 2 (2 a − y).
  • wolf-rayet star — a very hot (35,000–100,000 K) and luminous star in the early stages of evolution, with broad emission lines in its spectrum.
  • wrongful arrest — the act of arresting someone without proper reason
  • yeast infection — candida: genital inflammation
  • yellow goatfish — a schooling goatfish, Mulloidichthys martinicus, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Panama.
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