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15-letter words containing t, i, l, e, y

  • fair employment — the policy or practice of employing people on the basis of their capabilities only, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability.
  • family practice — medical specialization in general practice, requiring training beyond that of general practice and leading to board certification.
  • family skeleton — a closely guarded family secret
  • 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.
  • ferroelasticity — (physics) A phenomenon, analogous to ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity, in which spontaneous strain arises within a material.
  • fetishistically — in a fetishistic manner
  • field artillery — artillery mobile enough to accompany troops in the field.
  • field intensity — the vector sum of all forces exerted by a field on a unit mass, unit charge, unit magnetic pole, etc., at a given point within the field.
  • fixed liability — a liability, as a mortgage or debenture, that will not mature for a relatively long time.
  • 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.
  • flying fortress — a heavy bomber, the B-17, with four radial piston engines, widely used over Europe and the Mediterranean by the U.S. Air Force in World War II.
  • fountain valley — a city in SW California.
  • free soil party — a former U.S. political party (1848–56) that opposed the extension of slavery in the Territories not yet admitted to statehood.
  • gender equality — the state of having the same rights, status, and opportunities as others, regardless of one's gender.
  • genetic fallacy — the fallacy of confusing questions of validity and logical order with questions of origin and temporal order.
  • geomagnetically — In a geomagnetic way; through geomagnetism.
  • geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
  • geotectonically — from a geotectonic point of view
  • gloucester city — a city in W New Jersey, on the Delaware River.
  • governmentality — (sociology) The organized practices (mentalities, rationalities, and techniques) through which subjects are governed and influenced.
  • grandiloquently — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • gravimetrically — (chemistry) Using a gravimetric method.
  • gyrostabilizers — Plural form of gyrostabilizer.
  • heartbreakingly — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
  • heavy artillery — guns and howitzers of large caliber.
  • heliocentricity — measured or considered as being seen from the center of the sun.
  • heliometrically — By means of, or in terms of, heliometry.
  • hemiglossectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of a portion of the tongue.
  • hermeneutically — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
  • heterocercality — the condition or state of having a heterocercal tail
  • heterosexuality — sexual feeling or behavior directed toward a person or persons of the opposite sex.
  • high technology — any technology requiring the most sophisticated scientific equipment and advanced engineering techniques, as microelectronics, data processing, genetic engineering, or telecommunications (opposed to low technology).
  • histochemically — In a histochemical manner.
  • holiday clothes — the clothes worn and bought for travelling on holiday, such as swimwear, skiwear, or clothes for hot or cold weather, etc
  • holiday cottage — a cottage used for accommodation for a family, couple, etc, on holiday
  • holocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having only crystalline components and no glass
  • homeopathically — By means of homeopathy.
  • homeostatically — the tendency of a system, especially the physiological system of higher animals, to maintain internal stability, owing to the coordinated response of its parts to any situation or stimulus that would tend to disturb its normal condition or function.
  • horse artillery — cavalry equipped with artillery
  • hydroxylapatite — Alternative spelling of hydroxyapatite.
  • hyper-emotional — pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions.
  • hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
  • hypercatalectic — (of a line of verse) containing an additional syllable after the last dipody or foot. Compare acatalectic (def 2), catalectic.
  • hypercritically — In a hypercritical manner.
  • hyperextensible — Capable of being stretched and extended.
  • hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
  • hyperinvolution — a decrease in the size of an organ following enlargement, usually used to describe the shrinking of the uterus after childbirth
  • hypermetabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
  • hypermutability — liable or subject to change or alteration.
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