15-letter words containing y, i, t, 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.
- 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.
- first secretary — The First Secretary of the Welsh Assembly is the leader of the ruling party.
- first-day cover — a cover marked so as to indicate that it was mailed on the first day of issue of the stamp it bears and from one of the cities at which the stamp was issued on that day.
- fixed liability — a liability, as a mortgage or debenture, that will not mature for a relatively long time.
- fixed-do system — a system of solmization in which the syllable do is always C, regardless of the key.
- 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.
- food insecurity — an economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
- for a certainty — without doubt
- for pity's sake — You can say for pity's sake to add emphasis to what you are saying, especially when you are annoyed or upset.
- fortysomethings — Plural form of fortysomething.
- fountain valley — a city in SW California.
- fountains abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Ripon in Yorkshire: founded 1132, dissolved 1539; landscaped 1720
- 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.
- free university — a school run informally by and for college students, organized to offer courses and approaches not usually offered in a college curriculum.
- gaia hypothesis — a model of the earth as a self-regulating organism, advanced as an alternative to a mechanistic model.
- gated community — a group of houses or apartment buildings protected by gates, walls, or other security measures.
- 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.
- geodetic survey — a land area survey in which the curvature of the surface of the earth is taken into account.
- 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.
- graveyard shift — a work shift usually beginning at about midnight and continuing for about eight hours through the early morning hours.
- gravimetrically — (chemistry) Using a gravimetric method.
- great white way — the theater district along Broadway, near Times Square in New York City.
- green with envy — If you say that someone is green with envy, you mean that they are very envious indeed.
- griffith-joyner — Florence, known as Flojo. 1959–98, US sprinter, winner of two gold medals at the 1988 Olympic Games
- guidance system — The guidance system of a missile or rocket is the device which controls its course.
- gyrostabilizers — Plural form of gyrostabilizer.
- hair hygrometer — a hygrometer actuated by the changes in length of a strand of human hair brought about by changes in the relative humidity.
- have a way with — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- have itchy feet — to be restless; have a desire to travel
- hay conditioner — either of two machines, one designed to crush stems of hay, the other to break and bend them, in order to cause more rapid and even drying
- heartbreakingly — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
- heavy artillery — guns and howitzers of large caliber.
- heavy breathing — stertorous breathing or breathing done with difficulty
- heliocentricity — measured or considered as being seen from the center of the sun.
- heliometrically — By means of, or in terms of, heliometry.
- hematoporphyria — porphyria.
- hematoporphyrin — a porphyrin made by treating haemoglobin with acid, used to treat cancer in photodynamic therapy
- hemicraniectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of half of the cranium to enable brain surgery; hemicraniotomy.
- hemicryptophyte — any perennial plant that bears its overwintering buds at soil level, where they are often partly covered by surface debris