15-letter words containing se
- exchange server — Microsoft Exchange
- expense account — account for expenses
- explain oneself — to make clear what one means
- express oneself — to communicate one's thoughts or ideas
- false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
- false decretals — the Pseudo-Isidorian documents.
- false hellebore — any of various plants belonging to the genus Veratrum, of the lily family, especially a North American species, V. viride, which has clusters of yellowish-green flowers and is the source of substances used in certain medicines and insecticides.
- false miterwort — foamflower.
- false pregnancy — physiological signs of pregnancy without conception; pseudocyesis.
- false pretences — fraud, deception
- false pretenses — If you do something under false pretenses, you do it when people do not know the truth about you and your intentions.
- federal reserve — In the United States, the Federal Reserve is the central banking system, which is responsible for setting policy on monetary matters such as money supply and interest rates.
- fee-for-service — pertaining to the charging of fees for specific services rendered in health care, as distinguished from participating in a prepaid medical practice: fee-for-service medicine.
- first messenger — a hormone that triggers a biochemical reaction at a site removed from its release.
- first secretary — The First Secretary of the Welsh Assembly is the leader of the ruling party.
- flatter oneself — to hold the self-satisfying or self-deluding belief (that)
- flight sergeant — a noncommissioned officer in the Royal Air Force junior in rank to a master aircrew
- floor exercises — exercises designed to improve fitness, carried out on the floor
- food insecurity — an economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
- fool's paradise — a state of enjoyment based on false beliefs or hopes; a state of illusory happiness.
- football season — annual period when soccer is played
- for the present — being, existing, or occurring at this time or now; current: increasing respect for the present ruler of the small country.
- foreign service — a division of the U.S. Department of State or of a foreign office that maintains diplomatic and consular posts and personnel in other countries.
- franz joseph ii — 1906–1989, prince of Liechtenstein 1938–89.
- free enterprise — an economic and political doctrine holding that a capitalist economy can regulate itself in a freely competitive market through the relationship of supply and demand with a minimum of governmental intervention and regulation.
- french guianese — an overseas department of France, on the NE coast of South America: formerly a French colony. 35,135 sq. mi. (91,000 sq. km). Capital: Cayenne.
- ft-se 100 index — Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Index
- fulfill oneself — to realize completely one's ambitions, potentialities, etc.
- full of oneself — full of pride or conceit; egoistic
- fuller's teasel — a Eurasian teasel plant, Dipsacus fullonum, whose prickly flower heads are used for raising the nap on woollen cloth
- funeral service — ceremony at a burial or cremation
- gambling losses — money lost as a result of playing games of chance for money
- gene sequencing — the determination of the order in which a particular gene's nucleotides are arranged
- general servant — a domestic servant who performs general tasks
- general-purpose — useful in many ways; not limited in use or function: a good general-purpose dictionary.
- get wise to sth — If you get wise to something, you find out about it, especially when someone has been trying to keep it secret.
- girdle traverse — a climb that consists of a complete traverse of a face or crag
- gopher tortoise — any North American burrowing tortoise of the genus Gopherus, especially G. polyphemus, of the southeastern U.S.: several species are now reduced in number.
- grand serjeanty — serjeanty in which the tenant rendered services of a personal, honorary nature to the king, as carrying his sword or banner.
- grand staircase — a large and impressive staircase
- graves' disease — a disease characterized by an enlarged thyroid, a rapid pulse, and increased basal metabolism due to excessive thyroid secretion; exophthalmic goiter.
- ground observer — a person stationed in a position on the ground to watch, follow, and report on flights of aircraft, especially of enemy aircraft.
- group separator — (character) (GS) ASCII character 29.
- gulf of fonseca — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in W Central America
- hang seng index — an index of share prices based on an average of 33 stocks quoted on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
- hardship clause — a clause in a contract which covers unforeseen events that would make it more difficult for one party to complete the contract, and in which case offers alternative terms
- harmonic series — a series in which the reciprocals of the terms form an arithmetic progression.
- have no use for — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
- heart-searching — a thorough examination of one's feelings and motives; a self-examination of one's conscience.
- help oneself to — to serve or provide oneself with (food, etc.)