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15-letter words that end in t

  • file management — the work of organizing and arranging files in a computer
  • find one's feet — to become capable or confident, as in a new job
  • finger alphabet — a series of shapes made by the fingers that indicate letters of an alphabet and can be used in fingerspelling for the deaf
  • fire department — the department of a municipal government charged with the prevention and extinguishing of fire.
  • fire-and-forget — used to describe a type of missile that, once fired, is able to guide itself to its target
  • first amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, prohibiting Congress from interfering with freedom of religion, speech, assembly, or petition.
  • fish restaurant — a restaurant which serves mainly fish
  • fission product — a nuclide produced either directly by nuclear fission or by the radioactive decay of such a nuclide
  • flag lieutenant — an admiral's ADC
  • flame retardant — a compound used in cloth and plastic material to raise the ignition point of the material, thus making it resistant to fire.
  • flame-arc light — an arc light that uses flame carbons to colour the arc
  • flame-retardant — Flame-retardant is the same as fire-retardant.
  • flemish brabant — a province of central Belgium, formed in 1995 from the N part of Brabant province: densely populated and intensively farmed, with large industrial centres. Pop: 1 031 904 (2004 est). Area: 2106 sq km (813 sq miles)
  • flibbertigibbet — a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
  • flight sergeant — a noncommissioned officer in the Royal Air Force junior in rank to a master aircrew
  • flimflam artist — trickster; swindler
  • florida current — the part of the Gulf Stream which extends from the Florida Strait to Cape Hatteras.
  • flowering plant — a plant that produces flowers, fruit, and seeds; angiosperm.
  • fluoridationist — One who supports the addition of fluoride to the public water supply.
  • follow-up visit — a visit made as a follow-up to an initial visit
  • food supplement — a substance designed to make up for a deficiency in one's diet
  • for the present — being, existing, or occurring at this time or now; current: increasing respect for the present ruler of the small country.
  • forbidden fruit — the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, tasted by Adam and Eve against God's prohibition. Gen. 2:17; 3:3.
  • fore-topgallant — being a sail, yard, or rigging belonging to a fore-topgallant mast.
  • forensic expert — an expert in applying scientific, technical or medical knowledge to the purposes of law
  • forget about it — don't mention it, you're welcome
  • formal argument — (programming)   (Or "parameter") A name in a function or subroutine definition that is replaced by, or bound to, the corresponding actual argument when the function or subroutine is called. In many languages formal arguments behave like local variables which get initialised on entry. See: argument.
  • foul one's nest — grossly offensive to the senses; disgustingly loathsome; noisome: a foul smell.
  • free-tailed bat — any of various small, swift, insect-eating bats of the family Molossidae, common in warm climates, having thick, leathery ears and a tail that projects well beyond the tail membrane.
  • friend at court — a friend in a position of influence or power who may advance one's interests, especially a helpful person who is close to someone in authority.
  • fringing forest — gallery forest.
  • full employment — all of workforce is employed
  • functional unit — A subsystem of the central processing unit of a computer. E.g. arithmetic and logic unit, memory address register, barrel shifter, register file.
  • furniture depot — a shop that sells the movable, generally functional, articles that equip a room, house, etc
  • future interest — an interest in personal or real property, the possession and enjoyment of which is to commence at a later date.
  • galloping-ghost — Harold ("Red"; "the Galloping Ghost") 1903–1991, U.S. football player.
  • gamma ray burst — a short-lived, extremely luminous burst of gamma radiation from an unknown astronomical source, occurring at random positions in the sky several times a day. Abbreviation: GRB.
  • gamma-ray burst — a short-lived, extremely luminous burst of gamma radiation from an unknown astronomical source, occurring at random positions in the sky several times a day. Abbreviation: GRB.
  • garbage collect — garbage collection
  • gas oil contact — In a reservoir, gas oil contact is the area containing a mix of gas and oil, below which there is mainly oil and above which there is mainly gas.
  • general servant — a domestic servant who performs general tasks
  • generating unit — a unit that generates electricity
  • geochronologist — A geologist whose speciality is geochronology.
  • geomorphogenist — one who studies, or is an expert in, geomorphogeny
  • geomorphologist — A geologist whose speciality is geomorphology.
  • give sth a rest — If someone tells you to give something a rest, they want you to stop doing it because it annoys them or because they think it is harming you.
  • gladbach-rheydt — a former city in W Germany; now part of Mönchengladbach.
  • glazier's point — a small, pointed piece of sheet metal, for holding a pane of glass in a sash until the putty has hardened.
  • golden pheasant — an Asiatic pheasant, Chrysolophus pictus, having brilliant scarlet, orange, gold, green, and black plumage.
  • goodness of fit — the extent to which observed sample values of a variable approximate to values derived from a theoretical density, often measured by a chi-square test
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