16-letter words containing a, c, t, o, f

narcotrafficking — the buying and selling of illegal drugs.
neo-confucianist — of or relating to neo-Confucians or neo-Confucianism.
no-fault divorce — a divorce granted without anyone being found guilty of marital misconduct
non-confidential — spoken, written, acted on, etc., in strict privacy or secrecy; secret: a confidential remark.
non-confirmation — the act of confirming.
non-confirmatory — serving to confirm; corroborative.
non-manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
non-satisfaction — an act of satisfying; fulfillment; gratification.
nonfinite clause — a clause with a nonfinite verb or with no verb, as the hour being late in The hour being late, we left.
nonmanufacturing — (economics) Outside of the manufacturing sector.
oak leaf cluster — a U.S. military decoration in the form of a small bronze twig bearing four oak leaves and three acorns, worn on the ribbon of another decoration for valor, wounds, or distinguished service to signify a second award of the same medal.
of a certain age — of an unspecified age, but no longer young
of it own accord — If something happens of its own accord, it seems to happen by itself, without anyone making it happen.
on the back foot — at a disadvantage; outmanoeuvred or outclassed by an opponent
one's cup of tea — the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
one-way function — (cryptography, mathematics) A function which is easy to compute but whose inverse is very difficult to compute. Such functions have important applications in cryptography, specifically in public-key cryptography. See also: trapdoor function.
ordnance factory — a factory that makes military weapons and ammunition
orthoformic acid — a hypothetical acid, HC(OH) 3 , known only in the form of its esters.
out of character — the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing.
pacific sturgeon — a dark gray sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus, inhabiting marine and fresh waters along the northwestern coast of North America, valued as a food and sport fish.
packing fraction — Physics. a measure of the stability of an atomic nucleus, equal to 10 4 multiplied by the mass defect and divided by the mass number.
partial fraction — one of the fractions into which a given fraction can be resolved, the sum of such simpler fractions being equal to the given fraction: Partial fractions of 5/(x2−x) are 5/(x−1) and −5/x.
partial function — A function which is not defined for all arguments of its input type. E.g. f(x) = 1/x if x /= 0. The opposite of a total function. In denotational semantics, a partial function f : D -> C may be represented as a total function ft : D' -> lift(C) where D' is a superset of D and ft x = f x if x in D ft x = bottom otherwise where lift(C) = C U bottom. Bottom (LaTeX \perp) denotes "undefined".
perforated ulcer — an ulcer that bursts through the stomach wall and leaks food and gastric juices into the abdominal cavity
performance test — a test requiring little or no use of language, the test materials being designed to elicit manual or behavioral responses rather than verbal ones.
personal effects — belongings
placement office — an office in a university that offers students careers advice and help to find employment
platform-balance — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
point of contact — (networking) (POC) An individual associated with a particular Internet entity (IP network, domain, ASN).
powerpc platform — (architecture, standard) (PPCP, PReP - PowerPC Reference Platform, formerly CHRP - Common Hardware Reference Platform) An open system standard, designed by IBM, intended to ensure compatibility among PowerPC-based systems built by different companies. The PReP standard specifies the PCI bus, but will also support ISA, MicroChannel and PCMCIA. PReP-compliant systems will be able to run the Macintosh OS, OS/2, WorkplaceOS, AIX, Solaris, Taligent and Windows NT. IBM systems will (of course) be PReP-compliant. Apple's first PowerPC Macintoshes will not be compliant, but future ones may be.
prespecification — the act of specifying.
question of fact — a question concerning the reality of an alleged event or circumstance in a trial by jury, usually determined by the jury.
radius of action — the maximum distance that a ship, aircraft, or land vehicle can travel from its base and return without refuelling
rape of the lock — a mock-epic poem (1712) by Alexander Pope.
rate of exchange — exchange rate.
reclassification — categorization in a different way
reflection plane — a plane through a crystal that divides the crystal into two halves that are mirror images of each other.
refrigerator car — a freight car having either an ice chest or machinery for chilling perishables and sometimes having a heating unit to keep perishables from freezing.
reidentification — an act or instance of identifying; the state of being identified.
releasing factor — a substance usually of hypothalamic origin that triggers the release of a particular hormone from an endocrine gland.
rich text format — (RTF) An interchange format from Microsoft for exchange of documents between Word and other document preparation systems.
right about face — Military. a command, given to a soldier or soldiers at attention, to turn the body about toward the right so as to face in the opposite direction. the act of so turning in a prescribed military manner.
romantic fiction — a genre of fiction focused on romantic love
saccharification — to convert (starch) into sugar.
safety-conscious — conscious of being safe and preventing danger
scotch blackface — one of a Scottish breed of mountain sheep having a black face and growing long, coarse wool.
self-containment — the state of being self-contained.
self-cultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
self-deprecation — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
self-deprecatory — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.

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