21-letter words containing a, d, r

first-dollar coverage — insurance that provides payment for the full loss up to the insured amount with no deductibles.
first-round financing — First round financing is the first time a new company raises money from investors.
flat-coated retriever — one of an English breed of large sporting dogs having a flat, dense, shiny black or liver-colored coat, small ears, and long jaws, used for retrieving game from both water and land.
fluorophosphoric acid — any of three acids containing fluorine and phosphorus, HPF 6 , HPO 2 F 2 , or H 2 PO 3 F.
food conversion ratio — a ratio expressing the weight of food required to produce a unit gain in the live weight of an animal
food standards agency — the full form of FDA
forward compatibility — (jargon) The ability to accept input from later versions of itself. Forward compatibility is harder to achieve than backward compatibility, since, in the backward case, the input format is know whereas a forward compatible system needs to cope gracefully with unknown future features. An example of future compatibility is the stipulation that a web browser should ignore HTML tags it does not recognise. See also extensible.
forward exchange rate — the exchange rate of a currency to be delivered at a later date
fragmentation grenade — a grenade with a heavy metal casing that shatters, on exploding, into fragments that travel at high speed and with great force.
frankfort on the oder — a city in NE Germany, on the Oder River.
fraudulent conversion — conversion committed with the intent to defraud
frederick william iii — 1770–1840, king of Prussia 1797–1840.
free alongside vessel — (of a shipment of goods) delivered to the dock without charge to the buyer, but excluding the cost of loading onto the vessel
french and indian war — the war in America in which France and its Indian allies opposed England 1754–60: ended by Treaty of Paris in 1763.
french fried potatoes — a more formal name for chips
from dan to beersheba — from one end of Israel to the other: Judg. 20:1
full faith and credit — the obligation under Article IV of the U.S. Constitution for each state to recognize the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state.
fuming sulphuric acid — a mixture of pyrosulphuric acid, H2S2O7, and other condensed acids, made by dissolving sulphur trioxide in concentrated sulphuric acid
fundamental frequency — the lowest frequency at which a medium will freely oscillate.
gamma hydroxybutyrate — a substance that occurs naturally in the brain, used medically as a sedative but also as a recreational drug and alleged aphrodisiac: known as 'liquid ecstasy' when mixed with alcohol
garbageabetical order — (humour) 1. The result of using an insertion sort to merge data into an unsorted list. 2. The state of any file or list that is supposed to be sorted, but is not.
garden of remembrance — an area of land containing cultivated plants, trees, etc, to commemorate the dead
gas analysis recorder — A gas analysis recorder is a device which samples, records, and analyses gas.
gas blanketed storage — Gas blanketed storage is the use of gas to fill empty space in a storage tank.
gaussian distribution — normal distribution
gender disappointment — a feeling of depression or anxiety experienced by an expectant parent when the gender of the baby does not match his or her preference
gentleman of the road — a highwayman.
gideons international — an interdenominational lay society organized in 1899 to place Bibles in hotel rooms.
giovanni da verrazano — Giovanni da [jaw-vahn-nee dah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni dɑ/ (Show IPA), c1480–1527? Italian navigator and explorer.
give a horse its head — to allow a horse to gallop by lengthening the reins
give sb the runaround — If someone gives you the runaround, they deliberately do not give you all the information or help that you want, and send you to another person or place to get it.
go down the wrong way — (of food) to pass into the windpipe instead of the gullet
gold bullion standard — a gold standard in which gold is not coined but may be purchased at a fixed price for foreign exchange.
goldbach's conjecture — the conjecture that every even number greater than two is the sum of two prime numbers
got what one deserved — If you say that someone got what they deserved, you mean that they deserved the bad thing that happened to them, and you have no sympathy for them.
government department — a sector of a national or state government that deals with a particular area of interest
great st bernard pass — St. Bernard, Great.
great victoria desert — a desert in SW central Australia. 125,000 sq. mi. (324,000 sq. km).
greater sunda islands — a group of islands in the W Malay Archipelago, forming the larger part of the Sunda Islands: consists of Borneo, Sumatra, Java, and Sulawesi
green river ordinance — a local ordinance banning door-to-door selling.
ground-effect machine — ACV (def 2).
guaranteed scheduling — (algorithm) A scheduling algorithm used in multitasking operating systems that guarantees fairness by monitoring the amount of CPU time spent by each user and allocating resources accordingly.
have heard sth before — If you say that you have heard something before, you mean that you are not interested in it, or do not believe it, or are not surprised about it, because you already know about it or have experienced it.
have one's cards read — If you have your cards read, you have your fortune told by someone who uses playing cards or tarot cards to tell you about yourself and predict your future.
have the inside track — If you say that someone has the inside track, you mean that they have an advantage, for example special knowledge about something.
hazard warning device — an appliance fitted to a motor vehicle that operates the hazard lights
hierarchical database — (database) A kind of database management system that links records together like a family tree such that each record type has only one owner, e.g. an order is owned by only one customer. Hierarchical structures were widely used in the first mainframe database management systems. However, due to their restrictions, they often cannot be used to relate structures that exist in the real world.
hildegard (of bingen) — Saint(1098-1179); Ger. nun, composer, & mystic: her day is Sept. 17
hindu-arabic numerals — Arabic numeral.
horns and halo effect — a tendency to allow one's judgement of another person, esp in a job interview, to be unduly influenced by an unfavourable (horns) or favourable (halo) first impression based on appearances

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