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16-letter words containing a, f, e, r, m, n

  • gentleman friend — a man with whom a woman is romantically involved; suitor.
  • gentleman-farmer — a man whose wealth or income from other sources permits him to farm for pleasure rather than for basic income.
  • have no time for — not tolerate
  • head normal form — (theory, reduction)   (HNF) A term describing a lambda expression whose top level is either a variable, a data value, a built-in function applied to too few arguments, or a lambda abstraction whose body is not reducible. I.e. the top level is neither a redex nor a lambda abstraction with a reducible body. An expression in HNF may contain redexes in argument postions whereas a normal form may not. Compare Weak Head Normal Form.
  • headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
  • high-performance — A high-performance car or other product goes very fast or does a lot.
  • infernal machine — a concealed or disguised explosive device intended to destroy life or property.
  • information desk — helpdesk, information point
  • ivyleaf geranium — a geranium plant, pelargonium peltatum, with trailing leaves and white, pink, red, or violet flowers
  • kingdom of arles — a kingdom in SE France which had dissolved by 1378: known as the Kingdom of Burgundy until about 1200
  • land-poor farmer — a farmer who owns much unprofitable land and lacks the money to maintain its fertility or improve it
  • maintenance-free — requiring little or no maintenance: a maintenance-free swimming pool.
  • man of few words — man who speaks very little
  • man of the world — a man who is widely experienced in the ways of the world and people; an urbane, sophisticated man.
  • man-of-the-earth — a morning glory, Ipomoea pandurata, of eastern North America, having white flowers and a very large, tuberous root.
  • managerial staff — staff in positions of management
  • manhood suffrage — the right of adult male citizens to vote
  • manufactured gas — a gaseous fuel created from coal, oil, etc., as differentiated from natural gas.
  • margin of safety — therapeutic index.
  • marsh cinquefoil — a variety of cinquefoil, Potentilla palustris, that grows in marshy areas
  • matthew flinders — Matthew, 1774–1814, English navigator and explorer: surveyed coast of Australia.
  • metallofullerene — (chemistry) A fullerene containing an enclosed metal atom.
  • mexican fruitfly — a brightly colored fly, Anastrepha ludens, whose larvae are a serious pest chiefly of citrus fruits and mangoes in Mexico, Central America, and southern Texas.
  • minerva software — A company producing software for the Acorn Archimedes.
  • multifariousness — (uncountable) The characteristic of being multifarious.
  • multilinear form — a function or functional of several variables such that when all variables but one are held fixed, the function is linear in the remaining variable.
  • new frontiersman — an advocate or follower of the New Frontier, especially one in public service.
  • non-manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • outsmart oneself — to have one's efforts at cunning or cleverness result in one's own disadvantage
  • performance bond — contract bond.
  • 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.
  • platform-balance — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
  • post-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
  • professionalisms — professional character, spirit, or methods.
  • ramen profitable — If a startup business is ramen profitable, it is barely profitable, just enough to allow the founder to live on the cheapest diet.
  • reflexive domain — A domain satisfying a recursive domain equation. E.g. D = D -> D.
  • sea fish farming — the farming of saltwater fish
  • self-affirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
  • self-dramatizing — exaggerating one's own qualities, role, situation, etc., for dramatic effect or as an attention-getting device; presenting oneself dramatically.
  • self-proclaiming — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
  • self-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
  • self-terminating — to bring to an end; put an end to: to terminate a contract.
  • semiprofessional — actively engaged in some field or sport for pay but on a part-time basis: semiprofessional baseball players.
  • small/fine print — The small print or the fine print of something such as an advertisement or a contract consists of the technical details and legal conditions, which are often printed in much smaller letters than the rest of the text.
  • smelting furnace — an industrial oven used to heat ore in order to extract metal
  • stonecrop family — the plant family Crassulaceae, characterized by succulent herbaceous plants and shrubs with simple, fleshy leaves, clusters of small flowers, and dry, dehiscent fruit, and including hen-and-chickens, houseleek, kalanchoe, live-forever, orpine, sedum, and stonecrop.
  • sulfarsphenamine — a yellow, water-soluble, arsenic-containing powder, C 1 4 H 1 4 As 2 N 2 Na 2 O 8 S 2 , formerly used in the treatment of syphilis.
  • swiss army knife — a small knife with blades and other tools, such as a nail file and corkscrew, all folding into the handle.
  • tabernacle frame — a frame, especially of the 18th century, around a doorway, niche, etc., that suggests a small building, characteristically one with a pediment and two pilasters on a base.
  • tariff agreement — an agreement between countries or geographical areas relating to taxes levied by governments on imports or occasionally exports for purposes of protection, support of the balance of payments, or the raising of revenue
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