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16-letter words containing a, f, o, r, e, g

  • a blaze of glory — If you go out in a blaze of glory, you do something very dramatic at the end of your career or your life which makes you famous.
  • amending formula — a specified process or procedure by which a constitution may be amended
  • authority figure — a person whose real or apparent authority over others inspires or demands obedience and emulation: Parents, teachers, and police officers are traditional authority figures for children.
  • boarding officer — a coastguard who boards ships suspected of carrying illegal cargoes or posing a security risk
  • cabbage root fly — a dipterous fly, Erioischia brassicae, whose larvae feed on the roots and stems of cabbages and other brassicas: family Muscidae (houseflies, etc)
  • congo free state — a former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • day of reckoning — If someone talks about the day of reckoning, they mean a day or time in the future when people will be forced to deal with an unpleasant situation which they have avoided until now.
  • deflationary gap — a situation in which total spending in an economy is insufficient to buy all the output that can be produced with full employment
  • drag coefficient — a measure of the drag of an object in a moving fluid, esp air
  • edsel ford range — a mountain range in Antarctica, E of the Ross Sea.
  • face recognition — the ability of a computer to scan, store, and recognize human faces for use in identifying people
  • false dragonhead — a North American plant, Physostegia virginiana, of the mint family, having a spike of tubular, two-lipped, pink or white flowers.
  • fandango on core — (jargon, programming)   (Unix/C, from the Mexican dance) In C, a wild pointer that runs out of bounds, causing a core dump, or corrupts the malloc arena in such a way as to cause mysterious failures later on, is sometimes said to have "done a fandango on core". On low-end personal machines without an MMU, this can corrupt the operating system itself, causing massive lossage. Other frenetic dances such as the rhumba, cha-cha, or watusi, may be substituted. See aliasing bug, precedence lossage, smash the stack, memory leak, memory smash, overrun screw, core.
  • fashion designer — creator of clothing designs
  • father-surrogate — a male who replaces an absent father and becomes an object of attachment.
  • feel-good factor — When journalists refer to the feel-good factor, they mean that people are feeling hopeful and optimistic about the future.
  • fellow passenger — a person travelling on the same vehicle, plane, ship etc as you
  • feulgen reaction — a reaction in which an aldehyde combines with a modified Schiff's reagent to produce a purplish compound: used especially to test for the presence of DNA
  • fifth-generation — denoting developments in computer design to produce machines with artificial intelligence
  • fire regulations — rules intended to make sure that people and property stay safe in the event of a fire
  • first generation — 1.   (architecture)   first generation computer. 2.   (language)   first generation language.
  • first-generation — being the first generation of a family to be born in a particular country.
  • flabbergastation — (colloquial) Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted.
  • flamborough head — a chalk promontory in NE England, on the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire
  • flower arranging — Flower arranging is the art or hobby of arranging cut flowers in a way which makes them look attractive.
  • focused strategy — a business strategy in which an organization divests itself of all but its core activities, using the funds raised to enhance the distinctive abilities that give it an advantage over its rivals
  • for a good cause — If you say that something is for a good cause, you mean that it is worth doing or giving to because it will help other people, for example by raising money for charity.
  • for good measure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
  • fore and aft rig — a sail set in a line from one end the other of a vessel rather than in a square
  • fore-and-aft rig — a rig in which the principal sails are fore-and-aft.
  • foreign exchange — commercial paper drawn on a person or corporation in a foreign nation.
  • foreign language — language not one's mother tongue
  • foreign national — citizen of another country
  • forward exchange — a foreign bill purchased at a stipulated price and payable at a future date.
  • forwarding agent — freight forwarder.
  • four-deal bridge — a version of bridge in which four hands only are played, the players then cutting for new partners
  • four-masted brig — jackass bark (def 2).
  • freeboard length — the length of a vessel, measured on the summer load line from the fore side of the stem to some part of the stern, usually the after side of the rudderpost.
  • friction gearing — wheels or disks transmitting power by means of frictional contact.
  • fringed polygala — a North American milkwort, Polygala paucifolia, having flowers with purplish-pink, winglike petals and a fringed tube.
  • gazetted officer — (in India) a senior official whose appointment is published in the government gazette
  • general factotum — a person who does all sorts of jobs; general assistant
  • geoffrey chaucerGeoffrey, 1340?–1400, English poet.
  • go off the rails — If someone goes off the rails, they start to behave in a way that other people think is unacceptable or very strange, for example they start taking drugs or breaking the law.
  • go-faster stripe — a decorative line, intended to be suggestive of high speed, on the bodywork of a car
  • gold certificate — a former U.S. paper currency issued by the federal government for circulation from 1865 to 1933, equal to and redeemable for gold to a stated value.
  • gold-of-pleasure — a yellow-flowered Eurasian plant, Camelina sativa, widespread as a weed, esp in flax fields, and formerly cultivated for its oil-rich seeds: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • grace-and-favour — (of a house, flat, etc) owned by the sovereign and granted free of rent to a person to whom the sovereign wishes to express gratitude
  • grant of probate — a certificate stating that a will is valid
  • gregory of nyssaSaint, a.d. c330–395? Christian bishop and theologian in Asia Minor (brother of Saint Basil).

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