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18-letter words containing a, f

  • interface analysis — (testing)   A software test which checks the interfaces between program elements for consistency and adherence to predefined rules or axioms.
  • invalidity benefit — (formerly, in the British National Insurance scheme) a weekly payment to a person who had been off work through illness for more than six months: replaced by incapacity benefit in 1995
  • isabella of france — 1292–1358, wife (1308–27) of Edward II of England, whom, aided by her lover, Roger de Mortimer, she deposed; mother of Edward III
  • jack of all trades — a person who is adept at many different kinds of work.
  • jack-of-all-trades — a person who is adept at many different kinds of work.
  • job classification — an arrangement of different types of employment within a company or industry, according to the skill, experience, or training required.
  • joint life annuity — an annuity, the payments of which cease at the death of the first of two or more specified persons.
  • just (plain) folks — simple and unassuming; not snobbish
  • kansas gay-feather — prairie button snakeroot.
  • king of the castle — most powerful figure
  • king-of-the-salmon — a ribbonfish, Trachypterus altivelis, of northern parts of the Pacific Ocean.
  • knight of the bath — a member of a knightly order founded by George I of England in 1725.
  • knight of the road — a tramp
  • knights of pythias — a fraternal order founded in Washington, D.C., in 1864.
  • lambeth conference — a convention of the bishops of the Anglican communion, held about every 10 years at Lambeth Palace to confer but not to define doctrine or to legislate on ecclesiastical matters.
  • last in, first out — The expression last in, first out is used to say that the last person who started work in an organization should be the first person to leave it, if fewer people are needed.
  • last-in, first-out — an inventory plan based on the assumption that materials constituting manufacturing costs should be carried on the books at the market price of the last lot received. Abbreviation: LIFO. Compare first-in, first-out.
  • laugh out of court — to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.
  • law of gravitation — a law stating that any two masses attract each other with a force equal to a constant (constant of gravitation) multiplied by the product of the two masses and divided by the square of the distance between them.
  • law of mass action — the statement that the rate of a chemical reaction is proportional to the concentrations of the reacting substances.
  • law of segregation — the principle, originated by Gregor Mendel, stating that during the production of gametes the two copies of each hereditary factor segregate so that offspring acquire one factor from each parent.
  • lawrence of arabia — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
  • lay at the door of — to blame (a person) for
  • laying on of hands — Theology. a rite in which the cleric's hands are placed on the head of a person being confirmed, ordained, or the like.
  • lean manufacturing — efficiency in the production of goods
  • learned profession — any of the three vocations of theology, law, and medicine, commonly held to require highly advanced learning. Compare profession (def 1).
  • lifecycle analysis — Lifecycle analysis is the consideration of all the energy and materials that are needed to make a product and to dispose of it.
  • lifesaving service — a private organization or government agency for general marine rescue operations.
  • like a house afire — a building in which people live; residence for human beings.
  • lily of the valley — a plant, Convallaria majalis, having an elongated cluster of small, drooping, bell-shaped, fragrant white flowers.
  • locally finite set — a collection of sets in a topological space in which each point of the space has a neighborhood that intersects a finite number of sets of the collection.
  • logical shift left — logical shift
  • lone-parent family — a family in which there is only one parent
  • looking-glass self — the self-image an individual forms by imagining what others think of his or her behavior and appearance.
  • loosestrife family — the plant family Lythraceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having usually opposite or whorled, simple leaves, clusters of flowers, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the crape myrtle, loosestrifes of the genus Lythrum, and the henna shrub.
  • magnetic amplifier — an amplifier that applies the input signal to a primary winding and feeds an alternating current to a secondary winding where this current is modulated by the variations in the primary winding.
  • make a beeline for — head directly towards
  • make a meal of sth — If you think someone is taking more time and energy to do something than is necessary, you can say that they are making a meal of it.
  • make a night of it — to cause an activity to last a night
  • make a practice of — be in the habit of
  • make allowance for — the act of allowing.
  • make no difference — to have no effect; not matter
  • make short work of — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
  • malicious mischief — willful destruction of personal property motivated by ill will or resentment toward its owner or possessor.
  • man-to-man defense — a method of defense in team sports, especially in basketball and football, in which each member of the defensive team is designated to guard a particular member of the offensive team.
  • manufactured goods — products made by machine
  • manufacturing base — the manufacturing industries of an area or a country considered as a unit and a constituent part of the economy
  • margaret of valois — ("Queen Margot") 1533–1615, 1st wife of Henry IV of France: queen of Navarre; patron of science and literature (daughter of Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici).
  • marriage of figaro — Italian Le nozze di Figaro. an opera (1786) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
  • marsilius of padua — c1280–1343? Italian scholar and political theorist.
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