16-letter words containing a, g, e, o, f
- 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.
- gas blowoff line — A gas blowoff line is a safety device to control sudden increases in pressure.
- gas liquefaction — Gas liquefaction is the process of refrigerating a gas to a temperature that is below its critical temperature in order to form a liquid.
- 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 chaucer — Geoffrey, 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)
- golden handcuffs — payments deferred over a number of years that induce a person to stay with a particular company or in a particular job
- goosefoot family — formerly, the plant family Chenopodiaceae, characterized by often weedy herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually alternate leaves, small and inconspicuous flowers, and tiny, dry fruit, and including the beet, glasswort, goosefoot, Russian thistle, saltbush, and spinach; now part of the amaranth family, Amaranthaceae.
- 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 nyssa — Saint, a.d. c330–395? Christian bishop and theologian in Asia Minor (brother of Saint Basil).
- high-performance — A high-performance car or other product goes very fast or does a lot.
- horsehair fungus — an edible white, striated, umbrella-capped mushroom, Marasmius rotula, commonly found in eastern North America.
- hourglass figure — the shape of a woman who is well-proportioned and has a small waist
- huffman encoding — Huffman coding
- kingdom of arles — a kingdom in SE France which had dissolved by 1378: known as the Kingdom of Burgundy until about 1200
- lignin sulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
- lissajous figure — the series of plane curves traced by an object executing two mutually perpendicular harmonic motions.
- make a go of sth — If you say that someone is making a go of something such as a business or relationship, you mean that they are having some success with it.
- manhood suffrage — the right of adult male citizens to vote
- margin of safety — therapeutic index.
- milk of magnesia — a milky white suspension in water of magnesium hydroxide, Mg (OH) 2 , used as an antacid or laxative.
- mohammed of ghor — (Mu'izz-ad-din) died 1206, Muslim Sultan of Ghazni 1173–1206: established Muslim power in India.
- name of the game — the essential element, consideration, or ultimate purpose; key: Profit is the name of the game in business.
- no hard feelings — If you say ' no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
- of a certain age — of an unspecified age, but no longer young
- of human bondage — a novel (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham.
- operating profit — the profit of a company, etc, after it deducts its operating costs or the costs necessary to conduct the business
- 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.
- peregrine falcon — a globally distributed falcon, Falco peregrinus, much used in falconry because of its swift flight: several subspecies are endangered.
- phosphor fatigue — screen saver
- proof of postage — a document, such as a receipt, etc, that proves that you have posted or mailed something
- pull a long face — to look sad, glum, disapproving, etc.
- rate of exchange — exchange rate.
- 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.
- registration fee — a fee paid to register, enrol or sign up for (a course, etc)
- releasing factor — a substance usually of hypothalamic origin that triggers the release of a particular hormone from an endocrine gland.
- 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.
- seat of learning — People sometimes refer to a university or a similar institution as a seat of learning.
- self-degradation — the act of degrading.
- self-denigration — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
- self-designation — a name taken for oneself or one's own people
- self-indignation — strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base; righteous anger.
- self-integration — an act or instance of combining into an integral whole.