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16-letter words containing a, l, i, n, c

  • franchise clause — a clause stipulating that the insured will be responsible for any loss not in excess of a stated amount, and the insurance company will be liable for full payment of the loss equaling or exceeding the amount up to the insured amount.
  • francis of paula — Saint, 1416–1507, Italian monk: founder of the order of Minims.
  • francis of sales — Saint, 1567–1622, French ecclesiastic and writer on theology: bishop of Geneva 1602–22.
  • french polynesia — a French overseas territory in the S Pacific, including the Society Islands, Marquesas Islands, and other scattered island groups. 1544 sq. mi. (4000 sq. km). Capital: Papeete.
  • functional group — a group of atoms responsible for the characteristic behavior of the class of compounds in which the group occurs, as the hydroxyl group in alcohols.
  • functional shift — a change in the grammatical function of a word, as in the use of the noun input as a verb or the noun fun as an adjective.
  • functional water — water containing additives that provide extra nutritional value
  • fundamentalistic — Fundamentalist.
  • funeral director — a person, usually a licensed embalmer, who supervises or conducts the preparation of the dead for burial and directs or arranges funerals.
  • galenic pharmacy — the art or practice of preparing and dispensing galenicals.
  • galvanic battery — battery (def 1a).
  • 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.
  • general american — any form of American English speech considered to show few regional peculiarities, usually including all dialects except for eastern New England, New York City, Southern, and South Midland (no longer in technical use). Abbreviation: GA.
  • general election — U.S. Politics. a regularly scheduled local, state, or national election in which voters elect officeholders. Compare primary (def 15). a state or national election, as opposed to a local election.
  • general electric — (company)   (GE) A US company that manufactured computers from 1956 until 1970, when it sold its computer division to Honeywell and left the computer business. Notable GE computers were the GE-265, which supported the Dartmouth Time-sharing System (DTSS), and the GE-645 used for Multics development. See also GCOS. Not to be confused with the General Electric Company (GEC) in the UK (where FOLDOC's first seeds were sown).
  • general medicine — non-surgical branch of medicine
  • general practice — family practice.
  • genetic material — material that stores genetic information; DNA
  • geochronological — Of or pertaining to geochronology.
  • germinal vesicle — the large, vesicular nucleus of an ovum before the polar bodies are formed.
  • global community — the people or nations of the world, considered as being closely connected by modern telecommunications and as being economically, socially, and politically interdependent
  • granulocytopenia — a diminished number of granulocytes in the blood, which occurs in certain forms of anaemia
  • graphic language — For specifying graphic operations.
  • great-grandchild — a grandchild of one's son or daughter.
  • grid declination — the angular difference between true north and grid north on a map
  • haemodynamically — from a hemodynamic point of view
  • hailing distance — the distance within which the human voice can be heard: They sailed within hailing distance of the island.
  • handling charges — a fee paid to cover the packaging, transport, etc, of a commodity
  • hanseatic league — a medieval league of towns of northern Germany and adjacent countries for the promotion and protection of commerce.
  • health education — education that aims to give people the information they need to live healthily
  • health inspector — a public employee who inspects places such as restaurants, shops, factories etc to make sure they are hygienic and do not pose any dangers to health
  • health insurance — insurance that compensates the insured for expenses or loss incurred for medical reasons, as through illness or hospitalization.
  • health-conscious — having an active interest in one's health
  • hematocrystallin — (biology, archaic) hemoglobin.
  • hemolytic anemia — an anemic condition characterized by the destruction of red blood cells: seen in some drug reactions and in certain infectious and hereditary disorders.
  • hierophantically — In a hierophantic manner; in the manner of a hierophant.
  • historical novel — a novel within the genre of historical fiction.
  • hospital corners — a fold on a bed sheet or blanket made by tucking the foot or head of the sheet straight under the mattress with the ends protruding and then making a diagonal fold at the side corner of the sheet and tucking this under to produce a triangular corner.
  • hydraulic cement — cement that can solidify under water.
  • hydraulic mining — placer mining using a pressurized stream of water.
  • hypermasculinity — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • iconoclastically — In an iconoclastic way.
  • icterine warbler — a European variety of tree warbler (Hippolais icterina )
  • image consultant — imagemaker.
  • immethodicalness — Lack of method; the quality of being immethodical.
  • immunochemically — In an immunochemical way.
  • in a cleft stick — If you say that a person or organization is in a cleft stick, you mean that they are in a difficult situation which will bring them problems and harm whatever they decide to do.
  • in loco parentis — in the place or role of a parent.
  • in plain clothes — not wearing a uniform
  • in quadruplicate — in four identical copies
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