17-letter words containing a, m, e, r

export department — the department of a business concerned with the export of the business's goods or services
external examiner — External experts, for example external examiners, come into an organization from outside in order to do a particular job fairly and impartially, or to check that a particular job was done properly.
fair market price — the price of something at which both a seller and a buyer are willing to strike a deal.
fair market value — The fair market value of an asset is what a willing buyer would pay a willing seller for it on the open market.
far be it from me — I would not presume; on no account
farmers' alliance — an informal name for various regional political organizations that farmers established in the 1880s and that led to the formation of the Peoples' party in 1891–92.
fellow countryman — sb of same nationality
fermentation lock — a valve placed on the top of bottles of fermenting wine to allow bubbles to escape
ferrimagnetically — In a ferrimagnetic manner.
ferroelectric ram — Ferroelectric Random Access Memory
financial manager — a person responsible for the supervision and handling of the financial affairs of an organization
first commandment — “Thou shalt have no other gods before me”: first of the Ten Commandments.
first performance — the first time that a play or concert is performed
first triumvirate — the political alliance of Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey, formed in 60 bc
fitness programme — a plan to help someone improve their health and physical condition
footmen's gallery — the rearmost section of seats in the balcony of an English theater, especially in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
for the most part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
formative element — a morpheme that serves as an affix, not as a base, or root, in word formation.
fourier transform — a mapping of a function, as a signal, that is defined in one domain, as space or time, into another domain, as wavelength or frequency, where the function is represented in terms of sines and cosines.
fractal dimension — (mathematics) A common type of fractal dimension is the Hausdorff-Besicovich Dimension, but there are several different ways of computing fractal dimension. Fractal dimension can be calculated by taking the limit of the quotient of the log change in object size and the log change in measurement scale, as the measurement scale approaches zero. The differences come in what is exactly meant by "object size" and what is meant by "measurement scale" and how to get an average number out of many different parts of a geometrical object. Fractal dimensions quantify the static *geometry* of an object. For example, consider a straight line. Now blow up the line by a factor of two. The line is now twice as long as before. Log 2 / Log 2 = 1, corresponding to dimension 1. Consider a square. Now blow up the square by a factor of two. The square is now 4 times as large as before (i.e. 4 original squares can be placed on the original square). Log 4 / log 2 = 2, corresponding to dimension 2 for the square. Consider a snowflake curve formed by repeatedly replacing ___ with _/\_, where each of the 4 new lines is 1/3 the length of the old line. Blowing up the snowflake curve by a factor of 3 results in a snowflake curve 4 times as large (one of the old snowflake curves can be placed on each of the 4 segments _/\_). Log 4 / log 3 = 1.261... Since the dimension 1.261 is larger than the dimension 1 of the lines making up the curve, the snowflake curve is a fractal. [sci.fractals FAQ].
frames per second — (unit) (fps) The unit of measurement of the frame rate of a moving image.
frederick william — 1795–1861, king of Prussia 1840–61 (brother of William I of Prussia).
free-body diagram — A free-body diagram is a diagram of a structure in which all supports are replaced by forces.
freedmen's bureau — an agency of the War Department set up in 1865 to assist freed slaves in obtaining relief, land, jobs, fair treatment, and education.
french somaliland — a former name of Djibouti (def 1).
from head to foot — all over one's body
front-end payment — a payment required or incurred in advance of a project in order to get it under way
functional isomer — any of several structural isomers that have the same molecular formula but with the atoms connected in different ways and therefore falling into different functional groups.
gamblers' fallacy — the fallacy that in a series of chance events the probability of one event occurring increases with the number of times another event has occurred in succession
gamma-ray burster — a source of gamma-ray bursts
garden apartments — a complex of low apartment buildings surrounded by lawn or landscaped areas
garden mignonette — a Mediterranean plant, Resida odorata, which has spikes of small greenish-white flowers with prominent anthers
garlic mayonnaise — mayonnaise flavoured with garlic
gastroenterostomy — the making of a new passage between the stomach and the duodenum (gastroduodenostomy) or, especially, the jejunum (gastrojejunostomy)
gastrojejunostomy — See under gastroenterostomy.
general admission — an admission charge for unreserved seats at a theatrical performance, sports event, etc.
general sarmiento — a city in E Argentina, a suburb of Buenos Aires.
general semantics — a philosophical approach to language, developed by Alfred Korzybski, exploring the relationship between the form of language and its use and attempting to improve the capacity to express ideas.
genetic algorithm — (GA) An evolutionary algorithm which generates each individual from some encoded form known as a "chromosome" or "genome". Chromosomes are combined or mutated to breed new individuals. "Crossover", the kind of recombination of chromosomes found in sexual reproduction in nature, is often also used in GAs. Here, an offspring's chromosome is created by joining segments choosen alternately from each of two parents' chromosomes which are of fixed length. GAs are useful for multidimensional optimisation problems in which the chromosome can encode the values for the different variables being optimised.
gentleman-at-arms — (in England) one of a guard of 40 gentlemen who attend the sovereign on state occasions.
geographical mile — nautical mile.
geomagnetic storm — magnetic storm.
geothermal energy — Geothermal energy is energy from temperature differences inside the earth's crust.
germanicus caesar — 15 b.c.–a.d. 19, Roman general.
glove compartment — a compartment in the dashboard of an automobile for storing small items.
go on the rampage — If people go on the rampage, they rush about in a wild or violent way, causing damage or destruction.
go the extra mile — make an exceptional effort
gomez de la serna — Ramón [rah-mawn] /rɑˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), ("Ramón") 1888–1963, Spanish novelist, dramatist, biographer, and critic.
good-time charlie — an affable, sociable, pleasure-loving man.
government action — intervention by a government, esp to influence financial markets

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