16-letter words containing a, r, t, f, o

man-of-the-earth — a morning glory, Ipomoea pandurata, of eastern North America, having white flowers and a very large, tuberous root.
margin of safety — therapeutic index.
matron of honour — a married woman serving as chief attendant to a bride
matter of course — an event or result that is natural or inevitable
matter of record — a fact or statement that appears on the record of a court and that can be proved or established by producing such record.
matter-of-course — occurring or proceeding in or as if in the logical, natural, or customary course of things; expected or inevitable.
matter-of-factly — adhering strictly to fact; not imaginative; prosaic; dry; commonplace: a matter-of-fact account of the political rally.
matthew of paris — c1200–59, English chronicler.
metallofullerene — (chemistry) A fullerene containing an enclosed metal atom.
microsoft access — 1. (database) A relational database running under Microsoft Windows. Data is stored as a number of "tables", e.g. "Stock". Each table consists of a number of "records" (e.g. for different items) and each record contains a number of "fields", e.g. "Product code", "Supplier", "Quantity in stock". Access allows the user to create "forms" and "reports". A form shows one record in a user-designed format and allows the user to step through records one at a time. A report shows selected records in a user-designed format, possibly grouped into sections with different kinds of total (including sum, minimum, maximum, average). There are also facilities to use links ("joins") between tables which share a common field and to filter records according to certain criteria or search for particular field values. Version: 2 (date?). 2. (communications) A communications program from Microsoft, meant to compete with ProComm and other programs. It sucked and was dropped. Years later they reused the name for their database.
minerva software — A company producing software for the Acorn Archimedes.
miraculous fruit — miracle fruit.
misconfiguration — An incorrect or inappropriate configuration.
mossbauer effect — the phenomenon in which an atom in a crystal undergoes no recoil when emitting a gamma ray, giving all the emitted energy to the gamma ray, resulting in a sharply defined wavelength.
multifariousness — (uncountable) The characteristic of being multifarious.
multilinear form — a function or functional of several variables such that when all variables but one are held fixed, the function is linear in the remaining variable.
multiple factors — polygene.
narcotraffickers — Plural form of narcotrafficker.
narcotrafficking — the buying and selling of illegal drugs.
new frontiersman — an advocate or follower of the New Frontier, especially one in public service.
no-fault divorce — a divorce granted without anyone being found guilty of marital misconduct
non-confirmation — the act of confirming.
non-confirmatory — serving to confirm; corroborative.
non-inflammatory — tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion, etc.: inflammatory speeches.
non-manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
non-transferable — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
nonmanufacturing — (economics) Outside of the manufacturing sector.
nonproliferation — the action or practice of curbing or controlling an excessive, rapid spread: nonproliferation of nuclear weapons.
north battleford — a city in W central Saskatchewan, in central Canada.
north plainfield — a city in NE New Jersey.
oak leaf cluster — a U.S. military decoration in the form of a small bronze twig bearing four oak leaves and three acorns, worn on the ribbon of another decoration for valor, wounds, or distinguished service to signify a second award of the same medal.
of a certain age — of an unspecified age, but no longer young
of it own accord — If something happens of its own accord, it seems to happen by itself, without anyone making it happen.
of the nature of — having the essential character of; like
on a war footing — If a country or armed force is on a war footing, it is ready to fight a war.
one for the road — a long, narrow stretch with a smoothed or paved surface, made for traveling by motor vehicle, carriage, etc., between two or more points; street or highway.
operating profit — the profit of a company, etc, after it deducts its operating costs or the costs necessary to conduct the business
order of the day — the agenda for an assembly, meeting, group, or organization.
ordnance factory — a factory that makes military weapons and ammunition
orthoformic acid — a hypothetical acid, HC(OH) 3 , known only in the form of its esters.
out of character — the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing.
outboard profile — an exterior side elevation of a vessel, showing all deck structures, rigging, fittings, etc.
outsmart oneself — to have one's efforts at cunning or cleverness result in one's own disadvantage
over-familiarity — thorough knowledge or mastery of a thing, subject, etc.
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.
packing fraction — Physics. a measure of the stability of an atomic nucleus, equal to 10 4 multiplied by the mass defect and divided by the mass number.
parallel fortran — (language) (Pfortran) Extensions to Fortran by Ridgway Scott <[email protected]> of Houston University. Pfortran provides a shared memory SIMD model on message passing computers. It was under development in 1994.
parrot's-feather — a South American water milfoil, Myriophyllum aquaticum, having hairlike pinnate leaves, widely cultivated as an aquarium plant.
partial fraction — one of the fractions into which a given fraction can be resolved, the sum of such simpler fractions being equal to the given fraction: Partial fractions of 5/(x2−x) are 5/(x−1) and −5/x.
partial function — A function which is not defined for all arguments of its input type. E.g. f(x) = 1/x if x /= 0. The opposite of a total function. In denotational semantics, a partial function f : D -> C may be represented as a total function ft : D' -> lift(C) where D' is a superset of D and ft x = f x if x in D ft x = bottom otherwise where lift(C) = C U bottom. Bottom (LaTeX \perp) denotes "undefined".

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