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16-letter words containing c, o, m, f

  • farmhouse cheese — cheese that is made by traditional methods, on or as if on a farm
  • ferdinand marcos — Ferdinand E(dralin) [ed-ruh-lin] /ˈɛd rə lɪn/ (Show IPA), 1917–1989, Philippine political leader: president 1965–86.
  • fibonacci number — a number in the Fibonacci sequence, each of which is the sum of the previous two
  • file composition — A typesetting language.
  • file compression — (algorithm)   The compression of data in a file, usually to reduce storage requirements.
  • flame cultivator — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
  • fluorescent lamp — a tubular electric discharge lamp in which light is produced by the fluorescence of phosphors coating the inside of the tube.
  • foreign commerce — an interchange of goods or commodities, especially on a large scale between different countries (foreign commerce) or between different parts of the same country (domestic commerce) trade; business.
  • formation packer — A formation packer is a substance that is used as a seal between the casing and the borehole so that part of the hole can be tested.
  • four-course meal — A four-course meal is a meal that consists of four parts served one after the other.
  • french cameroons — Cameroun (def 2).
  • french community — a cultural and economic association of France, its overseas departments and territories, and former French territories that chose to maintain association after becoming independent republics: formed 1958.
  • fuel consumption — use of a material to generate power
  • general factotum — a person who does all sorts of jobs; general assistant
  • high-performance — A high-performance car or other product goes very fast or does a lot.
  • house of commons — the elective, lower house of the Parliament of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada, and various other countries in the Commonwealth of Nations.
  • huffman encoding — Huffman coding
  • hyper-conformity — action in accord with prevailing social standards, attitudes, practices, etc.
  • immunodeficiency — impairment of the immune response, predisposing to infection and certain malignancies.
  • imperfect flower — a unisexual flower with only stamens or only pistils
  • information pack — a set of leaflets giving information about something
  • informed consent — a patient's consent to a medical or surgical procedure or to participation in a clinical study after being properly advised of the relevant medical facts and the risks involved.
  • joachim of fiore — ?1132–1202 ad, Italian mystic and philosopher, best known for teaching that history can be divided into three ages, those of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
  • job's comforters — a person who unwittingly or maliciously depresses or discourages someone while attempting to be consoling.
  • john of damascus — Saint, a.d. c675–749, priest, theologian, and scholar of the Eastern Church, born in Damascus.
  • make a pitch for — to give verbal support to
  • man of the cloth — a clergyman or other ecclesiastic.
  • marsh cinquefoil — a variety of cinquefoil, Potentilla palustris, that grows in marshy areas
  • 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.
  • mexican standoff — a stalemate or impasse; a confrontation that neither side can win.
  • micro-microfarad — picofarad. Symbol: μμF.
  • microfilm reader — a machine that displays on a screen a magnified image of a microfilm
  • 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.
  • microsoft office — (product)   Microsoft's bundles of productivity tools including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Front Page, Microsoft Team Manager, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Schedule+, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Small Business Financial Manager, Automap Streets Plus. Editions of Office include Microsoft Office Professional Edition, Microsoft Office Standard Edition, Microsoft Office Small Business Edition, Microsoft Office Developer Edition. Different editions contain different subsets of the above applications. Current version, as of 2004-08-30: Office 2003.
  • miraculous fruit — miracle fruit.
  • misconfiguration — An incorrect or inappropriate configuration.
  • misspecification — An incorrect specification.
  • modacrylic fiber — any of various synthetic copolymer textile fibers, as Dynel, containing less than 85 percent but more than 35 percent of acrylonitrile.
  • money of account — a monetary denomination used in reckoning, especially one not issued as a coin, as the U.S. mill.
  • monkey-faced owl — barn owl.
  • montgomery clift — Montgomery, 1920–66, U.S. actor.
  • 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.
  • motoring offence — a crime committed which concerns driving
  • multiple factors — polygene.
  • nick someone for — to defraud someone to the extent of
  • non-confirmation — the act of confirming.
  • non-confirmatory — serving to confirm; corroborative.
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