19-letter words containing c, o, n, f, r, t
- family practitioner — medical specialization in general practice, requiring training beyond that of general practice and leading to board certification.
- fashion coordinator — a person in a department store or other establishment who coordinates activities centered upon or related to fashion, as fashion themes, shows, displays, and promotion.
- fellow countrywoman — a fellow countrywoman is a female citizen of the same state as the person speaking, writing, or being referred to
- fighter-interceptor — a fighter plane used for the defense of a region against air attack, especially by attacking bombers.
- first-sale doctrine — a legal principle allowing the purchaser of a lawfully made copy of a copyright-protected work to sell or give away that copy without permission but not to reproduce it.
- fixed cost contract — a contract in which the costs do not vary
- fixed-term contract — a contract for a particular and fixed period
- flannelmouth sucker — a sucker, Catostomus latipinnis, of the Colorado River and its tributaries.
- focal plane shutter — an opaque shield in a camera, lying in the focal plane of the lens, that, when tripped, admits light to expose the film or plate for a predetermined period, usually a fraction of a second
- focal-plane shutter — a camera shutter situated directly in front of the film.
- for crying out loud — exasperation
- forensic accountant — an accountant who specializes in applying accountancy skills to the purposes of the law
- forensic psychiatry — the use of psychiatric knowledge and techniques in questions of law, as in determining legal insanity.
- fortification agate — an agate, used as a gem, having polygonal banding such that it suggests the plan of a bastion.
- fractal compression — (algorithm) A technique for encoding images using fractals.
- fractional currency — coins or paper money of a smaller denomination than the basic monetary unit.
- free-market economy — an economy based on the free market system
- freezer compartment — in a refrigerator, an enclosed area kept at a temperature low enough to store frozen foods or freeze non-frozen foods
- freezing injunction — an order enabling the court to freeze the assets of a defendant, esp to prevent him or her taking them abroad
- french north africa — the former French possessions of Algeria, French Morocco, and Tunisia
- friend of the court — amicus curiae.
- front-end financing — money or costs required or incurred in advance of a project in order to get it under way
- front-end processor — a small computer or other dedicated device that performs preliminary processing of data for a host computer.
- frontier technology — innovative or new technology
- functional currency — Functional currency is the main currency used by a business.
- general post office — (in the U.S. postal system) the main post office of a city, county, etc., that also has branch post offices. Abbreviation: G.P.O., GPO.
- get one's rocks off — to experience orgasm; ejaculate
- give one credit for — to commend one for
- grandfather's clock — a pendulum floor clock having a case as tall as or taller than a person; tall-case clock; long-case clock.
- great wall of china — a system of fortified walls with a roadway along the top, constructed as a defense for China against the nomads of the regions that are now Mongolia and Manchuria: completed in the 3rd century b.c., but later repeatedly modified and rebuilt. 2000 miles (3220 km) long.
- gulf of carpentaria — a shallow inlet of the Arafura Sea, in N Australia between Arnhem Land and Cape York Peninsula
- house of correction — a place for the confinement and reform of persons convicted of minor offenses and not regarded as confirmed criminals.
- hyperbolic function — a function of an angle expressed as a relationship between the distances from a point on a hyperbola to the origin and to the coordinate axes, as hyperbolic sine or hyperbolic cosine: often expressed as combinations of exponential functions.
- hyperfocal distance — the distance, at a given f number, between a camera lens and the nearest point (hyperfocal point) having satisfactory definition when focused at infinity.
- identification card — a card giving identifying data about a person, as full name, address, age, and color of hair and eyes, and often containing a photograph: for use as identification at a place of employment, school, club, etc.
- identification mark — barcode or serial number
- immigration officer — official administrating incoming foreigners
- in commemoration of — in remembrance of
- in consideration of — the act of considering; careful thought; meditation; deliberation: I will give your project full consideration.
- incomplete fracture — a fracture extending partly across the bone.
- index of refraction — a number indicating the speed of light in a given medium as either the ratio of the speed of light in a vacuum to that in the given medium (absolute index of refraction) or the ratio of the speed of light in a specified medium to that in the given medium (relative index of refraction) Symbol: n.
- inferiority complex — Psychiatry. intense feeling of inferiority, producing a personality characterized either by extreme reticence or, as a result of overcompensation, by extreme aggressiveness.
- information content — the amount of information in something
- information officer — someone whose job is to give information to people
- information science — the study of the nature, collection, and management of information and of its uses, especially involving computer storage and retrievals.
- information service — a service which provides information
- interactive fiction — an adventure or mystery story, usually presented as a video game or book, in which the player or reader is given choices as to how the storyline is to develop or the mystery is to be solved.
- interesterification — transesterification.
- interfacial tension — the surface tension at the interface of two liquids.
- interferometrically — By means of interferometry.