16-letter words containing d, e, f, i, a, n
- ferricyanic acid — a brown, crystalline, unstable, water-soluble solid, H 3 Fe(CN) 6 , obtained by the interaction of a ferricyanide and an acid.
- ferrocyanic acid — a white, crystalline, unstable, water-soluble solid, H 4 Fe(CN) 6 , obtained by the interaction of a ferrocyanide and an acid.
- fielding average — a measure of the fielding ability of a player, obtained by dividing the number of put-outs and assists by the number of put-outs, assists, and errors and carrying out the result to three decimal places. A player with ten errors in 600 chances has a fielding average of .984.
- finance director — financial manager
- fisherman's bend — a knot made by taking a round turn on the object to which the rope is to be fastened, passing the end of the rope around the standing part and under the round turn, and securing the end.
- fishskin disease — ichthyosis
- flight attendant — an airline employee who serves meals, attends to passengers' comfort, etc., during a flight.
- floridean starch — the storage polysaccharide of red algae.
- food intolerance — an intolerance of a specific type of food, causing an adverse reaction
- for the duration — If you say that something will happen for the duration, you mean that it will happen for as long as a particular situation continues.
- forbid the banns — to raise an objection to a marriage announced in this way
- forced vibration — Forced vibration is a type of vibration in which a force is repeatedly applied to a mechanical system.
- fore and aft rig — a sail set in a line from one end the other of a vessel rather than in a square
- fore-and-aft rig — a rig in which the principal sails are fore-and-aft.
- forwarding agent — freight forwarder.
- foundation stone — any of the stones composing the foundation of a building.
- four-dimensional — of a space having points, or a set having elements, which require four coordinates for their unique determination.
- francis townsend — Francis Everett, 1867–1960, U.S. physician and proposer of the Townsend plan.
- french indochina — an area in SE Asia, formerly a French colonial federation including Cochin-China, the protectorates of Annam, Cambodia, Tonkin, and Laos, and the leased territory of Kwangchowan: now comprising the three independent states of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Capital: Hanoi.
- friendly islands — Tonga
- fringed polygala — a North American milkwort, Polygala paucifolia, having flowers with purplish-pink, winglike petals and a fringed tube.
- ft share indexes — any of a number of share indexes published by the Financial Times to reflect various aspects of stock exchange prices
- fundamental unit — one of a set of unrelated units that form the basis of a system of units. For example, the metre, kilogram, and second are fundamental units of the SI system
- 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.
- gentleman friend — a man with whom a woman is romantically involved; suitor.
- headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
- huffman encoding — Huffman coding
- hydroferricyanic — (chemistry) Pertaining to, or containing, or obtained from, hydrogen, ferric iron, and cyanogen.
- in the shadow of — very close to; verging upon
- indefatigability — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
- infant education — (in England and Wales) education provided for children at infant schools
- infinite decimal — nonterminating decimal.
- information desk — helpdesk, information point
- isle of portland — a rugged limestone peninsula in SW England, in Dorset, connected to the mainland by a narrow isthmus and by Chesil Bank: the lighthouse of Portland Bill lies at the S tip; famous for the quarrying of Portland stone, a fine building material. Pop (town): 12 000 (latest est)
- kingdom of arles — a kingdom in SE France which had dissolved by 1378: known as the Kingdom of Burgundy until about 1200
- kingfisher daisy — a bushy southern African plant, Felicia bergerana, having grasslike leaves and solitary, bright-blue flowers.
- kondratieff wave — a long business cycle of economic expansion and contraction, postulated to last about 60 years.
- line of latitude — an imaginary line on a globe, map, etc, indicating latitude
- manifest destiny — the belief or doctrine, held chiefly in the middle and latter part of the 19th century, that it was the destiny of the U.S. to expand its territory over the whole of North America and to extend and enhance its political, social, and economic influences.
- matthew flinders — Matthew, 1774–1814, English navigator and explorer: surveyed coast of Australia.
- mental defective — a person who suffers from a learning disability or from some form of mental illness
- mexican standoff — a stalemate or impasse; a confrontation that neither side can win.
- no fixed address — Someone who is of no fixed address does not have a permanent place to live.
- no hard feelings — If you say ' no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
- no-fault divorce — a divorce granted without anyone being found guilty of marital misconduct
- non-confidential — spoken, written, acted on, etc., in strict privacy or secrecy; secret: a confidential remark.
- north plainfield — a city in NE New Jersey.
- on the safe side — as a precaution
- ostend manifesto — a declaration (1854) issued from Ostend, Belgium, by the U.S. ministers to England, France, and Spain, stating that the U.S. would be justified in seizing Cuba if Spain did not sell it to the U.S.