16-letter words containing d, t, f
- frederic mistral — Frédéric [frey-dey-reek] /freɪ deɪˈrik/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, French Provençal poet: Nobel prize 1904.
- freeboard length — the length of a vessel, measured on the summer load line from the fore side of the stem to some part of the stern, usually the after side of the rudderpost.
- french directory — the body of five directors in power in France from 1795 until their overthrow by Napoleon in 1799
- friction welding — a method of welding thermoplastics or metals by the heat generated by rubbing the members to be joined against each other under pressure.
- friendly society — law: mutual group providing benefits
- from the word go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- front and center — If a topic or question is front and center, a lot of attention is being paid to it or a lot of people are talking about it.
- front-end loader — a loader having a shovel or bucket at the end of an articulated arm located at the front of the vehicle.
- frontier dispute — a conflict concerning a frontier between countries and which usually involves those countries
- ft share indexes — any of a number of share indexes published by the Financial Times to reflect various aspects of stock exchange prices
- full steam ahead — If something such as a plan or a project goes full steam ahead, it progresses quickly.
- fund supermarket — an online facility offering discounted investment opportunities and advice
- fundamental bass — a bass consisting of the roots of the chords employed.
- fundamental star — one of a number of stars with positions that have been determined accurately and that are used as reference stars for the determination of positions of other celestial objects.
- 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.
- garfield heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- gazetted officer — (in India) a senior official whose appointment is published in the government gazette
- gentleman friend — a man with whom a woman is romantically involved; suitor.
- gold certificate — a former U.S. paper currency issued by the federal government for circulation from 1865 to 1933, equal to and redeemable for gold to a stated value.
- good-for-nothing — worthless; of no use.
- group identifier — (operating system) (gid) A unique number, between 0 an 32767, identifying a set of users under Unix. Gids are found in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group databases (or their NIS equivalents) and one is also associated with each file, indicating the group to which its group permissions apply.
- gulf of thailand — an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina
- half-blind joint — a corner dovetail joint visible on one face only.
- hay-scented fern — a fern, Dennstaedtia punctilobula, of eastern North America, having brittle, yellow-green fronds.
- head post office — the main post office in a town
- headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
- health food shop — a shop which sells health foods
- hen of the woods — a large, grayish-brown, edible fungus, Polyporus frondosus, forming a mass of overlapping caps at the base of trees and somewhat resembling a hen.
- hopfield network — (artificial intelligence) (Or "Hopfield model") A kind of neural network investigated by John Hopfield in the early 1980s. The Hopfield network has no special input or output neurons (see McCulloch-Pitts), but all are both input and output, and all are connected to all others in both directions (with equal weights in the two directions). Input is applied simultaneously to all neurons which then output to each other and the process continues until a stable state is reached, which represents the network output.
- hydroformylation — the addition of a hydrogen atom and the formyl group to a double bond of a hydrocarbon by reaction with a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst.
- immediate family — parents, siblings, children
- in the middle of — at the centre of
- 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.
- infinite product — a sequence of numbers in which an infinite number of terms are multiplied together.
- information desk — helpdesk, information point
- 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.
- 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)
- kondratieff wave — a long business cycle of economic expansion and contraction, postulated to last about 60 years.
- lady of the lake — a narrative poem (1810) by Sir Walter Scott.
- left-hand dagger — a dagger of the 16th and 17th centuries, held in the left hand in dueling and used to parry the sword of an opponent.
- letter of advice — a notification from a consignor to a consignee giving specific information as to a shipment, the name of the carrier, the date shipped, etc.
- letter of credit — an order issued by a banker allowing a person named to draw money to a specified amount from correspondents of the issuer.
- life after death — If you talk about life after death, you are discussing the possibility that people may continue to exist in some form after they die.
- line of latitude — an imaginary line on a globe, map, etc, indicating latitude
- lithium fluoride — a fine, white, slightly water-soluble powder, LiF, used chiefly in the manufacture of ceramics.