16-letter words containing e, f, c, t, i
- intensifications — Plural form of intensification.
- interfacial area — The interfacial area is the total area of contact between two liquids in a liquid-liquid operation.
- interference fit — a match between the size and shape of two parts, such that force is required for assembly as one part is slightly larger than the other
- inverse function — the function that replaces another function when the dependent and independent variables of the first function are interchanged for an appropriate set of values of the dependent variable. In y = sin x and x = arc sin y, the inverse function of sine is arc sine.
- leaf-cutting ant — any of several tropical American ants of the genus Atta that cut and chew bits of leaves and flowers into a mash that they use to cultivate a fungus garden.
- leaf-cutting bee — any of the bees of the family Megachilidae that cut circular pieces from leaves or flowers to line their nests.
- 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.
- lighting effects — the illumination of a play, film, etc
- maintenance-free — requiring little or no maintenance: a maintenance-free swimming pool.
- make a pitch for — to give verbal support to
- mental defective — a person who suffers from a learning disability or from some form of mental illness
- mexican fruitfly — a brightly colored fly, Anastrepha ludens, whose larvae are a serious pest chiefly of citrus fruits and mangoes in Mexico, Central America, and southern Texas.
- mexican standoff — a stalemate or impasse; a confrontation that neither side can win.
- 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.
- misspecification — An incorrect specification.
- montgomery clift — Montgomery, 1920–66, U.S. actor.
- motoring offence — a crime committed which concerns driving
- multiple factors — polygene.
- narcotraffickers — Plural form of narcotrafficker.
- neo-confucianist — of or relating to neo-Confucians or neo-Confucianism.
- 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.
- nonfiction novel — a narrative dealing with real events and people, written in the form of a novel.
- nonfinite clause — a clause with a nonfinite verb or with no verb, as the hour being late in The hour being late, we left.
- of a certain age — of an unspecified age, but no longer young
- one-way function — (cryptography, mathematics) A function which is easy to compute but whose inverse is very difficult to compute. Such functions have important applications in cryptography, specifically in public-key cryptography. See also: trapdoor function.
- ovshinsky effect — an effect that turns special types of glassy, thin films into semiconductors upon application of low voltage.
- 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.
- pathetic fallacy — the endowment of nature, inanimate objects, etc., with human traits and feelings, as in the smiling skies; the angry sea.
- perfecting press — a rotary press for printing both sides of a sheet or web in one operation.
- physical fitness — good physical condition
- placement office — an office in a university that offers students careers advice and help to find employment
- practical effect — Usually, practical effects. a special effect that is created live on the set of a film, using real-world objects.
- prespecification — the act of specifying.
- prince's feather — a tall, showy plant, Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys, of the amaranth family, having reddish foliage and thick spikes of small, red flowers.
- prince's-feather — a tall, showy plant, Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys, of the amaranth family, having reddish foliage and thick spikes of small, red flowers.
- principal rafter — a diagonal member of a roof principal, usually forming part of a truss and supporting the purlins on which the common rafters rest.
- proficiency test — an exam which test how proficient or skilled someone is in a particular activity, field of study, language, etc
- pseudoscientific — any of various methods, theories, or systems, as astrology, psychokinesis, or clairvoyance, considered as having no scientific basis.
- quasi-scientific — of or relating to science or the sciences: scientific studies.
- question of fact — a question concerning the reality of an alleged event or circumstance in a trial by jury, usually determined by the jury.
- reclassification — categorization in a different way
- reconnection fee — an amount of money that a company charges customers in order to reconnect their supply of electricity, water, gas, or telephone after it has been stopped
- rectified spirit — a constant-boiling mixture of ethanol and water, containing 95.6 per cent ethanol
- reflection plane — a plane through a crystal that divides the crystal into two halves that are mirror images of each other.
- refracting angle — an angle formed by a ray which is refracted and which is perpendicular to the refracting surface
- refractive index — index of refraction.
- refrigerator car — a freight car having either an ice chest or machinery for chilling perishables and sometimes having a heating unit to keep perishables from freezing.