18-letter words containing e, n, f, r

fracture toughness — The fracture toughness of a material is how likely it is to resist fracture.
fragile x syndrome — a widespread form of mental retardation caused by a faulty gene on the X chromosome.
fragile-x syndrome — an inherited condition characterized by learning disability: affected individuals have an X-chromosome that is easily damaged under certain conditions
fragmentation bomb — a bomb designed to break into many small, high-velocity fragments when detonated.
frame of reference — a structure of concepts, values, customs, views, etc., by means of which an individual or group perceives or evaluates data, communicates ideas, and regulates behavior.
free-range chicken — a chicken kept in natural nonintensive conditions
free-range poultry — poultry kept in natural nonintensive conditions
free-will offering — a voluntary religious contribution made in addition to what may be expected or required.
french west africa — a former French federation in W Africa, including Dahomey (now Benin), French Guinea, French Sudan (now Mali), Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, and Upper Volta (now Burkina Fasso).
french west indies — islands in the West Indies that belong to France, including two overseas departments (Martinique & Guadeloupe) & several former dependencies of Guadeloupe
frequency function — probability density function (def 2).
frequency response — the effectiveness with which a circuit, device, or system processes and transmits signals fed into it, as a function of the signal frequency.
frequency spectrum — The frequency spectrum of an electrical signal is the distribution of the amplitudes and phases of each frequency component against frequency.
fringe-toed lizard — an iguanid lizard, Uma notata, of sandy deserts of the western U.S. and Mexico, having a wedge-shaped snout and toes fringed with long, pointed scales.
from stem to stern — If something happens from stem to stern on a boat, it involves the whole of the boat.
from the ground up — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
front of the house — façade of residential building, house front
ftp software, inc. — (company) Developers of the original PC/TCP Packet Driver specification. Address: 26 Princess St. Wakefield, MA 01880-3004. Telephone: +1 (617) 246 0900.
fulminating powder — powder that explodes by percussion.
funding operations — the conversion of government floating stock or short-term debt into holdings of long-term bonds
funeral procession — ceremonial cortège at a burial
garden loosestrife — any of various plants belonging to the genus Lysimachia, of the primrose family, having clusters of usually yellow flowers, as L. vulgaris (garden loosestrife) or L. quadrifolia (whorled loosestrife)
general confession — a prayer confessing sins
generic identifier — (language, text) A string constituting the name of a element in an SGML document.
german east africa — a former German territory in E Africa, the area now comprised of continental Tanzania and the independent republics of Rwanda and Burundi.
get off the ground — project: start well
give a person five — to greet or congratulate someone by slapping raised hands
government deficit — A government deficit is a situation in which a government spends more money than it has.
grains of paradise — Usually, grains of paradise. one of the pungent, peppery seeds of an African plant, Aframomum melegueta, of the ginger family, used to strengthen cordials and in veterinary medicine.
grand council fire — a formal gathering of camp fire members requiring a minimum attendance of three troops.
grandfather clause — U.S. History. a clause in the constitutions of some Southern states after 1890 intended to permit whites to vote while disfranchising blacks: it exempted from new literacy and property qualifications for voting those men entitled to vote before 1867 and their lineal descendants.
granulated surface — a roughened surface
half-open interval — a set of numbers between two given numbers but including only one endpoint.
handkerchief table — corner table.
have eyes only for — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
hearts and flowers — maudlin sentimentality: The play is a period piece, full of innocence abused and hearts and flowers.
hedge fund manager — a person in charge of managing a hedge fund and making its investments
hyperproliferation — (biology) An abnormally high rate of proliferation of cells by rapid division.
ideas of reference — a schizophrenic symptom in which the patient thinks that things completely disconnected from him are influencing him or conveying messages to him
immunofluorescence — any of various techniques for detecting an antigen or antibody in a sample by coupling its specifically interactive antibody or antigen to a fluorescent compound, mixing with the sample, and observing the reaction under an ultraviolet-light microscope.
in complete flower — a flower without one or more of the normal parts, as carpels, sepals, petals, pistils, or stamens.
in praise of folly — Latin Moriae Encomium. a prose satire (1509) by Erasmus, written in Latin and directed against theologians and church dignitaries.
in the affirmative — positively, by saying yes
in the first place — firstly
in the grip of sth — If a person, group, or place is in the grip of something, they are being severely affected by it.
in the interest of — the feeling of a person whose attention, concern, or curiosity is particularly engaged by something: She has a great interest in the poetry of Donne.
in the mood for/to — If you say that you are in the mood for something, you mean that you want to do it or have it. If you say that you are in no mood to do something, you mean that you do not want to do it or have it.
in the near future — soon
indefinite article — an article, as English a, an, that denotes class membership of the noun it modifies without particularizing it.
indefinite pronoun — a pronoun, as English some, any, somebody, that leaves unspecified the identity of its referent.

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