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16-letter words containing f, a, c, e, g, r

  • audience figures — the number of people regularly watching a television programme or listening to a radio programme
  • boarding officer — a coastguard who boards ships suspected of carrying illegal cargoes or posing a security risk
  • bridge financing — interim or emergency financing through a short- or medium-term loan (bridge loan)
  • bridging finance — money borrowed temporarily to cover the period before a particular event occurs, for example, until a house purchaser receives money under a mortgage
  • cabbage root fly — a dipterous fly, Erioischia brassicae, whose larvae feed on the roots and stems of cabbages and other brassicas: family Muscidae (houseflies, etc)
  • centrifugal pump — a pump having a high-speed rotating impeller whose blades throw the water outwards
  • congo free state — a former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • day of reckoning — If someone talks about the day of reckoning, they mean a day or time in the future when people will be forced to deal with an unpleasant situation which they have avoided until now.
  • disenfranchising — Present participle of disenfranchise.
  • drag coefficient — a measure of the drag of an object in a moving fluid, esp air
  • face recognition — the ability of a computer to scan, store, and recognize human faces for use in identifying people
  • facial neuralgia — paroxysmal darting pain and muscular twitching in the face, evoked by rubbing certain points of the face.
  • fandango on core — (jargon, programming)   (Unix/C, from the Mexican dance) In C, a wild pointer that runs out of bounds, causing a core dump, or corrupts the malloc arena in such a way as to cause mysterious failures later on, is sometimes said to have "done a fandango on core". On low-end personal machines without an MMU, this can corrupt the operating system itself, causing massive lossage. Other frenetic dances such as the rhumba, cha-cha, or watusi, may be substituted. See aliasing bug, precedence lossage, smash the stack, memory leak, memory smash, overrun screw, core.
  • feel-good factor — When journalists refer to the feel-good factor, they mean that people are feeling hopeful and optimistic about the future.
  • feeping creature — [feeping creaturism] An unnecessary feature; a bit of chrome that, in the speaker's judgment, is the camel's nose for a whole horde of new features.
  • feulgen reaction — a reaction in which an aldehyde combines with a modified Schiff's reagent to produce a purplish compound: used especially to test for the presence of DNA
  • filter cigarette — a cigarette with a filter tip
  • fingertip search — When the police carry out a fingertip search of a place, they examine it for evidence in a very detailed way.
  • focused strategy — a business strategy in which an organization divests itself of all but its core activities, using the funds raised to enhance the distinctive abilities that give it an advantage over its rivals
  • for a good cause — If you say that something is for a good cause, you mean that it is worth doing or giving to because it will help other people, for example by raising money for charity.
  • foreign exchange — commercial paper drawn on a person or corporation in a foreign nation.
  • forward exchange — a foreign bill purchased at a stipulated price and payable at a future date.
  • franking machine — a machine that franks letters
  • friction gearing — wheels or disks transmitting power by means of frictional contact.
  • frigate mackerel — a small, blue-green, black-striped fish, Auxis thazard, abundant in tropical seas, having dark, oily flesh that is sometimes used as food.
  • gazetted officer — (in India) a senior official whose appointment is published in the government gazette
  • general factotum — a person who does all sorts of jobs; general assistant
  • geoffrey chaucerGeoffrey, 1340?–1400, English poet.
  • gift certificate — a certificate entitling the bearer to select merchandise of a specified cash value from a store, usually presented as a gift.
  • 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.
  • grace-and-favour — (of a house, flat, etc) owned by the sovereign and granted free of rent to a person to whom the sovereign wishes to express gratitude
  • grapefruit juice — nectar of the grapefruit
  • high-performance — A high-performance car or other product goes very fast or does a lot.
  • manufactured gas — a gaseous fuel created from coal, oil, etc., as differentiated from natural gas.
  • of a certain age — of an unspecified age, but no longer young
  • 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.
  • peregrine falcon — a globally distributed falcon, Falco peregrinus, much used in falconry because of its swift flight: several subspecies are endangered.
  • puddling-furnace — the act of a person or thing that puddles.
  • rate of exchange — exchange rate.
  • refracting angle — an angle formed by a ray which is refracted and which is perpendicular to the refracting surface
  • 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.
  • releasing factor — a substance usually of hypothalamic origin that triggers the release of a particular hormone from an endocrine gland.
  • right about face — Military. a command, given to a soldier or soldiers at attention, to turn the body about toward the right so as to face in the opposite direction. the act of so turning in a prescribed military manner.
  • safeguard clause — a clause in a contract, etc, that ensures the protection of something against problems, etc
  • schiff's reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
  • self-deprecating — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
  • self-lubricating — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
  • self-proclaiming — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
  • self-replicating — reproducing itself by its own power or inherent nature: self-replicating organisms.
  • self-sacrificing — sacrifice of one's interests, desires, etc., as for duty or the good of another.

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