16-letter words containing f, a, g, c, e
- 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.
- pull a long face — to look sad, glum, disapproving, etc.
- 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.
- self-vindicating — to clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or the like: to vindicate someone's honor.
- self-vulcanizing — to treat (rubber) with sulfur and heat, thereby imparting strength, greater elasticity, durability, etc.
- smelting furnace — an industrial oven used to heat ore in order to extract metal
- software package — bundle of files to execute computer program
- specific gravity — the ratio of the density of any substance to the density of some other substance taken as standard, water being the standard for liquids and solids, and hydrogen or air being the standard for gases.
- spreading factor — a substance, as hyaluronidase, that promotes the diffusion of a material through body tissues
- staffing officer — someone who recruits, hires, and ensures the interests of staff and employees in an organization
- surface integral — the limit, as the norm of the partition of a given surface into sections of area approaches zero, of the sum of the product of the areas times the value of a given function of three variables at some point on each section.
- surface-printing — planography.
- the gentle craft — fishing
- training officer — a person whose job is to teach people the skills they need for a particular field or profession
- transfer pricing — the setting of a price for the transfer of raw materials, components, products, or services between the trading units of a large organization
- velcro fastening — a fastening made of Velcro
- vertical farming — a proposed system of growing crops in urban areas using specially designed skyscrapers
- zone of leaching — A horizon.