16-letter words containing f, a, i, n, t

line of latitude — an imaginary line on a globe, map, etc, indicating latitude
maintenance-free — requiring little or no maintenance: a maintenance-free swimming pool.
managerial staff — staff in positions of management
manifest destiny — the belief or doctrine, held chiefly in the middle and latter part of the 19th century, that it was the destiny of the U.S. to expand its territory over the whole of North America and to extend and enhance its political, social, and economic influences.
margin of safety — therapeutic index.
matthew flinders — Matthew, 1774–1814, English navigator and explorer: surveyed coast of Australia.
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.
minerva software — A company producing software for the Acorn Archimedes.
misconfiguration — An incorrect or inappropriate configuration.
misspecification — An incorrect specification.
multifariousness — (uncountable) The characteristic of being multifarious.
multilinear form — a function or functional of several variables such that when all variables but one are held fixed, the function is linear in the remaining variable.
narcotraffickers — Plural form of narcotrafficker.
narcotrafficking — the buying and selling of illegal drugs.
neo-confucianist — of or relating to neo-Confucians or neo-Confucianism.
new frontiersman — an advocate or follower of the New Frontier, especially one in public service.
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.
non-confirmation — the act of confirming.
non-confirmatory — serving to confirm; corroborative.
non-inflammatory — tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion, etc.: inflammatory speeches.
non-quantifiable — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
non-satisfaction — an act of satisfying; fulfillment; gratification.
nonfinite clause — a clause with a nonfinite verb or with no verb, as the hour being late in The hour being late, we left.
nonmanufacturing — (economics) Outside of the manufacturing sector.
nonproliferation — the action or practice of curbing or controlling an excessive, rapid spread: nonproliferation of nuclear weapons.
north plainfield — a city in NE New Jersey.
not the faintest — no idea whatsoever
of a certain age — of an unspecified age, but no longer young
of it own accord — If something happens of its own accord, it seems to happen by itself, without anyone making it happen.
on a war footing — If a country or armed force is on a war footing, it is ready to fight a war.
on the safe side — as a precaution
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.
operating profit — the profit of a company, etc, after it deducts its operating costs or the costs necessary to conduct the business
ostend manifesto — a declaration (1854) issued from Ostend, Belgium, by the U.S. ministers to England, France, and Spain, stating that the U.S. would be justified in seizing Cuba if Spain did not sell it to the U.S.
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.
packing fraction — Physics. a measure of the stability of an atomic nucleus, equal to 10 4 multiplied by the mass defect and divided by the mass number.
partial fraction — one of the fractions into which a given fraction can be resolved, the sum of such simpler fractions being equal to the given fraction: Partial fractions of 5/(x2−x) are 5/(x−1) and −5/x.
partial function — A function which is not defined for all arguments of its input type. E.g. f(x) = 1/x if x /= 0. The opposite of a total function. In denotational semantics, a partial function f : D -> C may be represented as a total function ft : D' -> lift(C) where D' is a superset of D and ft x = f x if x in D ft x = bottom otherwise where lift(C) = C U bottom. Bottom (LaTeX \perp) denotes "undefined".
parts of lindsey — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
pass-band filter — band-pass filter
passive transfer — Immunology. injection of lymphocytes or antibody from an immune or sensitized donor to a nonimmune host in order to impart immunity or test for allergic reactions.
physical fitness — good physical condition
placement office — an office in a university that offers students careers advice and help to find employment
play off against — If you play people off against each other, you make them compete or argue, so that you gain some advantage.
point of contact — (networking) (POC) An individual associated with a particular Internet entity (IP network, domain, ASN).
point of sailing — the bearing of a sailing vessel, considered with relation to the direction of the wind.
post-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.

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