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

  • feel constrained — If you feel constrained to do something, you feel that you must do it, even though you would prefer not to.
  • 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.
  • feira de santana — a city in BahÍa state, E Brazil.
  • feminine caesura — a caesura occurring immediately after an unstressed or short syllable.
  • ferdinand marcos — Ferdinand E(dralin) [ed-ruh-lin] /ˈɛd rə lɪn/ (Show IPA), 1917–1989, Philippine political leader: president 1965–86.
  • ferricyanic acid — a brown, crystalline, unstable, water-soluble solid, H 3 Fe(CN) 6 , obtained by the interaction of a ferricyanide and an acid.
  • ferrocyanic acid — a white, crystalline, unstable, water-soluble solid, H 4 Fe(CN) 6 , obtained by the interaction of a ferrocyanide and an acid.
  • 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
  • fibonacci number — a number in the Fibonacci sequence, each of which is the sum of the previous two
  • fibonacci series — a sequence of integers in which each integer (Fibonacci number) after the second is the sum of the two preceding integers; specif., the series 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, . . .
  • fictionalisation — Alternative spelling of fictionalization.
  • fictionalization — to make into fiction; give a somewhat imaginative or fictional version of: to fictionalize a biography.
  • fielding average — a measure of the fielding ability of a player, obtained by dividing the number of put-outs and assists by the number of put-outs, assists, and errors and carrying out the result to three decimal places. A player with ten errors in 600 chances has a fielding average of .984.
  • fifth-generation — denoting developments in computer design to produce machines with artificial intelligence
  • finance director — financial manager
  • finance minister — a member of a government in charge of the financial affairs of a state etc
  • financial doping — the situation in which a sports franchise borrows heavily in order to contract and pay high-performing players, jeopardizing their long-term financial future
  • financialization — (economics) Conversion of intangible value into financial instruments.
  • find favour with — to be approved of by someone
  • fingertip search — When the police carry out a fingertip search of a place, they examine it for evidence in a very detailed way.
  • finite automaton — Finite State Machine
  • fire regulations — rules intended to make sure that people and property stay safe in the event of a fire
  • firewall machine — (networking, security)   A dedicated gateway server with special security precautions on it, used to service external connections (typically from the public Internet). The firewall machine protects servers and networks hidden behind it from crackers. The typical firewall is an inexpensive microprocessor-based Unix machine with no critical data, with public network ports on it, but just one carefully watched connection back to the rest of the cluster. The special precautions may include threat monitoring, call-back, and even a complete iron box keyable to particular incoming IDs or activity patterns. The type of network and security environment of a firewall machine is often called a De-Militarised Zone (DMZ). It may contain other servers such as e-mail servers or proxy gateways - machines that need to be publicly accessible but also need some access to internal systems. Also known as a (Venus) flytrap after the insect-eating plant.
  • first balkan war — Balkan War (def 1).
  • first generation — 1.   (architecture)   first generation computer. 2.   (language)   first generation language.
  • first lieutenant — an officer ranking next above second lieutenant and next below a captain.
  • first-generation — being the first generation of a family to be born in a particular country.
  • fisherman's bend — a knot made by taking a round turn on the object to which the rope is to be fastened, passing the end of the rope around the standing part and under the round turn, and securing the end.
  • fisherman's knot — a knot for joining two ropes of equal thickness consisting of an overhand knot or double overhand knot by each rope round the other, so that the two knots jam when pulled tight
  • fisherman's ring — the signet ring worn by the pope.
  • fishskin disease — ichthyosis
  • flabbergastation — (colloquial) Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted.
  • flabbergastingly — Surprisingly, astonishingly or amazingly.
  • flash eliminator — a device fitted to the muzzle of a firearm to reduce the flash made by the ignited propellant gases
  • flash in the pan — a brief, sudden burst of bright light: a flash of lightning.
  • flight attendant — an airline employee who serves meals, attends to passengers' comfort, etc., during a flight.
  • flight formation — an arrangement of two or more airplanes flying together in a group, usually in a predetermined pattern.
  • flight indicator — artificial horizon (def 3).
  • florencio varela — a city in E Argentina, near Buenos Aires.
  • floridean starch — the storage polysaccharide of red algae.
  • flotation collar — an inflatable device worn around the neck to keep the wearer afloat when in danger of drowning
  • flower arranging — Flower arranging is the art or hobby of arranging cut flowers in a way which makes them look attractive.
  • flying ambulance — an aircraft used to take sick or injured people to hospital
  • flying phalanger — any of various small phalangers of Australia and New Guinea, having a parachutelike fold of skin on each side of the body to give gliding assistance in leaping.
  • food intolerance — an intolerance of a specific type of food, causing an adverse reaction
  • food irradiation — the exposure of food to electromagnetic radiation to kill bacteria and retard deterioration
  • fool around with — have casual sex
  • for a/one minute — If you say that you do not believe for a minute or for one minute that something is true, you are emphasizing that you do not believe that it is true.
  • for the duration — If you say that something will happen for the duration, you mean that it will happen for as long as a particular situation continues.
  • for the meantime — For the meantime means for a period of time from now until something else happens.
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