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16-letter words containing f, a, m, o, t, i

  • have no time for — not tolerate
  • hydroformylation — the addition of a hydrogen atom and the formyl group to a double bond of a hydrocarbon by reaction with a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst.
  • infant mortality — death during infancy
  • information desk — helpdesk, information point
  • information pack — a set of leaflets giving information about something
  • knights of malta — the order of Hospitalers.
  • make a day of it — to cause an activity to last a day
  • make a pitch for — to give verbal support to
  • make a virtue of — If you make a virtue of something, you pretend that you did it because you chose to, although in fact you did it because you had to.
  • margin of safety — therapeutic index.
  • matthew of paris — c1200–59, English chronicler.
  • mexican standoff — a stalemate or impasse; a confrontation that neither side can win.
  • microsoft access — 1.   (database)   A relational database running under Microsoft Windows. Data is stored as a number of "tables", e.g. "Stock". Each table consists of a number of "records" (e.g. for different items) and each record contains a number of "fields", e.g. "Product code", "Supplier", "Quantity in stock". Access allows the user to create "forms" and "reports". A form shows one record in a user-designed format and allows the user to step through records one at a time. A report shows selected records in a user-designed format, possibly grouped into sections with different kinds of total (including sum, minimum, maximum, average). There are also facilities to use links ("joins") between tables which share a common field and to filter records according to certain criteria or search for particular field values. Version: 2 (date?). 2.   (communications)   A communications program from Microsoft, meant to compete with ProComm and other programs. It sucked and was dropped. Years later they reused the name for their database.
  • minerva software — A company producing software for the Acorn Archimedes.
  • miraculous fruit — miracle fruit.
  • 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.
  • multiple factors — polygene.
  • new frontiersman — an advocate or follower of the New Frontier, especially one in public service.
  • non-confirmation — the act of confirming.
  • non-confirmatory — serving to confirm; corroborative.
  • non-inflammatory — tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion, etc.: inflammatory speeches.
  • nonmanufacturing — (economics) Outside of the manufacturing sector.
  • orthoformic acid — a hypothetical acid, HC(OH) 3 , known only in the form of its esters.
  • 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.
  • over-familiarity — thorough knowledge or mastery of a thing, subject, etc.
  • placement office — an office in a university that offers students careers advice and help to find employment
  • post-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
  • ramen profitable — If a startup business is ramen profitable, it is barely profitable, just enough to allow the founder to live on the cheapest diet.
  • rich text format — (RTF) An interchange format from Microsoft for exchange of documents between Word and other document preparation systems.
  • romantic fiction — a genre of fiction focused on romantic love
  • self-affirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
  • self-containment — the state of being self-contained.
  • self-examination — examination into one's own state, conduct, motives, etc.
  • self-humiliation — an act or instance of humiliating or being humiliated.
  • self-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
  • self-stimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • sodium bisulfate — a colorless crystalline compound, NaHSO 4 , soluble in water: used in dyeing, in the manufacture of cement, paper, soap, and an acid-type cleaner.
  • standoff missile — a missile capable of striking a distant target after launch by an aircraft outside the range of missile defences
  • stonecrop family — the plant family Crassulaceae, characterized by succulent herbaceous plants and shrubs with simple, fleshy leaves, clusters of small flowers, and dry, dehiscent fruit, and including hen-and-chickens, houseleek, kalanchoe, live-forever, orpine, sedum, and stonecrop.
  • to play for time — If you play for time, you try to make something happen more slowly, because you do not want it to happen or because you need time to think about what to do if it happens.
  • tomato fruitworm — corn earworm.
  • transfer molding — a method of molding thermosetting plastic in which the plastic enters a closed mold from an adjoining chamber in which it has been softened.
  • transformational — the act or process of transforming.
  • two-family house — a house designed for occupation by two families in contiguous apartments, as on separate floors.
  • unconfirmability — to establish the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of; corroborate; verify: This report confirms my suspicions.
  • wide of the mark — If something such as a claim or estimate is wide of the mark, it is incorrect or inaccurate.
  • wipe off the map — to put out of existence
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