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16-letter words containing f, a, n, l, e, t

  • man of the world — a man who is widely experienced in the ways of the world and people; an urbane, sophisticated man.
  • managerial staff — staff in positions of management
  • 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
  • metallofullerene — (chemistry) A fullerene containing an enclosed metal atom.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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-quantifiable — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
  • non-transferable — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
  • nonfinite clause — a clause with a nonfinite verb or with no verb, as the hour being late in The hour being late, we left.
  • nonproliferation — the action or practice of curbing or controlling an excessive, rapid spread: nonproliferation of nuclear weapons.
  • north battleford — a city in W central Saskatchewan, in central Canada.
  • north plainfield — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • nuclear transfer — the procedure used to produce the first cloned mammals, in which the nucleus of a somatic cell is transferred into an egg cell whose own nucleus has been removed. This cell is then stimulated by an electric shock to divide and form an embryo
  • outsmart oneself — to have one's efforts at cunning or cleverness result in one's own disadvantage
  • parallel fortran — (language)   (Pfortran) Extensions to Fortran by Ridgway Scott <[email protected]> of Houston University. Pfortran provides a shared memory SIMD model on message passing computers. It was under development in 1994.
  • parts of lindsey — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
  • pass-band filter — band-pass filter
  • personal effects — belongings
  • physical fitness — good physical condition
  • placement office — an office in a university that offers students careers advice and help to find employment
  • platform-balance — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
  • principal rafter — a diagonal member of a roof principal, usually forming part of a truss and supporting the purlins on which the common rafters rest.
  • quarter-finalist — A quarter-finalist is a person or team that is competing in a quarter-final.
  • quinquefoliolate — (botany) Having five leaflets.
  • 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.
  • rattlesnake fern — any of several American grape ferns, especially Botrychium virginianium, having clusters of sporangia resembling the rattles of a rattlesnake.
  • rattlesnake flag — any of a number of U.S. flags that bear a picture of a rattlesnake and the motto “Don't Tread on Me,” especially those used during the French and Indian War and the American Revolution.
  • reclassification — categorization in a different way
  • reflection plane — a plane through a crystal that divides the crystal into two halves that are mirror images of each other.
  • refracting angle — an angle formed by a ray which is refracted and which is perpendicular to the refracting surface
  • releasing factor — a substance usually of hypothalamic origin that triggers the release of a particular hormone from an endocrine gland.
  • seat of learning — People sometimes refer to a university or a similar institution as a seat of learning.
  • self-abandonment — absence or lack of personal restraint.
  • self-advancement — an act of moving forward.
  • self-advertising — the act or practice of calling public attention to one's product, service, need, etc., especially by paid announcements in newspapers and magazines, over radio or television, on billboards, etc.: to get more customers by advertising.
  • self-affirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
  • self-approbation — approval; commendation.
  • self-containment — the state of being self-contained.
  • self-cultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
  • self-degradation — the act of degrading.
  • self-denigrating — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
  • self-denigration — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
  • self-deprecating — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
  • self-deprecation — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
  • self-deprivation — the act of depriving.
  • self-designation — a name taken for oneself or one's own people
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