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21-letter words containing f, a, n, r

  • clement of alexandria — Saint. original name Titus Flavius Clemens. ?150–?215 ad, Greek Christian theologian: head of the catechetical school at Alexandria; teacher of Origen. Feast day: Dec 5
  • college of propaganda — information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
  • collimator viewfinder — a type of viewfinder in a camera
  • collins street farmer — a businessman who invests in farms, land, etc
  • comfortably-furnished — containing comfortable furniture
  • conference facilities — Conference facilities are large rooms and pieces of equipment that a hotel provides so an organization can have conference there.
  • confirm a reservation — If you confirm a reservation, you inform someone who has booked a room at a hotel that the reservation is definite.
  • conspiracy of silence — If there is a conspiracy of silence about something, people who know about it have agreed that they will not talk publicly about it, although it would probably be a good thing if people in general knew about it.
  • continental breakfast — A continental breakfast is breakfast that consists of food such as bread, butter, jam, and a hot drink. There is no cooked food.
  • correctional facility — A correctional facility is a prison or similar institution.
  • court of common pleas — (formerly) a superior court exercising jurisdiction in civil actions between private citizens
  • credit life insurance — insurance guaranteeing payment of the unpaid portion of a loan if the debtor should die.
  • customer satisfaction — When customers are pleased with the goods or services they have bought, you can refer to customer satisfaction.
  • dead from the neck up — stupid or unintelligent
  • defender of the faith — the title conferred upon Henry VIII by Pope Leo X in 1521 in recognition of the King's pamphlet attacking Luther's doctrines and retained by subsequent monarchs of England
  • degradation of energy — the principle that during any irreversible process the total energy available to do work decreases.
  • delusions of grandeur — If someone has delusions of grandeur, they think and behave as if they are much more important or powerful than they really are.
  • department of defense — the department of the U.S. federal government charged with ensuring that the military capacity of the U.S. is adequate to safeguard the national security. Abbreviation: DOD.
  • department of justice — the department of the U.S. federal government charged with the responsibility for the enforcement of federal laws. Abbreviation: DOJ.
  • detoxification centre — a place that specializes in the treatment of alcoholism or drug addiction
  • dictionary definition — the meaning of a word as given in a dictionary or dictionaries
  • differential analyzer — an analog computer designed for solving certain differential equations.
  • differential calculus — the branch of mathematics that deals with differentials and derivatives.
  • differential equation — an equation involving differentials or derivatives.
  • differential geometry — the branch of mathematics that deals with the application of the principles of differential and integral calculus to the study of curves and surfaces.
  • differential operator — a function, usually expressed as a polynomial, that indicates linear combinations of the derivatives of the expression on which it operates.
  • differential quotient — derivative (def 6).
  • differential topology — the branch of topology that studies the properties of differentiable manifolds that remain invariant under diffeomorphisms.
  • differential windlass — a pair of hoisting drums of different diameter turning at the same rate, such that a pulley suspended below them on a line wound on the larger drum and unwound from the smaller drum is raised with mechanical advantage.
  • differential-quotient — something that has been derived.
  • discriminant function — a linear function of measurements of different properties of an object or event that is used to assign the object or event to one population or another (discriminant analysis)
  • draft once reuse many — (jargon)   (DORUM) Reusing parts of a document to produce parts of an entirely new document. The term normally refers to text documents but the practise is equally common in programming.
  • drop the handkerchief — a children's game in which all the players but one stand in a circle facing inward, while that one player stealthily drops a handkerchief behind a player in the circle who must pursue and attempt to catch the one who dropped the handkerchief before the latter reaches the vacated place.
  • dumfries and galloway — a region in S Scotland. 2460 sq. mi. (6371 sq. km).
  • dwarf japanese quince — a low, shrubby, Japanese flowering quince, Chaenomeles japonica, of the rose family, having salmon-to-orange flowers and yellow fruit.
  • electromagnetic field — a field of force associated with a moving electric charge equivalent to an electric field and a magnetic field at right angles to each other and to the direction of propagation
  • faculty board meeting — a meeting of the governing body of a faculty
  • fall all over oneself — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
  • false memory syndrome — a psychological condition in which a person believes that he or she remembers events that have not actually occurred.
  • false-memory syndrome — a psychological condition in which a person believes that he or she remembers events that have not actually occurred.
  • feline leukemia virus — a retrovirus, mainly affecting cats, that depresses the immune system and leads to opportunistic infections, lymphosarcoma, and other disorders. Abbreviation: FeLV, FLV.
  • financial underwriter — A financial underwriter is an insurance employee working in financial underwriting.
  • first baron ashburton — Alexander, 1st Baron Ashburton, 1774–1848, British statesman.
  • first consonant shift — the consonant shift described by Grimm's law, which distinguishes Germanic languages from other Indo-European languages.
  • first-round financing — First round financing is the first time a new company raises money from investors.
  • flotation compartment — in a boat, an enclosed section filled with air or gas to give buoyancy
  • food conversion ratio — a ratio expressing the weight of food required to produce a unit gain in the live weight of an animal
  • food standards agency — the full form of FDA
  • foreign exchange rate — the rate that specifies how much the currency of a nation is worth in terms of the currency of another nation
  • forensic anthropology — the branch of physical anthropology in which anthropological data, criteria, and techniques are used to determine the sex, age, genetic population, or parentage of skeletal or biological materials in questions of civil or criminal law.
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