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

  • factory inspector — a person who inspects factories
  • facts and figures — details; precise information
  • fade in (or out) — to appear or cause to appear (or disappear) gradually; make or become more (or less) distinct
  • faint-heartedness — lack of courage
  • fairness doctrine — a policy mandated by the Federal Communications Commission, requiring radio and television stations to grant equal time to a political candidate, group, etc., to present an opposing viewpoint to one already aired.
  • falling diphthong — a diphthong in which the first of the two apparent vocalic elements is of greater stress or sonority and the second is of lesser stress or sonority, as in (ī), (ou), (oi), etc.
  • fan-assisted oven — an electric oven in which a fan circulates the air and which uses both top and bottom heat
  • farming community — a community where farming is the main industry
  • farthingale chair — an English chair of c1600 having no arms, a straight and low back, and a high seat.
  • fear and loathing — (Hunter S. Thompson) A state inspired by the prospect of dealing with certain real-world systems and standards that are totally brain-damaged but ubiquitous - Intel 8086s, COBOL, EBCDIC, or any IBM machine except the Rios (also known as the RS/6000).
  • feathered friends — Birds are sometimes referred to as our feathered friends.
  • feint-ruled paper — writing paper with light horizontal lines printed across at regular intervals
  • felix frankfurter — Felix, 1882–1965, U.S. jurist, born in Austria: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1939–62.
  • female chauvinist — a female who patronizes, disparages, or otherwise denigrates males in the belief that they are inferior to females and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit.
  • female-chauvinist — a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory.
  • fermentation lock — a valve placed on the top of bottles of fermenting wine to allow bubbles to escape
  • ferrimagnetically — In a ferrimagnetic manner.
  • fifth commandment — “Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee”: fifth of the Ten Commandments.
  • fifth normal form — database normalisation
  • financial futures — futures in a stock-exchange index, currency exchange rate, or interest rate enabling banks, building societies, brokers, and speculators to hedge their involvement in these markets
  • find fault (with) — to seek and point out faults (of); complain (about); criticize
  • fingerling potato — a finger-shaped potato
  • first call on sth — If you have first call on something, you will be asked before anyone else whether you want to buy or use it.
  • first commandment — “Thou shalt have no other gods before me”: first of the Ten Commandments.
  • first normal form — database normalisation
  • first performance — the first time that a play or concert is performed
  • fitness programme — a plan to help someone improve their health and physical condition
  • flagrante delicto — Law. in the very act of committing the offense.
  • flight lieutenant — A flight lieutenant is an officer of middle rank in the British air force.
  • floating currency — a currency that is free to fluctuate against other currencies in accordance with market forces
  • floating dry dock — a dock that floats and can be lowered in the water for the entrance of a ship, and then raised for use as a dry dock
  • flowering currant — an ornamental shrub, Ribes sanguineum, growing to 2 to 3 metres (6 to 9ft) in height, with red, crimson, yellow, or white flowers: family Saxifragaceae
  • flowering tobacco — any plant belonging to the genus Nicotiana, of the nightshade family, as N. alata and N. sylvestris, having clusters of fragrant flowers that usually bloom at night, grown as an ornamental.
  • fluid lubrication — lubrication in which bearing surfaces are separated by an oil film sustained by the motion of the parts
  • football hooligan — a noisy violent football supporter
  • fore-and-aft sail — any of various sails, as jib-headed sails, gaff sails, lugsails, lateen sails, spritsails, staysails, and jibs, that do not set on yards and whose normal position, when not trimmed, is in a fore-and-aft direction amidships.
  • foreign relations — (used with a singular verb) the field of foreign affairs: an expert in foreign relations.
  • foreign secretary — foreign minister.
  • formative element — a morpheme that serves as an affix, not as a base, or root, in word formation.
  • forward quotation — the price quoted on a forward delivery.
  • foundation course — A foundation course is a course that you do at some colleges and universities in order to prepare yourself for a longer or more advanced course.
  • fountain of youth — a fabled spring whose waters were supposed to restore health and youth, sought in the Bahamas and Florida by Ponce de León, Narváez, De Soto, and others.
  • fourier transform — a mapping of a function, as a signal, that is defined in one domain, as space or time, into another domain, as wavelength or frequency, where the function is represented in terms of sines and cosines.
  • fractal dimension — (mathematics)   A common type of fractal dimension is the Hausdorff-Besicovich Dimension, but there are several different ways of computing fractal dimension. Fractal dimension can be calculated by taking the limit of the quotient of the log change in object size and the log change in measurement scale, as the measurement scale approaches zero. The differences come in what is exactly meant by "object size" and what is meant by "measurement scale" and how to get an average number out of many different parts of a geometrical object. Fractal dimensions quantify the static *geometry* of an object. For example, consider a straight line. Now blow up the line by a factor of two. The line is now twice as long as before. Log 2 / Log 2 = 1, corresponding to dimension 1. Consider a square. Now blow up the square by a factor of two. The square is now 4 times as large as before (i.e. 4 original squares can be placed on the original square). Log 4 / log 2 = 2, corresponding to dimension 2 for the square. Consider a snowflake curve formed by repeatedly replacing ___ with _/\_, where each of the 4 new lines is 1/3 the length of the old line. Blowing up the snowflake curve by a factor of 3 results in a snowflake curve 4 times as large (one of the old snowflake curves can be placed on each of the 4 segments _/\_). Log 4 / log 3 = 1.261... Since the dimension 1.261 is larger than the dimension 1 of the lines making up the curve, the snowflake curve is a fractal. [sci.fractals FAQ].
  • fractionalization — Separation into parts by fractionalizing.
  • frankenstein food — any foodstuff that has been genetically modified
  • fraternal society — a club or other association, usually of men, having a limited membership and devoted to professional, religious, charitable, or social activities.
  • freezer container — a rigid plastic container used to hold food that is to be frozen
  • freight insurance — insurance paid on goods in transport
  • front-line player — a regular player on a sports team or one who plays in the farthest forward position
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