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

  • frontal lobotomy — Surgery. a psychosurgical procedure in which the frontal lobes are separated from the rest of the brain by cutting the connecting nerve fibers.
  • general factotum — a person who does all sorts of jobs; general assistant
  • gulf of martaban — an inlet of the Bay of Bengal in Myanmar
  • 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.
  • man of the cloth — a clergyman or other ecclesiastic.
  • man of the house — the male head of a household.
  • man of the world — a man who is widely experienced in the ways of the world and people; an urbane, sophisticated man.
  • man-of-the-earth — a morning glory, Ipomoea pandurata, of eastern North America, having white flowers and a very large, tuberous root.
  • margin of safety — therapeutic index.
  • matron of honour — a married woman serving as chief attendant to a bride
  • metallofullerene — (chemistry) A fullerene containing an enclosed metal atom.
  • mexican standoff — a stalemate or impasse; a confrontation that neither side can win.
  • minerva software — A company producing software for the Acorn Archimedes.
  • misconfiguration — An incorrect or inappropriate configuration.
  • misspecification — An incorrect specification.
  • money of account — a monetary denomination used in reckoning, especially one not issued as a coin, as the U.S. mill.
  • month of sundays — a long time
  • 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.
  • name of the game — the essential element, consideration, or ultimate purpose; key: Profit is the name of the game in business.
  • 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.
  • non-manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • nonmanufacturing — (economics) Outside of the manufacturing sector.
  • 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.
  • outsmart oneself — to have one's efforts at cunning or cleverness result in one's own disadvantage
  • performance test — a test requiring little or no use of language, the test materials being designed to elicit manual or behavioral responses rather than verbal ones.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • romantic fiction — a genre of fiction focused on romantic love
  • root normal form — (RNF) Head Normal Form in graph rewriting.
  • self-abandonment — absence or lack of personal restraint.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • terms of payment — The terms of payment of a sale state how and when an invoice is to be paid.
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