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16-letter words containing f, a, r, c, i, e

  • french indochina — an area in SE Asia, formerly a French colonial federation including Cochin-China, the protectorates of Annam, Cambodia, Tonkin, and Laos, and the leased territory of Kwangchowan: now comprising the three independent states of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Capital: Hanoi.
  • french polynesia — a French overseas territory in the S Pacific, including the Society Islands, Marquesas Islands, and other scattered island groups. 1544 sq. mi. (4000 sq. km). Capital: Papeete.
  • friction gearing — wheels or disks transmitting power by means of frictional contact.
  • frigate mackerel — a small, blue-green, black-striped fish, Auxis thazard, abundant in tropical seas, having dark, oily flesh that is sometimes used as food.
  • functional water — water containing additives that provide extra nutritional value
  • funeral director — a person, usually a licensed embalmer, who supervises or conducts the preparation of the dead for burial and directs or arranges funerals.
  • gazetted officer — (in India) a senior official whose appointment is published in the government gazette
  • gift certificate — a certificate entitling the bearer to select merchandise of a specified cash value from a store, usually presented as a gift.
  • gold certificate — a former U.S. paper currency issued by the federal government for circulation from 1865 to 1933, equal to and redeemable for gold to a stated value.
  • grapefruit juice — nectar of the grapefruit
  • haptic interface — (interface, hardware)   A touch interface to a computer that provides feedback, such as a data glove.
  • heat of reaction — the heat evolved or absorbed when one mole of a product is formed at constant pressure
  • high-performance — A high-performance car or other product goes very fast or does a lot.
  • hydroferricyanic — (chemistry) Pertaining to, or containing, or obtained from, hydrogen, ferric iron, and cyanogen.
  • imperfect market — a market where buyers or sellers can influence the market, and there is a lack of product information
  • imperfectability — The quality of not being perfectable; of being forever imperfect.
  • infernal machine — a concealed or disguised explosive device intended to destroy life or property.
  • interfacial area — The interfacial area is the total area of contact between two liquids in a liquid-liquid operation.
  • joachim of fiore — ?1132–1202 ad, Italian mystic and philosopher, best known for teaching that history can be divided into three ages, those of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
  • larsen ice shelf — an ice barrier in Antarctica, in the NW Weddell Sea, on the E coast of the Antarctic Peninsula: first explored 1893.
  • letter of advice — a notification from a consignor to a consignee giving specific information as to a shipment, the name of the carrier, the date shipped, etc.
  • louisiana french — French as spoken in Louisiana; Cajun. Abbreviation: LaF.
  • lower california — Baja California.
  • maintenance-free — requiring little or no maintenance: a maintenance-free swimming pool.
  • make a pitch for — to give verbal support to
  • marsh cinquefoil — a variety of cinquefoil, Potentilla palustris, that grows in marshy areas
  • 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.
  • microfilm reader — a machine that displays on a screen a magnified image of a microfilm
  • 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.
  • modacrylic fiber — any of various synthetic copolymer textile fibers, as Dynel, containing less than 85 percent but more than 35 percent of acrylonitrile.
  • multiple factors — polygene.
  • narcotraffickers — Plural form of narcotrafficker.
  • newspaper office — an office where the editorial and production staff of a newspaper work
  • no-fault divorce — a divorce granted without anyone being found guilty of marital misconduct
  • of a certain age — of an unspecified age, but no longer young
  • off-road vehicle — An off-road vehicle is a vehicle that is designed to travel over rough ground.
  • official referee — (in England) a circuit judge attached to the High Court who is empowered to try certain cases, esp where a detailed examination of accounts or other documents is involved
  • pacific sturgeon — a dark gray sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus, inhabiting marine and fresh waters along the northwestern coast of North America, valued as a food and sport fish.
  • peregrine falcon — a globally distributed falcon, Falco peregrinus, much used in falconry because of its swift flight: several subspecies are endangered.
  • persulfuric acid — Also called Caro's acid, permonosulfuric acid, peroxymonosulfuric acid, peroxysulfuric acid. a white, crystalline solid, H 2 SO 5 , used as an oxidizing agent for certain organic compounds.
  • phase difference — the difference between two sinusoidally varying quantities that have the same frequency, measured either as an angle or a time
  • place of worship — religious house: church, temple
  • practical effect — Usually, practical effects. a special effect that is created live on the set of a film, using real-world objects.
  • prespecification — the act of specifying.
  • prima facie case — a case in which the evidence produced is sufficient to enable a decision or verdict to be made unless the evidence is rebutted.
  • prince's feather — a tall, showy plant, Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys, of the amaranth family, having reddish foliage and thick spikes of small, red flowers.
  • prince's-feather — a tall, showy plant, Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys, of the amaranth family, having reddish foliage and thick spikes of small, red flowers.
  • 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.
  • puddling-furnace — the act of a person or thing that puddles.
  • reclassification — categorization in a different way
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