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16-letter words containing f, a, r, m, t

  • misconfiguration — An incorrect or inappropriate configuration.
  • mossbauer effect — the phenomenon in which an atom in a crystal undergoes no recoil when emitting a gamma ray, giving all the emitted energy to the gamma ray, resulting in a sharply defined wavelength.
  • 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.
  • multiple factors — polygene.
  • 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.
  • orthoformic acid — a hypothetical acid, HC(OH) 3 , known only in the form of its esters.
  • outsmart oneself — to have one's efforts at cunning or cleverness result in one's own disadvantage
  • over-familiarity — thorough knowledge or mastery of a thing, subject, etc.
  • 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.
  • permafrost table — the variable surface constituting the upper limit of permafrost. Compare frostline (def 2).
  • platform-balance — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
  • post-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
  • powerpc platform — (architecture, standard)   (PPCP, PReP - PowerPC Reference Platform, formerly CHRP - Common Hardware Reference Platform) An open system standard, designed by IBM, intended to ensure compatibility among PowerPC-based systems built by different companies. The PReP standard specifies the PCI bus, but will also support ISA, MicroChannel and PCMCIA. PReP-compliant systems will be able to run the Macintosh OS, OS/2, WorkplaceOS, AIX, Solaris, Taligent and Windows NT. IBM systems will (of course) be PReP-compliant. Apple's first PowerPC Macintoshes will not be compliant, but future ones may be.
  • 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.
  • rich text format — (RTF) An interchange format from Microsoft for exchange of documents between Word and other document preparation systems.
  • romantic fiction — a genre of fiction focused on romantic love
  • root normal form — (RNF) Head Normal Form in graph rewriting.
  • self-affirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
  • self-dramatizing — exaggerating one's own qualities, role, situation, etc., for dramatic effect or as an attention-getting device; presenting oneself dramatically.
  • self-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
  • self-terminating — to bring to an end; put an end to: to terminate a contract.
  • small/fine print — The small print or the fine print of something such as an advertisement or a contract consists of the technical details and legal conditions, which are often printed in much smaller letters than the rest of the text.
  • smelting furnace — an industrial oven used to heat ore in order to extract metal
  • 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.
  • systems software — Computers. a collection of system programs for use with a particular computer system.
  • tabernacle frame — a frame, especially of the 18th century, around a doorway, niche, etc., that suggests a small building, characteristically one with a pediment and two pilasters on a base.
  • take a page from — to follow the example of; imitate
  • tariff agreement — an agreement between countries or geographical areas relating to taxes levied by governments on imports or occasionally exports for purposes of protection, support of the balance of payments, or the raising of revenue
  • terms of payment — The terms of payment of a sale state how and when an invoice is to be paid.
  • the fact remains — You say the fact remains that something is the case when you want to emphasize that the situation must be accepted.
  • the first family — a President's family
  • thomas jefferson — Joseph, 1829–1905, U.S. actor.
  • to play for time — If you play for time, you try to make something happen more slowly, because you do not want it to happen or because you need time to think about what to do if it happens.
  • tomato fruitworm — corn earworm.
  • transfer company — a company that transports people or luggage for a relatively short distance, as between terminals of two railroad lines.
  • transfer molding — a method of molding thermosetting plastic in which the plastic enters a closed mold from an adjoining chamber in which it has been softened.
  • transfer payment — any payment made by a government for a purpose other than that of purchasing goods or services, as for welfare benefits.
  • transformational — the act or process of transforming.
  • unconfirmability — to establish the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of; corroborate; verify: This report confirms my suspicions.
  • vertical farming — a proposed system of growing crops in urban areas using specially designed skyscrapers
  • visiting fireman — an influential person accorded special treatment while visiting an organization, industry, city, etc.
  • waterleaf family — the plant family Hydrophyllaceae, characterized by usually hairy herbaceous plants having lobed, divided, or compound leaves, five-parted blue or white flowers, and capsular fruit, and including baby-blue-eyes, phacelia, and waterleaf.
  • welfare payments — government benefits
  • wide of the mark — If something such as a claim or estimate is wide of the mark, it is incorrect or inaccurate.
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