19-letter words containing f, a, r

lyon office of arms — Heralds' Office.
magnetomotive force — a scalar quantity that is a measure of the sources of magnetic flux in a magnetic circuit. Abbreviation: mmf.
mail transfer agent — Message Transfer Agent
make a pig's ear of — to ruin disastrously
make oneself scarce — insufficient to satisfy the need or demand; not abundant: Meat and butter were scarce during the war.
malice aforethought — a predetermination to commit an unlawful act without just cause or provocation (applied chiefly to cases of first-degree murder).
manufacturing plant — factory
maratha confederacy — a loose league of states in central and western India, c1750–1818.
margaret of navarre — 1492–1549, queen of Navarre 1544–49: patron of literature, author of stories, and poet.
mary wollstonecraft — Mary (Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) 1759–97, English author and feminist (mother of Mary Shelley).
master of foxhounds — the person responsible for the conduct of a fox hunt and to whom all members of the hunt and its staff are responsible. Abbreviation: M.F.H.
master of the horse — (in England) the third official of the royal household
master of the rolls — (in England and Wales) the judge who presides over the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) and who was formerly Keeper of the Records at the Public Record Office
mayor of the palace — one of a line of hereditary administrative lieutenants to the Merovingian kings who eventually took over royal function and title in the Frankish kingdoms; a palatine.
means of production — resources: equipment, workers
measure for measure — a comedy (1604) by Shakespeare.
medical certificate — a document stating the result of a satisfactory medical examination
mediterranean fever — brucellosis.
midafternoon prayer — the fifth of the seven canonical hours; none
mine of information — source of great knowledge
minimum iron fabric — cloth used to make clothes that require little ironing
miracle of st. mark — a painting (1548) by Tintoretto.
more often than not — usually
most favored nation — a nation to which privileges of trade are extended under a government policy of giving the same privileges to all nations that are given to any one of them, sometimes depending on whether certain conditions, as of reciprocity, are met
most-favored-nation — of or relating to the status, treatment, terms, etc., that are embodied in or conferred by a most-favored-nation clause.
mother-of-thousands — strawberry geranium.
nasty piece of work — malicious person
neats vs. scruffies — (artificial intelligence, jargon) The label used to refer to one of the continuing holy wars in artificial intelligence research. This conflict tangles together two separate issues. One is the relationship between human reasoning and AI; "neats" tend to try to build systems that "reason" in some way identifiably similar to the way humans report themselves as doing, while "scruffies" profess not to care whether an algorithm resembles human reasoning in the least as long as it works. More importantly, neats tend to believe that logic is king, while scruffies favour looser, more ad-hoc methods driven by empirical knowledge. To a neat, scruffy methods appear promiscuous, successful only by accident and not productive of insights about how intelligence actually works; to a scruffy, neat methods appear to be hung up on formalism and irrelevant to the hard-to-capture "common sense" of living intelligences.
negation by failure — An extralogical feature of Prolog and other logic programming languages in which failure of unification is treated as establishing the negation of a relation. For example, if Ronald Reagan is not in our database and we asked if he was an American, Prolog would answer "no".
nerve growth factor — a protein that promotes the growth, organization, and maintenance of sympathetic and some sensory nerve cells. Abbreviation: NGF.
non-confrontational — tending toward or ready for confrontation: They came to the meeting with a confrontational attitude.
non-transferability — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
nonforfeiture value — any benefit, as cash or other form of insurance, available to a life-insurance policyholder who discontinues premium payments on the policy.
nordrhein-westfalen — German name of North Rhine-Westphalia.
norfolk island pine — a coniferous evergreen tree, Araucaria heterophylla (or A. excelsa), having whorled branches and needlelike foliage, widely cultivated as a houseplant.
north pacific ocean — the northern part of the Pacific Ocean, extending from the equator to the Arctic Ocean.
not care/give a fig — If you say that someone doesn't care a fig or doesn't give a fig about something, you are emphasizing that they think it is unimportant or that they are not interested in it.
of one's own accord — to be in agreement or harmony; agree.
on (or off) camera — so positioned as to be within (or out of) the camera's field of view
on first name terms — If two people are on first-name terms, they know each other well enough to call each other by their first names, rather than having to use a more formal title.
one after the other — one at a time
open-hearth furnace — a process of steelmaking in which the charge is laid in a furnace (open-hearth furnace) on a shallow hearth and heated directly by burning gas as well as radiatively by the furnace walls.
orange flower water — a distilled infusion of orange blossom, used in cakes, confectionery, etc
order of the garter — the highest order of British knighthood, instituted by Edward III about 1348.
oriental fruit moth — a moth, Grapholitha molesta, introduced into the U.S. from Asia, the larvae of which infest and feed on the twigs and fruits of peach, plum, and related trees.
out of the ordinary — of no special quality or interest; commonplace; unexceptional: One novel is brilliant, the other is decidedly ordinary; an ordinary person.
pancreatic fibrosis — cystic fibrosis.
parainfluenza virus — any of a group of viruses that cause respiratory infections with influenza-like symptoms, esp in children
paraphase amplifier — an amplifier that produces a push-pull output from a single input.
parting of the ways — When there is a parting of the ways, two or more people or groups of people stop working together or travelling together.

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