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16-letter words containing f, a, t, e, n, u

  • fundamentalistic — Fundamentalist.
  • funeral director — a person, usually a licensed embalmer, who supervises or conducts the preparation of the dead for burial and directs or arranges funerals.
  • gas liquefaction — Gas liquefaction is the process of refrigerating a gas to a temperature that is below its critical temperature in order to form a liquid.
  • general factotum — a person who does all sorts of jobs; general assistant
  • guy fawkes night — In Britain, Guy Fawkes Night is the evening of 5th November, when many people have parties with bonfires and fireworks. It began as a way of remembering the attempt by Guy Fawkes to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. Guy Fawkes Night is often referred to as 'Bonfire Night'.
  • headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
  • heat of solution — the heat evolved or absorbed when one mole of a substance dissolves completely in a large volume of solvent
  • in the nature of — essentially the same as; by way of
  • infant education — (in England and Wales) education provided for children at infant schools
  • infantile autism — a disorder appearing in children before the age of two and a half, characterized by lack of interest in others, impaired communication skills, and bizarre behavior, as ritualistic acts and excessive attachment to objects.
  • intentional foul — a foul deliberately committed by a defensive player to stop play, tactically conceding the penalty of having the fouled player attempt the awarded foul shots in return for possession of the ball.
  • leaf-cutting ant — any of several tropical American ants of the genus Atta that cut and chew bits of leaves and flowers into a mash that they use to cultivate a fungus garden.
  • leaf-cutting bee — any of the bees of the family Megachilidae that cut circular pieces from leaves or flowers to line their nests.
  • lignin sulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
  • line of latitude — an imaginary line on a globe, map, etc, indicating latitude
  • man of the house — the male head of a household.
  • manufactured gas — a gaseous fuel created from coal, oil, etc., as differentiated from natural gas.
  • metallofullerene — (chemistry) A fullerene containing an enclosed metal atom.
  • 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.
  • money of account — a monetary denomination used in reckoning, especially one not issued as a coin, as the U.S. mill.
  • 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.
  • neo-confucianist — of or relating to neo-Confucians or neo-Confucianism.
  • no-fault divorce — a divorce granted without anyone being found guilty of marital misconduct
  • non-manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • non-quantifiable — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
  • nonfinite clause — a clause with a nonfinite verb or with no verb, as the hour being late in The hour being late, we left.
  • nuclear transfer — the procedure used to produce the first cloned mammals, in which the nucleus of a somatic cell is transferred into an egg cell whose own nucleus has been removed. This cell is then stimulated by an electric shock to divide and form an embryo
  • of the nature of — having the essential character of; like
  • one's cup of tea — the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
  • one-way function — (cryptography, mathematics)   A function which is easy to compute but whose inverse is very difficult to compute. Such functions have important applications in cryptography, specifically in public-key cryptography. See also: trapdoor function.
  • outsmart oneself — to have one's efforts at cunning or cleverness result in one's own disadvantage
  • 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.
  • quarter-finalist — A quarter-finalist is a person or team that is competing in a quarter-final.
  • quasi-scientific — of or relating to science or the sciences: scientific studies.
  • question of fact — a question concerning the reality of an alleged event or circumstance in a trial by jury, usually determined by the jury.
  • quinquefoliolate — (botany) Having five leaflets.
  • safety-conscious — conscious of being safe and preventing danger
  • self-cultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
  • self-humiliation — an act or instance of humiliating or being humiliated.
  • self-liquidating — capable of being sold and converted into cash within a short period of time or before the date on which the supplier must be paid.
  • self-lubricating — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
  • self-lubrication — the process of becoming lubricated without external factors
  • self-stimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • self-subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
  • self-sustainment — self-supporting.
  • smelting furnace — an industrial oven used to heat ore in order to extract metal
  • south plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
  • stephen f austinAlfred, 1835–1913, English poet: poet laureate 1896–1913.
  • studentification — the renting of particular accommodation exclusively to students
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