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17-letter words containing f, a, t, i, g, u

  • angry fruit salad — (abuse)   A bad visual-interface design that uses too many colours. (This term derives, of course, from the bizarre day-glo colours found in canned fruit salad). Too often one sees similar effects from interface designers using colour window systems such as X; there is a tendency to create displays that are flashy and attention-getting but uncomfortable for long-term use.
  • anti-aircraft gun — a gun intended to destroy enemy aircraft
  • antifouling paint — paint applied to the portion of a hull below the waterline to poison or discourage marine animals and plants that would otherwise cling to it.
  • budgetary deficit — the amount by which government expenditure exceeds income from taxation, customs duties, etc, in any one fiscal year
  • butterfly diagram — a graphical butterfly-shaped representation of the sunspot density on the solar disc in the 11-year sunspot cycle
  • california nutmeg — a tall, pungently aromatic California evergreen tree, Torreya californica, of the yew family, having a fissured, gray-brown bark and small, purple-streaked, green fruit.
  • centrifugal brake — a safety mechanism on a hoist, crane, etc, that consists of revolving brake shoes that are driven outwards by centrifugal force into contact with a fixed brake drum when the rope drum revolves at excessive speed
  • centrifugal force — In physics, centrifugal force is the force that makes objects move outwards when they are spinning around something or travelling in a curve.
  • configurationally — With regard to a configuration.
  • cut a good figure — to appear or behave well
  • cut a poor figure — to appear or behave badly
  • drinking fountain — a water fountain that ejects a jet of water for drinking without a cup.
  • facts and figures — details; precise information
  • farming community — a community where farming is the main industry
  • flight lieutenant — A flight lieutenant is an officer of middle rank in the British air force.
  • floating currency — a currency that is free to fluctuate against other currencies in accordance with market forces
  • flowering currant — an ornamental shrub, Ribes sanguineum, growing to 2 to 3 metres (6 to 9ft) in height, with red, crimson, yellow, or white flowers: family Saxifragaceae
  • freight insurance — insurance paid on goods in transport
  • fulgencio batista — Fulgencio [fool-hen-syaw] /fulˈhɛn syɔ/ (Show IPA), (Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar) 1901–73, Cuban military leader: dictator of Cuba 1934–40; president 1940–44, 1952–59.
  • functional change — a change in the grammatical function of a word, as in the use of the noun input as a verb or the noun fun as an adjective.
  • get a kick out of — enjoy, take pleasure in
  • get a rise out of — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
  • go out of fashion — be dated
  • grapefruit league — a series of training games played by major-league teams before the opening of the season (so named because they take place in the citrus-growing South, as in Florida).
  • human trafficking — the illegal practice of procuring or trading in human beings for the purpose of prostitution, forced labor, or other forms of exploitation.
  • integral function — an entire function.
  • judgment of paris — the decision by Paris to award Aphrodite the golden apple of discord competed for by Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera.
  • league of nations — an international organization to promote world peace and cooperation that was created by the Treaty of Versailles (1919): dissolved April 1946.
  • low-hanging fruit — the fruit that grows low on a tree and is therefore easy to reach
  • magnesium sulfate — a white, water-soluble salt, MgSO 4 , used chiefly in medicine and in the processing of leather and textiles.
  • perforation gauge — a marked ruler used to measure the number of perforations per unit length along the borders of a stamp.
  • political refugee — a person who has fled from a homeland because of political persecution.
  • pre-configuration — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
  • self-perpetuating — continuing oneself in office, rank, etc., beyond the normal limit.
  • separating funnel — a large funnel having a tap in its output tube, used to separate immiscible liquids
  • south farmingdale — a town on central Long Island, in SE New York.
  • thuringian forest — a forested mountain region in central Germany: a resort area.
  • utmost good faith — a principle used in insurance contracts, legally obliging all parties to reveal to the others any information that might influence the others' decision to enter into the contract

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