16-letter words containing f, a, v
- affirmative flag — a flag having five horizontal stripes, blue, white, red, white, and blue, from top to bottom, signifying “yes”: letter C in the International Code of Signals.
- alternative fact — a theory posited as an alternative to another, often more widely accepted, theory
- alternative fuel — An alternative fuel is any automotive fuel other than gasoline and diesel fuel.
- angle of advance — the angle in excess of 90° that a steam-engine valve gear is in advance of the crank
- arrival platform — the platform where a train, or passenger arrives
- article of virtu — an object that it interesting because of its rarity, beauty or appeal to a connoisseur
- avail oneself of — to make use of to one's advantage
- blackwater fever — a rare and serious complication of malaria, characterized by massive destruction of red blood cells, producing dark red or blackish urine
- bonneville flats — an area of salt flats in the W part of Great Salt Lake Desert, in NW Utah: site of automobile speed tests.
- brain-fever bird — an Indian cuckoo, Cuculus varius, that utters a repetitive call
- chevaux-de-frise — plural of cheval-de-frise.
- coign of vantage — an advantageous position or stance for observation or action
- cooperative farm — a farm that is run in cooperation with others in the purchasing and using of machinery, stock, etc, and in the marketing of produce through its own institutions (farmers' cooperatives)
- cross of calvary — a Latin cross with a representation of steps beneath it.
- david g farragut — David Glasgow, 1801–70, U.S. admiral: won the battles of New Orleans and Mobile Bay for the Union in the U.S. Civil War.
- diversifications — Plural form of diversification.
- east coast fever — a disease of cattle, endemic in east and central Africa, caused by a parasite, Theileria parva, that is carried by ticks
- fairview heights — a city in SW Illinois.
- family of curves — a collection of curves whose equations differ only by values assigned a parameter or parameters.
- fellow traveller — a companion on a journey
- fielding average — a measure of the fielding ability of a player, obtained by dividing the number of put-outs and assists by the number of put-outs, assists, and errors and carrying out the result to three decimal places. A player with ten errors in 600 chances has a fielding average of .984.
- filterable virus — a virus particle small enough to pass through a filter of diatomaceous earth or porcelain, which will not pass bacteria: chiefly historical or an informal indicator of size, as synthetic membrane filters now permit passage of the smallest virus.
- find favour with — to be approved of by someone
- first derivative — the derivative of a function: Velocity is the first derivative of distance with respect to time.
- fit like a glove — fit perfectly
- flame cultivator — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
- florencio varela — a city in E Argentina, near Buenos Aires.
- forced vibration — Forced vibration is a type of vibration in which a force is repeatedly applied to a mechanical system.
- fort leavenworth — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in E Kansas adjoining Leavenworth, one of the oldest (1827) military posts W of the Mississippi and site of federal penitentiary.
- forward delivery — delivery at a future date.
- four-leaf clover — a clover leaf having four leaflets instead of the usual three, purported to bring good luck.
- franco-provencal — a Romance dialect group of western Switzerland and neighboring parts of France: closely related to both Provençal and northern French.
- grace-and-favour — (of a house, flat, etc) owned by the sovereign and granted free of rent to a person to whom the sovereign wishes to express gratitude
- gravity platform — (in the oil industry) a drilling platform that rests directly on the sea bed and is kept in position by its own weight; it is usually made of reinforced concrete
- harvest festival — religious celebration of crops gathered
- harvey firestone — Harvey Samuel, 1868–1938, U.S. industrialist and rubber manufacturer.
- have a field day — If someone is having a field day, they are very busy doing something that they enjoy, even though it may be hurtful for other people.
- have no time for — not tolerate
- in--one-s--favor — something done or granted out of goodwill, rather than from justice or for remuneration; a kind act: to ask a favor.
- inverse graffiti — a form of street art in which a dirty wall or pavement has a template placed against it and is scrubbed until the surface is clean. This reveals an image or message which gradually fades with time.
- ivyleaf geranium — a geranium plant, pelargonium peltatum, with trailing leaves and white, pink, red, or violet flowers
- javaserver faces — (programming, Java) (JSF) A system for building web applications by assembling reusable user interface components in a web page, connecting these components to a data source and passing client events to server handlers.
- kondratieff wave — a long business cycle of economic expansion and contraction, postulated to last about 60 years.
- leave of absence — permission to be absent from duty, employment, service, etc.; leave.
- 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.
- make a virtue of — If you make a virtue of something, you pretend that you did it because you chose to, although in fact you did it because you had to.
- medal of bravery — a Canadian award for courage
- mental defective — a person who suffers from a learning disability or from some form of mental illness
- minerva software — A company producing software for the Acorn Archimedes.
- no-fault divorce — a divorce granted without anyone being found guilty of marital misconduct
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