16-letter words containing f, e, c, k
- ask for feedback — If you ask for feedback, you ask someone, such as a guest in a hotel, to tell you if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
- blackwater fever — a rare and serious complication of malaria, characterized by massive destruction of red blood cells, producing dark red or blackish urine
- bracknell forest — a unitary authority in SE England, in E Berkshire. Pop: 110 100 (2003 est). Area: 109 sq km (42 sq miles)
- breakfast cereal — a type of food made from a cereal plant and commonly eaten at breakfast
- buckwheat family — the plant family Polygonaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, vines, shrubs, and trees having stems with swollen joints, simple leaves, small, petalless flowers, and fruit in the form of an achene, and including the buckwheat, dock, knotweed, rhubarb, sea grape, and smartweed.
- by the bucketful — If someone produces or gets something by the bucketful, they produce or get something in large quantities.
- chain-link fence — a type of fence made of a mesh woven from steel wire
- cock of the walk — a person who asserts himself or herself in a strutting pompous way
- cock-of-the-rock — either of two tropical South American birds, Rupicola rupicola or R. peruviana, having an erectile crest and (in the male) a brilliant red or orange plumage: family Cotingidae (cotingas)
- confidence trick — A confidence trick is a trick in which someone deceives you by telling you something that is not true, often to trick you out of money.
- control freakery — an obsessive need to be in control of what is happening
- corkscrew flower — snailflower.
- cracked fraction — A cracked fraction is a petroleum fraction (= a portion separated according to a physical property) that has been broken down from a fraction with larger molecules.
- day of reckoning — If someone talks about the day of reckoning, they mean a day or time in the future when people will be forced to deal with an unpleasant situation which they have avoided until now.
- direct free kick — a free kick awarded to a team as the result of a foul by an opposing player and from which a goal can be scored directly, without the ball being touched by another player.
- dome of the rock — a shrine in Jerusalem at the site from which Muhammad ascended through the seven heavens to the throne of God: built on the site of the Jewish Temple.
- falling sickness — epilepsy.
- feedback control — (electronics) A control system which monitors its effect on the system it is controlling and modifies its output accordingly. For example, a thermostat has two inputs: the desired temperature and the current temperature (the latter is the feedback). The output of the thermostat changes so as to try to equalise the two inputs. Computer disk drives use feedback control to position the read/write heads accurately on a recording track. Complex systems such as the human body contain many feedback systems that interact with each other; the homeostasis mechanisms that control body temperature and acidity are good examples.
- ferruginous duck — a common European duck, Aythyra nyroca, having reddish-brown plumage with white wing bars
- formation packer — A formation packer is a substance that is used as a seal between the casing and the borehole so that part of the hole can be tested.
- franking machine — a machine that franks letters
- frigate mackerel — a small, blue-green, black-striped fish, Auxis thazard, abundant in tropical seas, having dark, oily flesh that is sometimes used as food.
- huckleberry finn — (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) a novel (1884) by Mark Twain.
- imperfect market — a market where buyers or sellers can influence the market, and there is a lack of product information
- in a cleft stick — If you say that a person or organization is in a cleft stick, you mean that they are in a difficult situation which will bring them problems and harm whatever they decide to do.
- luck of the draw — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
- make a pitch for — to give verbal support to
- monkey-faced owl — barn owl.
- narcotraffickers — Plural form of narcotrafficker.
- nick someone for — to defraud someone to the extent of
- oak leaf cluster — a U.S. military decoration in the form of a small bronze twig bearing four oak leaves and three acorns, worn on the ribbon of another decoration for valor, wounds, or distinguished service to signify a second award of the same medal.
- off one's rocker — Also called runner. one of the curved pieces on which a cradle or a rocking chair rocks.
- on the back foot — at a disadvantage; outmanoeuvred or outclassed by an opponent
- ovshinsky effect — an effect that turns special types of glassy, thin films into semiconductors upon application of low voltage.
- preference stock — preferred stock.
- rape of the lock — a mock-epic poem (1712) by Alexander Pope.
- scotch blackface — one of a Scottish breed of mountain sheep having a black face and growing long, coarse wool.
- sickness benefit — Sickness benefit is money that you receive regularly from the government when you are unable to work because of illness.
- silky flycatcher — any of several passerine birds of the family Ptilogonatidae, of the southwestern U.S. to Panama, related to the waxwings.
- software package — bundle of files to execute computer program
- stocking stuffer — a small, usually inexpensive gift that is placed with others in a Christmas stocking.
- the black forest — a hilly wooded region of SW Germany, in Baden-Württemberg: a popular resort area
- to lose track of — If you lose track of someone or something, you no longer know where they are or what is happening.
- unfranked income — any income from an investment that does not qualify as franked investment income
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