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16-letter words containing f, e, d, o, r

  • kondratieff wave — a long business cycle of economic expansion and contraction, postulated to last about 60 years.
  • la rochefoucauld — François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 6th Duc de, 1613–80, French moralist and composer of epigrams and maxims.
  • lady of pleasure — a prostitute.
  • land-poor farmer — a farmer who owns much unprofitable land and lacks the money to maintain its fertility or improve it
  • leasehold reform — reform of the law relating to leasehold property
  • 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.
  • letter of credit — an order issued by a banker allowing a person named to draw money to a specified amount from correspondents of the issuer.
  • lithium fluoride — a fine, white, slightly water-soluble powder, LiF, used chiefly in the manufacture of ceramics.
  • 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.
  • man of few words — man who speaks very little
  • man of the world — a man who is widely experienced in the ways of the world and people; an urbane, sophisticated man.
  • manhood suffrage — the right of adult male citizens to vote
  • matter of record — a fact or statement that appears on the record of a court and that can be proved or established by producing such record.
  • medal of bravery — a Canadian award for courage
  • medal of freedom — a former name of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
  • microfilm reader — a machine that displays on a screen a magnified image of a microfilm
  • modacrylic fiber — any of various synthetic copolymer textile fibers, as Dynel, containing less than 85 percent but more than 35 percent of acrylonitrile.
  • modified-release — denoting a formulation of a medicinal drug taken orally that releases the active ingredients over several hours, in order to maintain a relatively constant plasma concentration of the drug
  • mohammed of ghor — (Mu'izz-ad-din) died 1206, Muslim Sultan of Ghazni 1173–1206: established Muslim power in India.
  • no fixed address — Someone who is of no fixed address does not have a permanent place to live.
  • no hard feelings — If you say ' no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
  • 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.
  • north battleford — a city in W central Saskatchewan, in central Canada.
  • north plainfield — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • off-road vehicle — An off-road vehicle is a vehicle that is designed to travel over rough ground.
  • off-the-shoulder — not covering the shoulder
  • old north french — the dialect of Old French spoken in northern France. Abbreviation: ONF.
  • once and for all — former; having at one time been: the once and future king.
  • one for the road — a long, narrow stretch with a smoothed or paved surface, made for traveling by motor vehicle, carriage, etc., between two or more points; street or highway.
  • open-die forging — Open-die forging is a forging process in which the flow of metal is not kept completely in the die.
  • order of service — a prescribed form of liturgical service, or of administration of a rite or ceremony
  • order of the day — the agenda for an assembly, meeting, group, or organization.
  • ordnance factory — a factory that makes military weapons and ammunition
  • outboard profile — an exterior side elevation of a vessel, showing all deck structures, rigging, fittings, etc.
  • paraformaldehyde — a white, crystalline polymer of formaldehyde, (HCOH) n , from which it is obtained by evaporation of the aqueous solution: used chiefly as an antiseptic.
  • parts of lindsey — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
  • pearls of wisdom — good advice, wise words
  • perforated ulcer — an ulcer that bursts through the stomach wall and leaks food and gastric juices into the abdominal cavity
  • performance bond — contract bond.
  • period furniture — furniture that was made during a particular period in time
  • petrified forest — a national park in E Arizona, containing petrified coniferous trees about 170 000 000 years old
  • presence of mind — a calm state of mind that allows one to think clearly or act effectively in an emergency.
  • pride oneself on — to be proud of
  • red flour beetle — a reddish-brown flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, that feeds on stored grain, dried fruit, etc.
  • reflexive domain — A domain satisfying a recursive domain equation. E.g. D = D -> D.
  • reidentification — an act or instance of identifying; the state of being identified.
  • robin goodfellow — Puck (def 1).
  • rule of the road — any of the regulations concerning the safe handling of vessels under way with respect to one another, imposed by a government on ships in its own waters or upon its own ships on the high seas.
  • self-degradation — the act of degrading.
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