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

  • 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.
  • confidentialness — The state or quality of being confidential.
  • confused elderly — old and no longer having mental abilities sufficient for independent living
  • contingency fund — a sum of money allocated for use in an emergency or to cover unforeseen expenses
  • convenience food — Convenience food is frozen, dried, or canned food that can be heated and prepared very quickly and easily.
  • corned beef hash — a dish consisting of corned beef chopped and mixed together with mashed potatoes and various other ingredients, then fried
  • correction fluid — a fluid, usually white, that can be painted over a mistake in writing or typing so that the correct form can be written or typed on top
  • 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.
  • croydon facelift — the tightening effect on the skin of a woman's face caused by securing the hair at the back of the head in a tight ponytail
  • curried function — (mathematics, programming)   A function of N arguments that is considered as a function of one argument which returns another function of N-1 arguments. E.g. in Haskell we can define: average :: Int -> (Int -> Int) (The parentheses are optional). A partial application of average, to one Int, e.g. (average 4), returns a function of type (Int -> Int) which averages its argument with 4. In uncurried languages a function must always be applied to all its arguments but a partial application can be represented using a lambda abstraction: \ x -> average(4,x) Currying is necessary if full laziness is to be applied to functional sub-expressions. It was named after the logician Haskell Curry but the 19th-century logician, Gottlob Frege was the first to propose it and it was first referred to in ["Uber die Bausteine der mathematischen Logik", M. Schoenfinkel, Mathematische Annalen. Vol 92 (1924)]. Stefan Kahrs <[email protected]> reported hearing somebody in Germany trying to introduce "scho"nen" for currying and "finkeln" for "uncurrying". The verb "scho"nen" means "to beautify"; "finkeln" isn't a German word, but it suggests "to fiddle".
  • d-type flip-flop — (hardware)   A digital logic device that stores the status of its "D" input whenever its clock input makes a certain transition (low to high or high to low). The output, "Q", shows the currently stored value. Compare J-K flip-flop.
  • dark of the moon — the period during which the moon is not visible.
  • day of atonement — Yom Kippur
  • 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.
  • dead-man's float — a prone floating position, used especially by beginning swimmers, with face downward, legs extended backward, and arms stretched forward.
  • dead-smooth file — the smoothest grade of file commonly used
  • deboursification — (jargon)   Removal of irrelevant newsgroups from the Newsgroups header of a followup. The term applies particularly to the removal of frivolous groups added by one of the Kooks. See also: sneck.
  • debt forgiveness — the action or process of forgiving people their debts
  • decimal fraction — a fraction whose denominator is some power of 10, usually indicated by a dot (decimal point or point) written before the numerator: as 0.4 = 4/10; 0.126 = 126/1000.
  • declassification — to remove the classification from (information, a document, etc.) that restricts access in terms of secrecy, confidentiality, etc. Compare classification (def 5).
  • deflationary gap — a situation in which total spending in an economy is insufficient to buy all the output that can be produced with full employment
  • deflecting force — the apparent deflection (Coriolis acceleration) of a body in motion with respect to the earth, as seen by an observer on the earth, attributed to a fictitious force (Coriolis force) but actually caused by the rotation of the earth and appearing as a deflection to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and a deflection to the left in the Southern Hemisphere.
  • degrees of frost — When someone says that there are a particular number of degrees of frost they mean that the temperature is that number of degrees below freezing point.
  • dehumidification — Dehumidification is the removal of vapor from a gas-vapor mixture.
  • dentist's office — A dentist's office is the room or house where a dentist works.
  • descent function — If a recursive function is of the form f x = ... f (d x) ... then d is known as the descent function.
  • dictionary flame — [Usenet] An attempt to sidetrack a debate away from issues by insisting on meanings for key terms that presuppose a desired conclusion or smuggle in an implicit premise. A common tactic of people who prefer argument over definitions to disputes about reality. Compare spelling flame.
  • direction finder — a receiver with a loop antenna rotating on a vertical axis, used to ascertain the direction of incoming radio waves.
  • distrito federal — Federal District. Abbreviation: D.F.
  • diversifications — Plural form of diversification.
  • do oneself proud — to do extremely well
  • do-it-yourselfer — an advocate or enthusiast of do-it-yourself
  • documentary film — factual, informative film
  • dolce far niente — pleasing inactivity.
  • 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.
  • dorothy canfield — Dorothy, Fisher, Dorothy Canfield.
  • drag coefficient — a measure of the drag of an object in a moving fluid, esp air
  • droves of people — large numbers of people
  • duchess of malfi — a tragedy (1614?) by John Webster.
  • edsel ford range — a mountain range in Antarctica, E of the Ross Sea.
  • elected official — person voted into office
  • embroidery frame — a frame in the form of a pair of (usually circular) rings, designed to keep the fabric taut while an embroiderer works on it
  • exhaust manifold — An exhaust manifold is a heat-resistant tube that connects an engine to an exhaust pipe.
  • fade-in fade-out — an optical effect in which a shot appears gradually out of darkness and then gradually disappears
  • false beechdrops — either of two parasitic or saprophytic plants of the genus Monotropa, especially the tawny or reddish M. hypopithys (false beechdrops) of eastern North America.
  • false dragonhead — a North American plant, Physostegia virginiana, of the mint family, having a spike of tubular, two-lipped, pink or white flowers.
  • fandango on core — (jargon, programming)   (Unix/C, from the Mexican dance) In C, a wild pointer that runs out of bounds, causing a core dump, or corrupts the malloc arena in such a way as to cause mysterious failures later on, is sometimes said to have "done a fandango on core". On low-end personal machines without an MMU, this can corrupt the operating system itself, causing massive lossage. Other frenetic dances such as the rhumba, cha-cha, or watusi, may be substituted. See aliasing bug, precedence lossage, smash the stack, memory leak, memory smash, overrun screw, core.
  • fashion designer — creator of clothing designs
  • fast of gedaliah — Tzom Gedaliah.
  • federation wheat — an early-maturing drought-resistant variety of wheat developed by William Farrar in 1902
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