19-letter words containing f, e, d, r
- geraldton waxflower — an evergreen shrub, Chamelaucium uncinatum, native to W Australia, cultivated for its pale pink flowers
- give one credit for — to commend one for
- godfrey of bouillon — (Duke of Lower Lorraine) 1060?–1100, French leader of the First Crusade 1096–99.
- grandfather's chair — wing chair.
- grandfather's clock — a pendulum floor clock having a case as tall as or taller than a person; tall-case clock; long-case clock.
- gravitational field — the attractive effect, considered as extending throughout space, of matter on other matter.
- halt and catch fire — (humour, processor) (HCF) Any of several undocumented and semi-mythical machine instructions with destructive side-effects, supposedly included for test purposes on several well-known architectures going as far back as the IBM 360. The Motorola 6800 microprocessor was the first for which an HCF opcode became widely known. This instruction caused the processor to read every memory location sequentially until reset.
- hildegard of bingen — Hildegard von (Hildegard of Bingen"Sibyl of the Rhine") 1098–1178, German nun, healer, writer, and composer.
- hold no terrors for — If something holds no terrors for you, you are not at all frightened or worried by it.
- hyperfocal distance — the distance, at a given f number, between a camera lens and the nearest point (hyperfocal point) having satisfactory definition when focused at infinity.
- idea of pure reason — any of the three undemonstrable entities (a personal soul, a cosmos, and a supreme being) implicit in the fact of a subject and an object of knowledge, and in the need for some principle uniting them.
- identification card — a card giving identifying data about a person, as full name, address, age, and color of hair and eyes, and often containing a photograph: for use as identification at a place of employment, school, club, etc.
- identification mark — barcode or serial number
- in consideration of — the act of considering; careful thought; meditation; deliberation: I will give your project full consideration.
- in definite pronoun — a pronoun, as English some, any, somebody, that leaves unspecified the identity of its referent.
- in the tradition of — If you say that something or someone is in the tradition of a person or thing from the past, you mean that they have many features that remind you of that person or thing.
- indefinite integral — a representation, usually in symbolic form, of any function whose derivative is a given function.
- index of refraction — a number indicating the speed of light in a given medium as either the ratio of the speed of light in a vacuum to that in the given medium (absolute index of refraction) or the ratio of the speed of light in a specified medium to that in the given medium (relative index of refraction) Symbol: n.
- index-tracking fund — an investment fund that is administered so that its value changes in line with a given share index
- inductive inference — grammatical inference
- isidorus of miletus — flourished 6th century a.d, Byzantine engineer. He was one of the architects of Hagia Sophia; (originally an Orthodox cathedral and currently a museum in Istanbul, Turkey).
- juan de fuca strait — strait between Vancouver Island and NW Wash.: c. 100 mi (161 km) long
- judicial conference — a conference of judges held to discuss improvements in methods or judicial procedure through court rules or otherwise.
- kingdom of lorraine — an early medieval kingdom on the Meuse, Moselle, and Rhine rivers: later a duchy
- leading aircraftman — the rank above aircraftman
- letters of credence — credentials issued to a diplomat or other governmental representative for presentation to the country to which he or she is sent.
- line of demarcation — a separation between things deemed to be distinct
- load-bearing printf — (programming, humour) The kind of bug present in a program which works correctly when producing debug output but fails when the debugging is turned off. The expression combines load-bearing wall and printf as used in debugging by printf.
- maratha confederacy — a loose league of states in central and western India, c1750–1818.
- master of foxhounds — the person responsible for the conduct of a fox hunt and to whom all members of the hunt and its staff are responsible. Abbreviation: M.F.H.
- means of production — resources: equipment, workers
- medical certificate — a document stating the result of a satisfactory medical examination
- mediterranean fever — brucellosis.
- midafternoon prayer — the fifth of the seven canonical hours; none
- ministry of defence — the government department responsible for the country's military measures or resources
- most favored nation — a nation to which privileges of trade are extended under a government policy of giving the same privileges to all nations that are given to any one of them, sometimes depending on whether certain conditions, as of reciprocity, are met
- most-favored-nation — of or relating to the status, treatment, terms, etc., that are embodied in or conferred by a most-favored-nation clause.
- mother-of-thousands — strawberry geranium.
- nordrhein-westfalen — German name of North Rhine-Westphalia.
- norfolk island pine — a coniferous evergreen tree, Araucaria heterophylla (or A. excelsa), having whorled branches and needlelike foliage, widely cultivated as a houseplant.
- of one's own accord — to be in agreement or harmony; agree.
- officer of the deck — a naval duty officer responsible for the operation of the ship in the absence of the captain or the executive officer. Abbreviation: O.O.D.
- on the threshold of — If you are on the threshold of something exciting or new, you are about to experience it.
- on top of the world — the highest or loftiest point or part of anything; apex; summit. Synonyms: zenith, acme, peak, pinnacle, vertex. Antonyms: bottom, base, foot, lowest point.
- order of the garter — the highest order of British knighthood, instituted by Edward III about 1348.
- out of the ordinary — of no special quality or interest; commonplace; unexceptional: One novel is brilliant, the other is decidedly ordinary; an ordinary person.
- peroxysulfuric acid — persulfuric acid (def 1).
- persistent offender — a person who repeatedly breaks the law
- plastic deformation — In plastic deformation a material changes shape when a stress is applied to it and does not go back to its original state when the stress is removed.
- pocket-handkerchief — handkerchief (def 1).