19-letter words containing f, e, i, s, a

deflate compression — deflate
deflationary spiral — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
dictionary of names — a dictionary of given names that indicates whether a name is usually male, female, or unisex and often includes origins as well as meanings; for example, as by indicating that Evangeline, meaning “good news,” comes from Greek. Used primarily as an aid in selecting a name for a baby, dictionaries of names may also include lists of famous people who have shared a name and information about its current popularity ranking.
disablement benefit — (in Britain) a noncontributory benefit payable to a person disabled through injury or disease caused by their work
disenfranchisements — Plural form of disenfranchisement.
distinctive feature — a feature of the sound system of a language that serves as the crucial distinguishing mark between two phonemes, as the distinctive feature of voicing, which distinguishes b from p in English, or nasality, which distinguishes m from b and p.
diversified farming — the practice of producing a variety of crops or animals, or both, on one farm, as distinguished from specializing in a single commodity.
draw someone's fire — to attract the criticism or censure of someone
elastic deformation — In elastic deformation a material changes shape when a stress is applied to it but goes back to its original state when the stress is removed.
electrostatic field — an electric field associated with static electric charges
end of transmission — (character) (EOT) The mnemonic for ASCII character 4.
factitious disorder — any of various syndromes, as Münchausen syndrome, characterized by physical or psychological symptoms intentionally produced by a person and under voluntary control.
fall by the wayside — to cease or fail to continue doing something
false consciousness — a Marxist theory that people are unable to see things, especially exploitation, oppression, and social relations, as they really are; the hypothesized inability of the human mind to develop a sophisticated awareness of how it is developed and shaped by circumstances.
family-sized packet — a large packet
farmers cooperative — an organization of farmers for marketing their products or buying supplies.
fault tree analysis — (programming) A form of safety analysis that assesses hardware safety to provide failure statistics and sensitivity analyses that indicate the possible effect of critical failures.
fault-based testing — (testing) Software testing using test data designed to demonstrate the absence of a set of pre-specified faults; typically, frequently occurring faults. For example, to demonstrate that the software handles or avoids divide by zero correctly, the test data would include zero.
feast of dedication — Hanukkah.
female circumcision — clitoridectomy.
female impersonator — a male performer who dresses as and impersonates women.
financial statement — a document that records the financial activities and state of an organization or person
finds its/their way — If something finds its way somewhere, it comes to that place, especially by chance.
first international — a socialistic organization (1864–76) formed to unite and promote the interests of workers throughout the world. Compare international (def 6).
first person plural — a grammatical category of pronouns and verbs used by the speaker to refer to or talk about himself together with others
first-past-the-post — A first-past-the-post system for choosing members of parliament or other representatives is one in which the candidate who gets most votes wins.
first-sale doctrine — a legal principle allowing the purchaser of a lawfully made copy of a copyright-protected work to sell or give away that copy without permission but not to reproduce it.
five o'clock shadow — the rather dark stubble that appears on a man's face some hours after shaving, typically in the late afternoon if he shaved in the morning.
five-o'clock shadow — the rather dark stubble that appears on a man's face some hours after shaving, typically in the late afternoon if he shaved in the morning.
fix someone's wagon — any of various kinds of four-wheeled vehicles designed to be pulled or having its own motor and ranging from a child's toy to a commercial vehicle for the transport of heavy loads, delivery, etc.
fixed cost contract — a contract in which the costs do not vary
floating restaurant — a boat or ship that has been converted for use as a restaurant
flowering raspberry — a shrub, Rubus ordoratus, of eastern North America, having loose clusters of showy purplish or rose-purple flowers and inedible, dry, red fruit.
fluoride toothpaste — toothpaste containing a small amount of fluoride as protection against tooth decay
forensic accountant — an accountant who specializes in applying accountancy skills to the purposes of the law
forensic psychiatry — the use of psychiatric knowledge and techniques in questions of law, as in determining legal insanity.
foundation subjects — the subjects studied as part of the National Curriculum, including the compulsory core subjects
fractal compression — (algorithm) A technique for encoding images using fractals.
frameshift mutation — a mutation caused by frameshift.
francesca da rimini — Francesca da, Francesca da Rimini.
fraternal insurance — insurance underwritten by a fraternal society, under either a legal reserve plan or an assessment plan.
free alongside quay — (of a shipment of goods) delivered to the quay without charge to the buyer
free alongside ship — (of a shipment of goods) delivered to the dock without charge to the buyer, but excluding the cost of loading onto the vessel
from rags to riches — a worthless piece of cloth, especially one that is torn or worn.
front-fastening bra — a bra which is fastened together at the front of the body
functional database — (database, language) A database which uses a functional language as its query language. Databases would seem to be an inappropriate application for functional languages since, a purely functional language would have to return a new copy of the entire database every time (part of) it was updated. To be practically scalable, the update mechanism must clearly be destructive rather than functional; however it is quite feasible for the query language to be purely functional so long as the database is considered as an argument. One approach to the update problem would use a monad to encapsulate database access and ensure it was single threaded. Alternative approaches have been suggested by Trinder, who suggests non-destructive updating with shared data structures, and Sutton who uses a variant of a Phil Wadler's linear type system. There are two main classes of functional database languages. The first is based upon Backus' FP language, of which FQL is probably the best known example. Adaplan is a more recent language which falls into this category. More recently, people have been working on languages which are syntactically very similar to modern functional programming languages, but which also provide all of the features of a database language, e.g. bulk data structures which can be incrementally updated, type systems which can be incrementally updated, and all data persisting in a database. Examples are PFL [Poulovassilis&Small, VLDB-91], and Machiavelli [Ohori et al, ACM SIGMOD Conference, 1998].
future date testing — (testing) The process of setting a computer's date to a future date to test a program's (expected or unexpected) date sensitivity. Future date testing only shows the effects of dates on the computer(s) under scrutiny, it does not take into account knock-on effects of dates on other connected systems.
general post office — (in the U.S. postal system) the main post office of a city, county, etc., that also has branch post offices. Abbreviation: G.P.O., GPO.
giovanni da fiesole — Giovanni da [Italian jaw-vahn-nee dah] /Italian dʒɔˈvɑn ni dɑ/ (Show IPA), Angelico, Fra.
give a person a fit — to surprise a person in an outrageous manner

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