19-letter words containing f, e, l, a, t

general of the army — the highest ranking military officer; the next rank above general.
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.
gentile da fabriano — 1370?–1427, Italian painter.
geraldton waxflower — an evergreen shrub, Chamelaucium uncinatum, native to W Australia, cultivated for its pale pink flowers
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.
great wall of china — a system of fortified walls with a roadway along the top, constructed as a defense for China against the nomads of the regions that are now Mongolia and Manchuria: completed in the 3rd century b.c., but later repeatedly modified and rebuilt. 2000 miles (3220 km) long.
gulf of carpentaria — a shallow inlet of the Arafura Sea, in N Australia between Arnhem Land and Cape York Peninsula
gulf of tehuantepec — an inlet of the Pacific on the south coast of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in S Mexico
half wave rectifier — A half wave rectifier removes the negative component of an alternating signal leaving only the positive part.
half-wave rectifier — a rectifier that changes only one half of a cycle of alternating current into a pulsating, direct current.
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.
hang on the lips of — to listen to with close attention
hatfield-mccoy feud — a blood feud between two mountain clans on the West Virginia–Kentucky border, the Hatfields of West Virginia and the McCoys of Kentucky, that grew out of their being on opposite sides during the Civil War and was especially violent during 1880–90.
have half a mind to — to have the intention of
health professional — a person trained to work in any field of physical or mental health.
heat of sublimation — the heat absorbed by one gram or unit mass of a substance in the process of changing, at a constant temperature and pressure, from a solid to a gaseous state. Compare sublime (def 10).
hexafluoroplatinate — (chemistry) The univalent anion PtF6- prepared by reacting platinum hexafluoride with certain metals or other elements.
hospital facilities — the equipment and services provided by a hospital
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.
incomplete fracture — a fracture extending partly across the bone.
indefinite integral — a representation, usually in symbolic form, of any function whose derivative is a given function.
infantile paralysis — poliomyelitis.
informal settlement — a squatter camp
information algebra — Theoretical formalism for DP, never resulted in a language. Language Structure Group of CODASYL, ca. 1962. Sammet 1969, 709.
intentional fallacy — (in literary criticism) an assertion that the intended meaning of the author is not the only or most important meaning; a fallacy involving an assessment of a literary work based on the author's intended meaning rather than on actual response to the work.
interfacial tension — the surface tension at the interface of two liquids.
interferometrically — By means of interferometry.
isle of shoals boat — a sailing boat formerly used in Ipswich Bay, Massachusetts, rigged with two spritsails or gaff sails.
islet of langerhans — any of several masses of endocrine cells in the pancreas that secrete insulin, somatostatin, and glucagon.
italian east africa — a former Italian territory in E Africa, formed in 1936 by the merging of Eritrea and Italian Somaliland with newly conquered Ethiopia: taken by the British Imperial forces 1941.
jacques montgolfier — Jacques Étienne [zhahk ey-tyen] /ʒɑk eɪˈtyɛn/ (Show IPA), 1745–99, and his brother Joseph Michel [zhaw-zef mee-shel] /ʒɔˈzɛf miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA) 1740–1810, French aeronauts: inventors of the first practical balloon 1783.
judgment by default — a judgment in the plaintiff's favour when the defendant fails to plead or to appear
ladies-of-the-night — plural of lady-of-the-night.
lady of the evening — a prostitute.
land of enchantment — New Mexico (used as a nickname).
leading aircraftman — the rank above aircraftman
leading coefficient — the coefficient of the term of highest degree in a given polynomial. 5 is the leading coefficient in 5 x 3 + 3 x 2 − 2 x + 1.
left-luggage locker — a coin-operated locker in which luggage can be left
left-luggage office — a checkroom for baggage.
level of attainment — one of ten groupings, each with its own attainment criteria based on pupil age and ability, within which a pupil is assessed
lift the curtain on — to begin
line of demarcation — a separation between things deemed to be distinct
line-of-battle ship — ship of the line.
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.
loss-of-containment — Loss-of-containment happens when a fluid which is usually contained somewhere escapes from that place.
love at first sight — instant romantic attraction to sb
lymphoproliferation — (medicine) the excessive production of lymphocytes.
lymphoproliferative — Characterized by lymphoproliferation.
mail transfer agent — Message Transfer Agent

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