19-letter words containing f, e, n, t, o

letters of credence — credentials issued to a diplomat or other governmental representative for presentation to the country to which he or she is sent.
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
lift up one's voice — to speak out loudly
limit of resolution — the capacity of an optical system to resolve point objects as separate images.
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.
lose in the shuffle — to leave out or disregard in the confusion of things
loss-of-containment — Loss-of-containment happens when a fluid which is usually contained somewhere escapes from that place.
low insertion force — (hardware) (LIF) PGA/SPGA sockets with no handle. The integrated circuit is simply pushed into the socket, and levered out to remove. Most motherboard processor sockets are now ZIF rather than LIF.
lymphoproliferation — (medicine) the excessive production of lymphocytes.
magnetomotive force — a scalar quantity that is a measure of the sources of magnetic flux in a magnetic circuit. Abbreviation: mmf.
maratha confederacy — a loose league of states in central and western India, c1750–1818.
margaret of navarre — 1492–1549, queen of Navarre 1544–49: patron of literature, author of stories, and poet.
mary wollstonecraft — Mary (Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) 1759–97, English author and feminist (mother of Mary Shelley).
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
membership function — fuzzy subset
menominee whitefish — round whitefish.
midafternoon prayer — the fifth of the seven canonical hours; none
mine of information — source of great knowledge
ministry of defence — the government department responsible for the country's military measures or resources
more often than not — usually
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.
moving spirit/force — The moving spirit or moving force behind something is the person or thing that caused it to start and to keep going, or that influenced people to take part in it.
nasty piece of work — malicious person
negation by failure — An extralogical feature of Prolog and other logic programming languages in which failure of unification is treated as establishing the negation of a relation. For example, if Ronald Reagan is not in our database and we asked if he was an American, Prolog would answer "no".
nerve growth factor — a protein that promotes the growth, organization, and maintenance of sympathetic and some sensory nerve cells. Abbreviation: NGF.
network file system — (networking, operating system) (NFS) A protocol developed by Sun Microsystems, and defined in RFC 1094, which allows a computer to access files over a network as if they were on its local disks. This protocol has been incorporated in products by more than two hundred companies, and is now a de facto standard. NFS is implemented using a connectionless protocol (UDP) in order to make it stateless. See Nightmare File System, WebNFS.
non-confidentiality — spoken, written, acted on, etc., in strict privacy or secrecy; secret: a confidential remark.
non-transferability — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
nonforfeiture value — any benefit, as cash or other form of insurance, available to a life-insurance policyholder who discontinues premium payments on the policy.
nordrhein-westfalen — German name of North Rhine-Westphalia.
north pacific ocean — the northern part of the Pacific Ocean, extending from the equator to the Arctic Ocean.
north-west frontier — the area roughly equivalent to the present North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, which is the days of the British Raj was regarded as one of the most remote and dangerous outposts of the British Empire
not care/give a fig — If you say that someone doesn't care a fig or doesn't give a fig about something, you are emphasizing that they think it is unimportant or that they are not interested in it.
not for much longer — if something will not happen for much longer, it will soon stop happening
nothing of the kind — not that
nothing of the sort — not at all as described
on first name terms — If two people are on first-name terms, they know each other well enough to call each other by their first names, rather than having to use a more formal title.
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.
one after the other — one at a time
one of those things — something that cannot be avoided, helped, changed, etc.
open the floodgates — If events open the floodgates to something, they make it possible for that thing to happen much more often or much more seriously than before.
open-hearth furnace — a process of steelmaking in which the charge is laid in a furnace (open-hearth furnace) on a shallow hearth and heated directly by burning gas as well as radiatively by the furnace walls.
orange flower water — a distilled infusion of orange blossom, used in cakes, confectionery, etc

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