21-letter words containing f, e, r
- franco-belgian system — French system.
- frankfort on the main — a city in W central Germany, on the Main River.
- frankfort on the oder — a city in NE Germany, on the Oder River.
- fraudulent conversion — conversion committed with the intent to defraud
- frederick william iii — 1770–1840, king of Prussia 1797–1840.
- free alongside vessel — (of a shipment of goods) delivered to the dock without charge to the buyer, but excluding the cost of loading onto the vessel
- free-floating anxiety — chronic anxiety occurring for no identifiable cause
- freedom of expression — the unrestrained right to voice ideas, opinions, etc
- french and indian war — the war in America in which France and its Indian allies opposed England 1754–60: ended by Treaty of Paris in 1763.
- french foreign legion — a unit of the French Army formerly serving esp in French North African colonies. It is largely recruited from foreigners, with French senior officers
- french fried potatoes — a more formal name for chips
- frequent wash shampoo — a shampoo whose mildness allows it to be used frequently
- friends with benefits — friends who have a casual sexual relationship with no expectation of commitment
- friuli-venezia giulia — a region in NE Italy: formerly part of Venezia Giulia, most of which was ceded to Yugoslavia (now Croatia and Slovenia) in 1947. 2947 sq. mi. (7630 sq. km).
- from dan to beersheba — from one end of Israel to the other: Judg. 20:1
- full faith and credit — the obligation under Article IV of the U.S. Constitution for each state to recognize the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state.
- functional illiterate — a person with some basic education who still falls short of a minimum standard of literacy or whose reading and writing skills are inadequate to everyday needs.
- functional imperative — a requirement for the survival of any social system, as communication, control of conflict, or socialization.
- fundamental frequency — the lowest frequency at which a medium will freely oscillate.
- garden of remembrance — an area of land containing cultivated plants, trees, etc, to commemorate the dead
- general of the armies — a special rank held by John J. Pershing, equivalent to general of the army.
- gentleman of the road — a highwayman.
- get/have the hots for — If you say that one person has the hots for another, you mean that they feel a strong sexual attraction to that person.
- girlfriend experience — a service provided by a prostitute that includes more personal activity, such as kissing, than provided traditionally by sex workers
- glen of imaal terrier — a strongly-built medium-sized variety of terrier with a medium-length coat and short forelegs
- grammatical inference — Deducing a grammar from given examples. Also known as "inductive inference" and recently as "computational learning".
- ground-effect machine — ACV (def 2).
- have heard sth before — If you say that you have heard something before, you mean that you are not interested in it, or do not believe it, or are not surprised about it, because you already know about it or have experienced it.
- hay-pauncefote treaty — an agreement (1901) between the U.S. and Great Britain giving the U.S. the sole right to build a canal across Central America connecting the Atlantic and Pacific.
- high court of justice — an English court formed in 1873 from several superior courts and consisting of a court of original jurisdiction (High Court of Justice) and an appellate court (Court of Appeal)
- higher-order function — (HOF) A function that can take one or more functions as argument and/or return a function as its value. E.g. map in (map f l) which returns the list of results of applying function f to each of the elements of list l. See also curried function.
- highest common factor — greatest common divisor. Abbreviation: H.C.F.
- hildegard (of bingen) — Saint(1098-1179); Ger. nun, composer, & mystic: her day is Sept. 17
- horns and halo effect — a tendency to allow one's judgement of another person, esp in a job interview, to be unduly influenced by an unfavourable (horns) or favourable (halo) first impression based on appearances
- house of prostitution — a brothel.
- identification papers — documents that serve to establish someone's identity
- identification parade — a group of persons including one suspected of having committed a crime assembled for the purpose of discovering whether a witness can identify the suspect
- illinois bundleflower — a warm-season perennial, Desmanthus illinoensis, having small brown legumes and fernlike leaves, native to North American prairies, glades, and pastures.
- imperfect competition — economics: when sb has excessive influence on market price
- in (or out of) order — in (or not in) proper sequence or position
- in (or out of) phase — in (or not in) a state of exactly parallel movements, oscillations, etc.; in (or not in) synchronization
- in (or out of) place — in (or out of) the customary, proper, or assigned place
- in a state of undress — If someone is in a state of undress, they do not have all their clothes on.
- in the course of time — eventually
- in the first instance — You say in the first instance to mention something that is the first step in a series of actions.
- infant mortality rate — number of babies dying
- infant welfare clinic — a medical facility that specializes in the health and well-being of young babies
- infectious ectromelia — ectromelia (def 2).
- infertility treatment — treatment aimed at helping a couple conceive
- inflationary universe — a version of the big bang theory in which the universe underwent very rapid growth during the first fraction of a second before it settled down to its current rate of expansion.