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

  • give a person a fit — to surprise a person in an outrageous manner
  • go off at a tangent — If someone goes off at a tangent, they start saying or doing something that is not directly connected with what they were saying or doing before.
  • go off on a tangent — If someone goes off on a tangent, they start saying or doing something that is not directly connected with what they were saying or doing before.
  • go out of one's way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • greenstick fracture — an incomplete fracture of a long bone, in which one side is broken and the other side is still intact.
  • grosse pointe farms — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
  • 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 five (or ten) — to ride a surfboard with the toes of one (or both) feet draped over the front edge of the board
  • 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 a few too many — If you say that someone has had a few too many or has had a few, you mean that they have drunk too many alcoholic drinks.
  • have a nose for sth — If you say that someone has a nose for something, you mean that they have a natural ability to find it or recognize it.
  • have half a mind to — to have the intention of
  • have the makings of — show potential as
  • 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.
  • 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
  • if i'm not mistaken — You use expressions such as if I'm not mistaken and unless I'm very much mistaken as a polite way of emphasizing the statement you are making, especially when you are confident that it is correct.
  • immigration officer — official administrating incoming foreigners
  • in commemoration of — in remembrance of
  • in consideration of — the act of considering; careful thought; meditation; deliberation: I will give your project full consideration.
  • in the hope of/that — If you do one thing in the hope of another thing happening, you do it because you think it might cause or help the other thing to happen, which is what you want.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • information content — the amount of information in something
  • information officer — someone whose job is to give information to people
  • information science — the study of the nature, collection, and management of information and of its uses, especially involving computer storage and retrievals.
  • information service — a service which provides information
  • information warfare — the use of electronic communications and the internet to disrupt a country's telecommunications, power supply, transport system, etc
  • 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.
  • interactive fiction — an adventure or mystery story, usually presented as a video game or book, in which the player or reader is given choices as to how the storyline is to develop or the mystery is to be solved.
  • interesterification — transesterification.
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