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16-letter words containing f, i, c, a

  • fingertip search — When the police carry out a fingertip search of a place, they examine it for evidence in a very detailed way.
  • firewall machine — (networking, security)   A dedicated gateway server with special security precautions on it, used to service external connections (typically from the public Internet). The firewall machine protects servers and networks hidden behind it from crackers. The typical firewall is an inexpensive microprocessor-based Unix machine with no critical data, with public network ports on it, but just one carefully watched connection back to the rest of the cluster. The special precautions may include threat monitoring, call-back, and even a complete iron box keyable to particular incoming IDs or activity patterns. The type of network and security environment of a firewall machine is often called a De-Militarised Zone (DMZ). It may contain other servers such as e-mail servers or proxy gateways - machines that need to be publicly accessible but also need some access to internal systems. Also known as a (Venus) flytrap after the insect-eating plant.
  • fish or cut bait — any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
  • flame cultivator — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
  • flathead catfish — a yellow and brown catfish, Pylodictus olivaris, common in the central U.S., having a flattened head and a projecting lower jaw.
  • flight indicator — artificial horizon (def 3).
  • florencio varela — a city in E Argentina, near Buenos Aires.
  • floridean starch — the storage polysaccharide of red algae.
  • flotation collar — an inflatable device worn around the neck to keep the wearer afloat when in danger of drowning
  • fluosilicic acid — an unstable acid, H 2 SiF 6 , known only in its colorless, poisonous, fuming aqueous solution or in the form of its salts: used chiefly as a wood preservative, a disinfectant, and as a hardening agent in the manufacture of ceramic ware, cement, and concrete.
  • flying ambulance — an aircraft used to take sick or injured people to hospital
  • follicular phase — a stage of the menstrual cycle, from onset of menstruation to ovulation.
  • food intolerance — an intolerance of a specific type of food, causing an adverse reaction
  • football special — a train service provided specially to transport football supporters to and from a match
  • forced vibration — Forced vibration is a type of vibration in which a force is repeatedly applied to a mechanical system.
  • foreign exchange — commercial paper drawn on a person or corporation in a foreign nation.
  • formation packer — A formation packer is a substance that is used as a seal between the casing and the borehole so that part of the hole can be tested.
  • forward chaining — A data-driven technique used in constructing goals or reaching inferences derived from a set of facts. Forward chaining is the basis of production systems. Oppose backward chaining.
  • franchise clause — a clause stipulating that the insured will be responsible for any loss not in excess of a stated amount, and the insurance company will be liable for full payment of the loss equaling or exceeding the amount up to the insured amount.
  • francis joseph i — 1830–1916, emperor of Austria 1848–1916; king of Hungary 1867–1916.
  • francis of paula — Saint, 1416–1507, Italian monk: founder of the order of Minims.
  • francis of sales — Saint, 1567–1622, French ecclesiastic and writer on theology: bishop of Geneva 1602–22.
  • francis townsend — Francis Everett, 1867–1960, U.S. physician and proposer of the Townsend plan.
  • francisco franco — Francisco (Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco-Bahamonde"El Caudillo") 1892–1975, Spanish military leader and dictator: chief of state 1939–47; regent of the kingdom of Spain 1947–75.
  • franking machine — a machine that franks letters
  • frederic mistral — Frédéric [frey-dey-reek] /freɪ deɪˈrik/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, French Provençal poet: Nobel prize 1904.
  • free association — the uncensored expression of the ideas, impressions, etc., passing through the mind of the analysand, a technique used to facilitate access to the unconscious.
  • french ice cream — a type of ice cream in which an egg and cream mixture is cooked to a light custard before being frozen.
  • french indochina — an area in SE Asia, formerly a French colonial federation including Cochin-China, the protectorates of Annam, Cambodia, Tonkin, and Laos, and the leased territory of Kwangchowan: now comprising the three independent states of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Capital: Hanoi.
  • french polynesia — a French overseas territory in the S Pacific, including the Society Islands, Marquesas Islands, and other scattered island groups. 1544 sq. mi. (4000 sq. km). Capital: Papeete.
  • friction gearing — wheels or disks transmitting power by means of frictional contact.
  • frigate mackerel — a small, blue-green, black-striped fish, Auxis thazard, abundant in tropical seas, having dark, oily flesh that is sometimes used as food.
  • functional group — a group of atoms responsible for the characteristic behavior of the class of compounds in which the group occurs, as the hydroxyl group in alcohols.
  • functional shift — a change in the grammatical function of a word, as in the use of the noun input as a verb or the noun fun as an adjective.
  • functional water — water containing additives that provide extra nutritional value
  • fundamentalistic — Fundamentalist.
  • funeral director — a person, usually a licensed embalmer, who supervises or conducts the preparation of the dead for burial and directs or arranges funerals.
  • gas liquefaction — Gas liquefaction is the process of refrigerating a gas to a temperature that is below its critical temperature in order to form a liquid.
  • gazetted officer — (in India) a senior official whose appointment is published in the government gazette
  • gift certificate — a certificate entitling the bearer to select merchandise of a specified cash value from a store, usually presented as a gift.
  • gold certificate — a former U.S. paper currency issued by the federal government for circulation from 1865 to 1933, equal to and redeemable for gold to a stated value.
  • grapefruit juice — nectar of the grapefruit
  • haptic interface — (interface, hardware)   A touch interface to a computer that provides feedback, such as a data glove.
  • head post office — the main post office in a town
  • heat of reaction — the heat evolved or absorbed when one mole of a product is formed at constant pressure
  • high-performance — A high-performance car or other product goes very fast or does a lot.
  • huffman encoding — Huffman coding
  • hydroferricyanic — (chemistry) Pertaining to, or containing, or obtained from, hydrogen, ferric iron, and cyanogen.
  • imperfect market — a market where buyers or sellers can influence the market, and there is a lack of product information
  • imperfectability — The quality of not being perfectable; of being forever imperfect.
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