16-letter words containing f, i, d, u
- four-wheel drive — a drive system in which engine power is transmitted to all four wheels for improved traction.
- fourth dimension — Physics, Mathematics. a dimension in addition to length, width, and depth, used so as to be able to employ geometrical language in discussing phenomena that depend on four variables: Time is considered a fourth dimension for locating points in space-time.
- frontier dispute — a conflict concerning a frontier between countries and which usually involves those countries
- fundamental unit — one of a set of unrelated units that form the basis of a system of units. For example, the metre, kilogram, and second are fundamental units of the SI system
- 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.
- group identifier — (operating system) (gid) A unique number, between 0 an 32767, identifying a set of users under Unix. Gids are found in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group databases (or their NIS equivalents) and one is also associated with each file, indicating the group to which its group permissions apply.
- gulf of liaodong — the N part of the Gulf of Chihli, west of the Liaodong Peninsula
- gulf of thailand — an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina
- headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
- huffman encoding — Huffman coding
- hydrogen sulfide — a colorless, flammable, water-soluble, cumulatively poisonous gas, H 2 S, having the odor of rotten eggs: used chiefly in the manufacture of chemicals, in metallurgy, and as a reagent in laboratory analysis.
- immunodeficiency — impairment of the immune response, predisposing to infection and certain malignancies.
- infant education — (in England and Wales) education provided for children at infant schools
- infinite product — a sequence of numbers in which an infinite number of terms are multiplied together.
- kingdom-of-nubia — a region in S Egypt and the Sudan, N of Khartoum, extending from the Nile to the Red Sea.
- line of latitude — an imaginary line on a globe, map, etc, indicating latitude
- lithium fluoride — a fine, white, slightly water-soluble powder, LiF, used chiefly in the manufacture of ceramics.
- mahmud of ghazni — a.d. 971?–1030, Muslim Amir of Ghazni 997–1030.
- medium frequency — any frequency between 300 and 3000 kilohertz. Abbreviation: MF.
- mercuric sulfide — a crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous compound, HgS, occurring as a coarse, black powder (black mercuric sulfide) or as a fine, bright-scarlet powder (red mercuric sulfide) used chiefly as a pigment and as a source of the free metal.
- no-fault divorce — a divorce granted without anyone being found guilty of marital misconduct
- out of condition — If someone is out of condition, they are unhealthy and unfit, because they do not do enough exercise.
- out of your mind — If you say that someone is out of their mind, you mean that they are mad or very foolish.
- outboard profile — an exterior side elevation of a vessel, showing all deck structures, rigging, fittings, etc.
- period furniture — furniture that was made during a particular period in time
- persulfuric acid — Also called Caro's acid, permonosulfuric acid, peroxymonosulfuric acid, peroxysulfuric acid. a white, crystalline solid, H 2 SO 5 , used as an oxidizing agent for certain organic compounds.
- pseudoscientific — any of various methods, theories, or systems, as astrology, psychokinesis, or clairvoyance, considered as having no scientific basis.
- puddling-furnace — the act of a person or thing that puddles.
- radius of action — the maximum distance that a ship, aircraft, or land vehicle can travel from its base and return without refuelling
- refinery upgrade — A refinery upgrade is the process of introducing the newest technology in some parts of the refinery.
- self-constituted — constituted as such by oneself or itself
- self-destruction — the destruction or ruination of oneself or one's life.
- self-destructive — harmful, injurious, or destructive to oneself: His constant arguing with the boss shows he's a self-destructive person.
- self-dissolution — the act or process of resolving or dissolving into parts or elements.
- self-liquidating — capable of being sold and converted into cash within a short period of time or before the date on which the supplier must be paid.
- self-preoccupied — preoccupied by one's own concerns
- self-reproducing — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- shoulder surfing — a form of credit-card fraud in which the perpetrator stands behind and looks over the shoulder of the victim as he or she withdraws money from an automated teller machine, memorizes the card details, and later steals the card
- sodium bisulfate — a colorless crystalline compound, NaHSO 4 , soluble in water: used in dyeing, in the manufacture of cement, paper, soap, and an acid-type cleaner.
- sodium bisulfite — Sodium bisulfite is a crystalline compound used as an antioxidant and stabilizing agent.
- south plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
- studentification — the renting of particular accommodation exclusively to students
- sulfocarbanilide — thiocarbanilide.
- superfecundation — the fertilization of two or more ova discharged at the same ovulation by successive acts of sexual intercourse.
- sutton coldfield — a town in central England, in Birmingham unitary authority, West Midlands; a residential suburb of Birmingham. Pop: 105 452 (2001)
- texture modifier — a substance that is added to food products to increase viscosity
- tierra del fuego — a group of islands at the S tip of South America, separated from the mainland by the Strait of Magellan: jointly owned by Argentina and Chile; boundary disputed. 27,476 sq. mi. (71,165 sq. km).
- time out of mind — time immemorial (def 1).
- undifferentiable — capable of being differentiated.