15-letter words containing f, i, n
- efficient cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- electrification — The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity.
- embalming fluid — a liquid used to treat a dead body, which contains preservatives to retard putrefaction
- enfant terrible — If you describe someone as an enfant terrible, you mean that they are clever but unconventional, and often cause problems or embarrassment for their friends or families.
- enfranchisement — The act of enfranchising.
- evens favourite — the favourite to win a race and on which the bookmakers are offering even odds.
- exemplification — The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.
- existence proof — non-constructive proof
- explain oneself — to make clear what one means
- extended family — relatives
- extensification — The process of making something (more) extensive.
- fabric softener — a substance added to fabrics during laundering to make them puffier and softer.
- facile princeps — an obvious leader
- factor analysis — the use of one of several methods for reducing a set of variables to a lesser number of new variables, each of which is a function of one or more of the original variables.
- factory chimney — a tall chimney of a factory
- factory farming — Factory farming is a system of farming which involves keeping animals indoors, often with very little space, and giving them special foods so that they grow more quickly or produce more eggs or milk.
- fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
- faint-heartedly — nervously
- fair and square — free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice: a fair decision; a fair judge.
- fair employment — the policy or practice of employing people on the basis of their capabilities only, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability.
- faith community — a community of people sharing the same religious faith
- faithworthiness — the quality of being faithworthy
- falling weather — wet weather, as rain or snow.
- fallopian tubes — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
- familiarisation — Alternative spelling of familiarization.
- familiarization — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
- family business — company owned and run by a family
- family division — a division of the High Court of Justice dealing with divorce, the rights of access to children, etc
- family grouping — a system, used usually in the infant school, of grouping children of various ages together, esp for project work
- family planning — the concept or a program of limiting the size of families through the spacing or prevention of pregnancies, especially for economic reasons.
- family skeleton — a closely guarded family secret
- fanconi anaemia — a rare genetic disorder that can cause bone marrow failure, leukaemia, and tumours
- fantasmagorical — Alternative form of phantasmagorical.
- fantasticalness — The state or condition of being fantastical.
- fashion-forward — relating to, anticipating, or reflecting the most up-to-date fashion trends
- fashionableness — The state of being fashionable; stylishness; elegance.
- fast-food chain — a chain of restaurants serving fast food
- fatal exception — (programming, operating system) A program execution error which is trapped by the operating system and which results in abrupt termination of the program. It may be possible for the program to catch some such errors, e.g. a floating point underflow; others, such as an invalid memory access (an attempt to write to read-only memory or an attempt to read memory outside of the program's address space), may always cause control to pass to the operating system without allowing the program an opportunity to handle the error. The details depend on the language's run-time system and the operating system. See also: fatal error.
- fauntleroy suit — a formal outfit for a boy composed of a hip-length jacket and knee-length pants, often in black velvet, and a wide, lacy collar and cuffs, usually worn with a broad sash at the waist and sometimes a large, loose bow at the neck, popular in the late 19th century.
- feast or famine — characterized by alternating, extremely high and low degrees of prosperity, success, volume of business, etc.: artists who lead a feast-or-famine life.
- feast-or-famine — characterized by alternating, extremely high and low degrees of prosperity, success, volume of business, etc.: artists who lead a feast-or-famine life.
- feather banding — decorative banding of veneer or inlay having the grain laid diagonally to the grain of the principal surface.
- feeding grounds — the place where animals gather to find food
- feelinglessness — Lack of feeling or emotion.
- feminine ending — Prosody. an unaccented syllable at the close of a line of poetry, often one that is added to the metrical pattern as an extra syllable.
- ferranti f100-l — (processor) A processor, with 16-bit addressing, registers and data paths and a 1-bit serial ALU. The F100-L could only access 32K of memory (one address bit was used for indirection). It was designed by a British company for the British Military. The unique feature of the F100-L was that it had a complete control bus available for a coprocessor. Any instruction the F100-L couldn't decode was sent directly to the coprocessor for processing. Applications for coprocessors at the time were limited, but the design is still used in modern processors, such as the National Semiconductor 32000 series. The disk operating system was written by Alec Cawley.
- ferrihemoglobin — methemoglobin.
- fetal diagnosis — prenatal determination of genetic or chemical abnormalities in a fetus, esp by amniocentesis
- feynman diagram — a network of lines that represents a series of emissions and absorptions of elementary particles by other elementary particles, from which the probability of the series can be calculated.
- field ambulance — a mobile medical unit that accepts casualties from forward units, treating the lightly wounded and stabilizing the condition of the seriously wounded before evacuating them to a hospital