19-letter words containing f, i, r, e, s, c

female circumcision — clitoridectomy.
first-sale doctrine — a legal principle allowing the purchaser of a lawfully made copy of a copyright-protected work to sell or give away that copy without permission but not to reproduce it.
fixed cost contract — a contract in which the costs do not vary
foregone conclusion — an inevitable conclusion or result.
forensic accountant — an accountant who specializes in applying accountancy skills to the purposes of the law
forensic psychiatry — the use of psychiatric knowledge and techniques in questions of law, as in determining legal insanity.
four eyes principle — the requirement that a business transaction be approved by at least two individuals
fractal compression — (algorithm) A technique for encoding images using fractals.
francesca da rimini — Francesca da, Francesca da Rimini.
fraternal insurance — insurance underwritten by a fraternal society, under either a legal reserve plan or an assessment plan.
from rags to riches — a worthless piece of cloth, especially one that is torn or worn.
general post office — (in the U.S. postal system) the main post office of a city, county, etc., that also has branch post offices. Abbreviation: G.P.O., GPO.
grandfather's chair — wing chair.
greenstick fracture — an incomplete fracture of a long bone, in which one side is broken and the other side is still intact.
helsinki conference — Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe.
house of correction — a place for the confinement and reform of persons convicted of minor offenses and not regarded as confirmed criminals.
house of councilors — the upper house of the Japanese diet.
hyperfine structure — the splitting of the lines of an atomic spectrum, produced by the angular momentum of the nucleus of the atom.
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.
in consideration of — the act of considering; careful thought; meditation; deliberation: I will give your project full consideration.
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
interesterification — transesterification.
interfacial tension — the surface tension at the interface of two liquids.
italian east africa — a former Italian territory in E Africa, formed in 1936 by the merging of Eritrea and Italian Somaliland with newly conquered Ethiopia: taken by the British Imperial forces 1941.
jacques montgolfier — Jacques Étienne [zhahk ey-tyen] /ʒɑk eɪˈtyɛn/ (Show IPA), 1745–99, and his brother Joseph Michel [zhaw-zef mee-shel] /ʒɔˈzɛf miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA) 1740–1810, French aeronauts: inventors of the first practical balloon 1783.
jockey for position — If someone is jockeying for position, they are using whatever methods they can in order to get into a better position than their rivals.
juan de fuca strait — strait between Vancouver Island and NW Wash.: c. 100 mi (161 km) long
library of congress — one of the major library collections in the world, located in Washington, D.C., and functioning in some ways as the national library of the U.S. although not officially designated as such: established by Congress in 1800 for service to its members, but now also serving government agencies, other libraries, and the public.
low insertion force — (hardware) (LIF) PGA/SPGA sockets with no handle. The integrated circuit is simply pushed into the socket, and levered out to remove. Most motherboard processor sockets are now ZIF rather than LIF.
lyon office of arms — Heralds' Office.
means of production — resources: equipment, workers
membership function — fuzzy subset
ministry of defence — the government department responsible for the country's military measures or resources
miracle of st. mark — a painting (1548) by Tintoretto.
moving spirit/force — The moving spirit or moving force behind something is the person or thing that caused it to start and to keep going, or that influenced people to take part in it.
nasty piece of work — malicious person
neats vs. scruffies — (artificial intelligence, jargon) The label used to refer to one of the continuing holy wars in artificial intelligence research. This conflict tangles together two separate issues. One is the relationship between human reasoning and AI; "neats" tend to try to build systems that "reason" in some way identifiably similar to the way humans report themselves as doing, while "scruffies" profess not to care whether an algorithm resembles human reasoning in the least as long as it works. More importantly, neats tend to believe that logic is king, while scruffies favour looser, more ad-hoc methods driven by empirical knowledge. To a neat, scruffy methods appear promiscuous, successful only by accident and not productive of insights about how intelligence actually works; to a scruffy, neat methods appear to be hung up on formalism and irrelevant to the hard-to-capture "common sense" of living intelligences.
pancreatic fibrosis — cystic fibrosis.
perfect progressive — a verb form including the auxiliary have followed by been and a present participle, noting the continuation of an activity or event, its incompleteness or interruption, and its connection to the temporal point of reference, as in I've been waiting for over an hour, They had been talking about her before she came into the room, or In July, he will have been living here for two years.
performance figures — the statistics that indicate how well or badly a company or organization has performed
peroxysulfuric acid — persulfuric acid (def 1).
pillars of hercules — the two promontories at the E end of the Strait of Gibraltar: the Rock of Gibraltar on the European side and the Jebel Musa on the African side; according to legend, formed by Hercules
pirates of penzance — an operetta (1879) by Sir William S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan.
plastic deformation — In plastic deformation a material changes shape when a stress is applied to it and does not go back to its original state when the stress is removed.
post office problem — (algorithm) Given a set of points (in N dimensions), find another point which minimises the sum of the distances from that point to each of the others.
post-and-rail fence — a fence constructed of upright wooden posts with horizontal timber slotted through it
presumption of fact — a presumption based on experience or knowledge of the relationship between a known fact and a fact inferred from it.
private first class — a soldier ranking above a private and below a corporal or specialist fourth class in the U.S. Army, and above a private and below a lance corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps.
professional advice — advice given by someone trained in a particular and relevant profession or job

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