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17-letter words containing f, i, r, e

  • electrical fitter — someone whose job is to fit electrical equipment
  • electrified fence — a barrier that uses electric shocks to deter animals or people from crossing a boundary
  • electrofiltration — Electrofiltration is a separation process in which an electric field is applied across a filter to improve separation.
  • electron affinity — a measure of the ability of an atom or molecule to form a negative ion, expressed as the energy released when an electron is attached
  • electronic office — integrated computer systems designed to handle office work
  • empirical formula — a chemical formula indicating the proportion of each element present in a molecule
  • energy efficiency — a measure of how efficiently an appliance, building, organization or country uses energy
  • english breakfast — An English breakfast is a breakfast consisting of cooked food such as bacon, eggs, sausages, and tomatoes. It also includes toast and tea or coffee.
  • enrolment figures — the numbers of people enrolling at an institution, on a course, etc
  • executive officer — the second-in-command of any of certain military units
  • exfoliating cream — a granular cosmetic preparation that removes dead cells from the skin's surface
  • explosive forming — a rapid method of forming a metal object in which components are made by subjecting the metal to very high pressures generated by a controlled explosion
  • factory inspector — a person who inspects factories
  • facts and figures — details; precise information
  • fade in (or out) — to appear or cause to appear (or disappear) gradually; make or become more (or less) distinct
  • faint-heartedness — lack of courage
  • fair market price — the price of something at which both a seller and a buyer are willing to strike a deal.
  • fair market value — The fair market value of an asset is what a willing buyer would pay a willing seller for it on the open market.
  • fairness doctrine — a policy mandated by the Federal Communications Commission, requiring radio and television stations to grant equal time to a political candidate, group, etc., to present an opposing viewpoint to one already aired.
  • falkland islander — a person from the Falkland Islands
  • false bread-fruit — ceriman.
  • far be it from me — I would not presume; on no account
  • farmers' alliance — an informal name for various regional political organizations that farmers established in the 1880s and that led to the formation of the Peoples' party in 1891–92.
  • farthingale chair — an English chair of c1600 having no arms, a straight and low back, and a high seat.
  • father substitute — a male who replaces an absent father and becomes an object of attachment.
  • fear and loathing — (Hunter S. Thompson) A state inspired by the prospect of dealing with certain real-world systems and standards that are totally brain-damaged but ubiquitous - Intel 8086s, COBOL, EBCDIC, or any IBM machine except the Rios (also known as the RS/6000).
  • feathered friends — Birds are sometimes referred to as our feathered friends.
  • feint-ruled paper — writing paper with light horizontal lines printed across at regular intervals
  • felix frankfurter — Felix, 1882–1965, U.S. jurist, born in Austria: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1939–62.
  • fermentation lock — a valve placed on the top of bottles of fermenting wine to allow bubbles to escape
  • ferrimagnetically — In a ferrimagnetic manner.
  • ferroelectric ram — Ferroelectric Random Access Memory
  • fictitious person — a legal entity or artificial person, as a corporation.
  • fiddleback spider — brown recluse spider.
  • field penny-cress — the common penny-cress, Thlaspi arvense.
  • field sales force — a team of people selling a product or service in the field as opposed to over the telephone, etc
  • figure-eight knot — a kind of knot
  • financial adviser — A financial adviser is someone whose job it is to advise people about financial products and services.
  • financial futures — futures in a stock-exchange index, currency exchange rate, or interest rate enabling banks, building societies, brokers, and speculators to hedge their involvement in these markets
  • financial manager — a person responsible for the supervision and handling of the financial affairs of an organization
  • financial planner — a person whose business is advising individuals in the management of their financial affairs
  • fingerling potato — a finger-shaped potato
  • fingertip control — control exercised through your fingertips, e.g. by touching a touchscreen
  • finite difference — difference (def 9c).
  • fire commissioner — the senior or officer at state or provincial level in charge of fire prevention and fire safety
  • fire extinguisher — a portable container, usually filled with special chemicals for putting out a fire.
  • fire-extinguisher — a portable container, usually filled with special chemicals for putting out a fire.
  • firehose syndrome — (networking, jargon)   An absence, failure or inadequacy of flow control mechanisms causing the sender to overwhelm the receiver. The implication is that, like trying to drink from a firehose, the consequenses are worse than just loss of data, e.g. the receiver may crash. See ping-flood.
  • first commandment — “Thou shalt have no other gods before me”: first of the Ten Commandments.
  • first performance — the first time that a play or concert is performed
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