22-letter words containing f, i, t, n, e
- financial underwriting — Financial underwriting is the process of assessing whether the proposed sum insured and product are reasonable when considering the possible financial loss to the client.
- finite state automaton — Finite State Machine
- first cab off the rank — the first person, etc, to do or take advantage of something
- fitzgerald contraction — the hypothesis that a moving body exhibits a contraction in the direction of motion when its velocity is close to the speed of light.
- fixed investment trust — unit trust (def 1).
- fixed point combinator — (mathematics) (Y) The name used in combinatory logic for the fixed point function, also written as "fix".
- flat-screen television — A flat-screen television is a television with a flat, narrow screen.
- floating exchange rate — a system in which the value of a currency fluctuates against other currencies in accordance with market forces
- flocculent precipitate — a woolly-looking precipitate, as aluminum hydroxide formed by the addition of ammonia to an aluminum-salt solution.
- flushed with something — very excited because of some success or triumph
- foot-and-mouth disease — an acute, contagious, febrile disease of cattle, hogs, sheep, and other hoofed animals, caused by any of various rhinoviruses and characterized by vesicular eruptions in the mouth and about the hoofs, teats, and udder.
- fort benjamin harrison — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in central Indiana, NE of Indianapolis.
- frequency distribution — the correspondence of a set of frequencies with the set of categories, intervals, or values into which a population is classified.
- frequency shift keying — (communications) (FSK) The use of frequency modulation to transmit digital data, i.e. two different carrier frequencies are used to represent zero and one. FSK was originally used to transmit teleprinter messages by radio (RTTY) but can be used for most other types of radio and land-line digital telegraphy. More than two frequencies can be used to increase transmission rates.
- fresh out of something — If you are fresh out of something, you have recently used the last of it and have none left.
- friar minor conventual — a friar belonging to a branch of the Franciscan order that separated from the Observants in the 15th century, and that observes a modification of the rule of St. Francis. Also called Conventual. Compare Friar Minor, capuchin (def 4).
- frictional electricity — static electricity generated by friction
- fringed with something — having a specified thing around the edge
- full english breakfast — morning meal of eggs, bacon, etc.
- galvanomagnetic effect — any of several phenomena that occur when an electric current is passed through a conductor or semiconductor situated in a magnetic field, as the Hall effect.
- genetic fingerprinting — DNA fingerprinting.
- get (or have) wind of — to get (or have) information or a hint concerning; hear (or know) of
- give a person what for — to punish or reprimand a person severely
- give it up for someone — to applaud someone
- give someone the flick — to dismiss someone from consideration
- give someone the shaft — to cheat or trick someone
- government osi profile — (networking, standard) (GOSIP) A subset of OSI standards specific to US Government procurements, designed to maximize interoperability in areas where plain OSI standards are ambiguous or allow excessive options.
- gravitational redshift — (in general relativity) the shift toward longer wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source in a gravitational field, especially at the surface of a massive star.
- gulf of saint lawrence — a deep arm of the Atlantic off the E coast of Canada between Newfoundland and the mainland coasts of Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia
- halfwave rectification — a rectifier that changes only one half of a cycle of alternating current into a pulsating, direct current.
- hammersmith and fulham — a borough of Greater London on the River Thames: established in 1965 by the amalgamation of Fulham and Hammersmith. Pop: 174 200 (2003 est). Area: 16 sq km (6 sq miles)
- heat of solidification — the heat liberated by a unit mass of liquid at its freezing point as it solidifies: equal to the heat of fusion.
- help a person off with — to assist a person in the removal of (clothes)
- hoof-and-mouth disease — foot-and-mouth disease.
- host control interface — (hardware, wireless) (HCI) A network layer in the Bluetooth Core Protocol Stack, lying between the software and the hardware stacks and serving as the interface through which the software controls two of Bluetooth's four core protocols.
- human interface device — (hardware) (HID) Any device to interact directly with humans (mostly input) like keyboard, mouse, joystick, or graphics tablet.
- in (all) fairness (to) — You use fairness in expressions such as in fairness to and in all fairness when you want to add a favourable comment about someone or something that you have just mentioned and to correct a false impression that you might have given.
- in (or out of) office — currently holding (or not holding) power or a particular position of authority
- in on the ground floor — in at the beginning (of a business, etc.) and thus in an especially advantageous position
- in one's stocking feet — wearing stockings or socks but no shoes
- in the eye of the wind — directly against the wind
- in the lap of the gods — If you say that a situation is in the lap of the gods, you mean that its success or failure depends entirely on luck or on things that are outside your control.
- in the neighborhood of — the area or region around or near some place or thing; vicinity: the kids of the neighborhood; located in the neighborhood of Jackson and Vine streets.
- in vitro fertilization — a specialized technique by which an ovum, especially a human one, is fertilized by sperm outside the body, with the resulting embryo later implanted in the uterus for gestation.
- in/of the order of sth — You use in the order of or of the order of when mentioning an approximate figure.
- inferential statistics — the branch of statistics dealing with conclusions, generalizations, predictions, and estimations based on data from samples.
- infinitesimal calculus — the differential calculus and the integral calculus, considered together.
- information management — The planning, budgeting, control and exploitation of the information resources in an organisation. The term encompasses both the information itself and the related aspects such as personnel, finance, marketing, organisation and technologies and systems. Information Managers are responsible for the coordination and integration of a wide range of information handling activities within the organisation. These include the formulation of corporate information policy, design, evaluation and integration of effective information systems and services, the exploitation of IT for competitive advantage and the integration of internal and external information and data.
- information processing — processing of information, especially the handling of information by computers in accordance with strictly defined systems of procedure.
- information technology — the development, implementation, and maintenance of computer hardware and software systems to organize and communicate information electronically. Abbreviation: IT.