19-letter words containing f, i, t, n, g, r
- hang five (or ten) — to ride a surfboard with the toes of one (or both) feet draped over the front edge of the board
- high-flying tippler — a variety of domestic pigeon bred mainly for flying
- immigration officer — official administrating incoming foreigners
- indefinite integral — a representation, usually in symbolic form, of any function whose derivative is a given function.
- index-tracking fund — an investment fund that is administered so that its value changes in line with a given share index
- information algebra — Theoretical formalism for DP, never resulted in a language. Language Structure Group of CODASYL, ca. 1962. Sammet 1969, 709.
- information highway — information superhighway
- islet of langerhans — any of several masses of endocrine cells in the pancreas that secrete insulin, somatostatin, and glucagon.
- 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.
- lagrangian function — kinetic potential.
- landrum-griffin act — an act of Congress (1959) outlawing secondary boycotts, requiring public disclosure of the financial records of unions, and guaranteeing the use of secret ballots in union voting.
- leading aircraftman — the rank above aircraftman
- load-bearing printf — (programming, humour) The kind of bug present in a program which works correctly when producing debug output but fails when the debugging is turned off. The expression combines load-bearing wall and printf as used in debugging by printf.
- magnetomotive force — a scalar quantity that is a measure of the sources of magnetic flux in a magnetic circuit. Abbreviation: mmf.
- mail transfer agent — Message Transfer Agent
- manufacturing plant — factory
- 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.
- negation by failure — An extralogical feature of Prolog and other logic programming languages in which failure of unification is treated as establishing the negation of a relation. For example, if Ronald Reagan is not in our database and we asked if he was an American, Prolog would answer "no".
- not care/give a fig — If you say that someone doesn't care a fig or doesn't give a fig about something, you are emphasizing that they think it is unimportant or that they are not interested in it.
- nothing of the sort — not at all as described
- parting of the ways — When there is a parting of the ways, two or more people or groups of people stop working together or travelling together.
- patent infringement — breach of copyright
- persian gulf states — group of Arab sheikdoms along the Persian Gulf: Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, & United Arab Emirates
- point the finger at — to accuse or blame
- preferential voting — a system of voting designed to permit the voter to indicate an order of preference for the candidates on the ballot.
- put a figure on sth — When you put a figure on an amount, you say exactly how much it is.
- put one's finger on — any of the terminal members of the hand, especially one other than the thumb.
- relief organization — humanitarian group
- resign oneself (to) — to submit or become reconciled (to); accept (something) passively
- right-eyed flounder — any of several flatfishes of the family Pleuronectidae, having both eyes on the right side of the head.
- savings certificate — a certificate of deposit for a specific sum of money in a savings account, especially a deposit for a fixed term at a specified interest rate.
- self-aggrandizement — increase of one's own power, wealth, etc., usually aggressively.
- self-congratulating — the expression or feeling of uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's own accomplishment, good fortune, etc.; complacency.
- self-congratulation — the expression or feeling of uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's own accomplishment, good fortune, etc.; complacency.
- sign of aggregation — any of the signs used to indicate grouping in an algebraic expression: vinculum, bar, or raised horizontal line, ; a pair of parentheses, (a + b); a pair of brackets, [ a + b ]; or a pair of braces, { a + b }.
- significant figures — the figures of a number that express a magnitude to a specified degree of accuracy, rounding up or down the final figure
- splinterproof glass — glass that is designed not to form sharp splinters should it be shattered
- straightforwardness — going or directed straight ahead: a straightforward gaze.
- subsistence farming — farming whose products are intended to provide for the basic needs of the farmer, with little surplus for marketing.
- sugar loaf mountain — a mountain in SE Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, at the entrance to Guanabara Bay. 1280 feet (390 meters).
- take it for granted — If you take it for granted that something is the case, you believe that it is true or you accept it as normal without thinking about it.
- taming of the shrew — a comedy (1594?) by Shakespeare.
- the roaring forties — the areas of ocean between 40° and 50° latitude in the S Hemisphere, noted for gale-force winds
- thread-line fishing — spinning (def 3).
- to one's fingertips — entirely; altogether
- traffic engineering — a branch of civil engineering concerned with the design and construction of streets and roads that will best facilitate traffic movement.
- traffic regulations — rules designed to expedite the flow of traffic and prevent collisions
- trifacial neuralgia — tic douloureux.
- ultrahigh frequency — any frequency between 300 and 3000 megahertz. Abbreviation: UHF, uhf.
- unorganized ferment — ferment (def 2).