16-letter words containing f, i, t

good-for-nothing — worthless; of no use.
goosefoot family — formerly, the plant family Chenopodiaceae, characterized by often weedy herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually alternate leaves, small and inconspicuous flowers, and tiny, dry fruit, and including the beet, glasswort, goosefoot, Russian thistle, saltbush, and spinach; now part of the amaranth family, Amaranthaceae.
grapefruit juice — nectar of the grapefruit
gravity platform — (in the oil industry) a drilling platform that rests directly on the sea bed and is kept in position by its own weight; it is usually made of reinforced concrete
group identifier — (operating system) (gid) A unique number, between 0 an 32767, identifying a set of users under Unix. Gids are found in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group databases (or their NIS equivalents) and one is also associated with each file, indicating the group to which its group permissions apply.
gulf of thailand — an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina
guy fawkes night — In Britain, Guy Fawkes Night is the evening of 5th November, when many people have parties with bonfires and fireworks. It began as a way of remembering the attempt by Guy Fawkes to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. Guy Fawkes Night is often referred to as 'Bonfire Night'.
half-blind joint — a corner dovetail joint visible on one face only.
haptic interface — (interface, hardware) A touch interface to a computer that provides feedback, such as a data glove.
harvest festival — religious celebration of crops gathered
harvey firestone — Harvey Samuel, 1868–1938, U.S. industrialist and rubber manufacturer.
have no time for — not tolerate
head post office — the main post office in a town
headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
heat of reaction — the heat evolved or absorbed when one mole of a product is formed at constant pressure
heat of solution — the heat evolved or absorbed when one mole of a substance dissolves completely in a large volume of solvent
high-pass filter — a filter that allows high-frequency electromagnetic signals to pass while rejecting or attenuating others below a specific value.
hopfield network — (artificial intelligence) (Or "Hopfield model") A kind of neural network investigated by John Hopfield in the early 1980s. The Hopfield network has no special input or output neurons (see McCulloch-Pitts), but all are both input and output, and all are connected to all others in both directions (with equal weights in the two directions). Input is applied simultaneously to all neurons which then output to each other and the process continues until a stable state is reached, which represents the network output.
hydroformylation — the addition of a hydrogen atom and the formyl group to a double bond of a hydrocarbon by reaction with a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst.
hyper-conformity — action in accord with prevailing social standards, attitudes, practices, etc.
hyperflexibility — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
if it wasn't for — If you talk about what would happen if it wasn't for someone or something, you mean that they are the only thing that is preventing it from happening.
if you must know — You say 'if you must know' when you tell someone something that you did not want them to know and you want to suggest that you think they were wrong to ask you about it.
immediate family — parents, siblings, children
imperfect flower — a unisexual flower with only stamens or only pistils
imperfect fungus — a fungus for which only the asexual reproductive stage is known, as any fungus of the Fungi imperfecti.
imperfect market — a market where buyers or sellers can influence the market, and there is a lack of product information
imperfectability — The quality of not being perfectable; of being forever imperfect.
imperfectibility — The state or quality of being imperfectible.
imperfectiveness — (grammar) The state or quality of being imperfective.
in a cleft stick — If you say that a person or organization is in a cleft stick, you mean that they are in a difficult situation which will bring them problems and harm whatever they decide to do.
in at the finish — being present or taking part at the conclusion, as of a contest
in finite series — a sequence of numbers in which an infinite number of terms are added successively in a given pattern; the sequence of partial sums of a given sequence.
in the course of — If something happens in the course of a particular period of time, it happens during that period of time.
in the middle of — at the centre of
in the nature of — essentially the same as; by way of
in the region of — You say in the region of to indicate that an amount that you are stating is approximate.
in the shadow of — very close to; verging upon
in the throes of — If you are in the throes of doing or experiencing something, especially something difficult, you are busy doing it or are deeply involved in it.
indefatigability — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
infant education — (in England and Wales) education provided for children at infant schools
infant mortality — death during infancy
infantile autism — a disorder appearing in children before the age of two and a half, characterized by lack of interest in others, impaired communication skills, and bizarre behavior, as ritualistic acts and excessive attachment to objects.
infelicitousness — (linguistics, pragmatics) The quality or state of being infelicitous, or pragmatically ill-formed.
infinite decimal — nonterminating decimal.
infinite product — a sequence of numbers in which an infinite number of terms are multiplied together.
infinite regress — causal or logical relationship of terms in a series without the possibility of a term initiating the series.
inflationary gap — the excess of total spending in an economy over the value, at current prices, of the output it can produce
information desk — helpdesk, information point
information pack — a set of leaflets giving information about something

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