16-letter words containing f, i

gift certificate — a certificate entitling the bearer to select merchandise of a specified cash value from a store, usually presented as a gift.
go for your life — an expression of encouragement
go off the rails — If someone goes off the rails, they start to behave in a way that other people think is unacceptable or very strange, for example they start taking drugs or breaking the law.
go with the flow — take a relaxed approach
go with the turf — to be an unavoidable part of a particular situation or process
go-faster stripe — a decorative line, intended to be suggestive of high speed, on the bodywork of a car
gold certificate — a former U.S. paper currency issued by the federal government for circulation from 1865 to 1933, equal to and redeemable for gold to a stated value.
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
grim file reaper — (storage, operating system) (GFR) An ITS and LISP Machine utility to remove files according to some program-automated or semi-automatic manual procedure, especially one designed to reclaim mass storage space or reduce name-space clutter (the original GFR actually moved files to tape). See also prowler, reaper. Compare GC, which discards only provably worthless stuff.
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 liaodong — the N part of the Gulf of Chihli, west of the Liaodong Peninsula
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 life period — Physics. the time required for one half the atoms of a given amount of a radioactive substance to disintegrate.
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 a field day — If someone is having a field day, they are very busy doing something that they enjoy, even though it may be hurtful for other people.
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.
high-performance — A high-performance car or other product goes very fast or does a lot.
hold a brief for — to argue for; champion
homme d'affaires — a businessman.
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.
horsehair fungus — an edible white, striated, umbrella-capped mushroom, Marasmius rotula, commonly found in eastern North America.
hourglass figure — the shape of a woman who is well-proportioned and has a small waist
house of worship — house of God.
huckleberry finn — (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) a novel (1884) by Mark Twain.
huffman encoding — Huffman coding
hydroferricyanic — (chemistry) Pertaining to, or containing, or obtained from, hydrogen, ferric iron, and cyanogen.
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.
hydrogen sulfide — a colorless, flammable, water-soluble, cumulatively poisonous gas, H 2 S, having the odor of rotten eggs: used chiefly in the manufacture of chemicals, in metallurgy, and as a reagent in laboratory analysis.
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
immunodeficiency — impairment of the immune response, predisposing to infection and certain malignancies.
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.

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