16-letter words containing f, l, a, n, d
- fool around with — have casual sex
- forward analysis — An analysis which determines properties of the output of a program from properties of the inputs.
- forward planning — business: making future provisions
- four-dimensional — of a space having points, or a set having elements, which require four coordinates for their unique determination.
- franz josef land — an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, E of Spitzbergen and N of Novaya Zemlya: belongs to the Russian Federation.
- freeboard length — the length of a vessel, measured on the summer load line from the fore side of the stem to some part of the stern, usually the after side of the rudderpost.
- friendly islands — Tonga
- fringed polygala — a North American milkwort, Polygala paucifolia, having flowers with purplish-pink, winglike petals and a fringed tube.
- front-end loader — a loader having a shovel or bucket at the end of an articulated arm located at the front of the vehicle.
- fundamental bass — a bass consisting of the roots of the chords employed.
- fundamental star — one of a number of stars with positions that have been determined accurately and that are used as reference stars for the determination of positions of other celestial objects.
- fundamental unit — one of a set of unrelated units that form the basis of a system of units. For example, the metre, kilogram, and second are fundamental units of the SI system
- fundamentalistic — Fundamentalist.
- funeral director — a person, usually a licensed embalmer, who supervises or conducts the preparation of the dead for burial and directs or arranges funerals.
- gentleman friend — a man with whom a woman is romantically involved; suitor.
- golden handcuffs — payments deferred over a number of years that induce a person to stay with a particular company or in a particular job
- gulf of honduras — an inlet of the Caribbean, on the coasts of Honduras, Guatemala, and Belize
- 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
- half-blind joint — a corner dovetail joint visible on one face only.
- head normal form — (theory, reduction) (HNF) A term describing a lambda expression whose top level is either a variable, a data value, a built-in function applied to too few arguments, or a lambda abstraction whose body is not reducible. I.e. the top level is neither a redex nor a lambda abstraction with a reducible body. An expression in HNF may contain redexes in argument postions whereas a normal form may not. Compare Weak Head Normal Form.
- 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.
- indefatigability — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
- infinite decimal — nonterminating decimal.
- isle of portland — a rugged limestone peninsula in SW England, in Dorset, connected to the mainland by a narrow isthmus and by Chesil Bank: the lighthouse of Portland Bill lies at the S tip; famous for the quarrying of Portland stone, a fine building material. Pop (town): 12 000 (latest est)
- kingdom of arles — a kingdom in SE France which had dissolved by 1378: known as the Kingdom of Burgundy until about 1200
- land-poor farmer — a farmer who owns much unprofitable land and lacks the money to maintain its fertility or improve it
- left-hand dagger — a dagger of the 16th and 17th centuries, held in the left hand in dueling and used to parry the sword of an opponent.
- line of latitude — an imaginary line on a globe, map, etc, indicating latitude
- man of the world — a man who is widely experienced in the ways of the world and people; an urbane, sophisticated man.
- matthew flinders — Matthew, 1774–1814, English navigator and explorer: surveyed coast of Australia.
- mental defective — a person who suffers from a learning disability or from some form of mental illness
- monkey-faced owl — barn owl.
- no hard feelings — If you say ' no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
- no-fault divorce — a divorce granted without anyone being found guilty of marital misconduct
- non-confidential — spoken, written, acted on, etc., in strict privacy or secrecy; secret: a confidential remark.
- north battleford — a city in W central Saskatchewan, in central Canada.
- north plainfield — a city in NE New Jersey.
- once and for all — former; having at one time been: the once and future king.
- parts of lindsey — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
- pass-band filter — band-pass filter
- pribilof islands — a group of islands in the Bering Sea, off SW Alaska, belonging to the US: the breeding ground of the northern fur seal. Area: about 168 sq km (65 sq miles)
- puddling-furnace — the act of a person or thing that puddles.
- red-flannel hash — hash made of ground corned beef, potatoes, and beets
- reflexive domain — A domain satisfying a recursive domain equation. E.g. D = D -> D.
- self-abandonment — absence or lack of personal restraint.
- self-advancement — an act of moving forward.
- self-advertising — the act or practice of calling public attention to one's product, service, need, etc., especially by paid announcements in newspapers and magazines, over radio or television, on billboards, etc.: to get more customers by advertising.
- self-degradation — the act of degrading.
- self-deliverance — suicide.