16-letter words containing f, l, a, n, y
- affluent society — a society in which the material benefits of prosperity are widely available
- allele frequency — the frequency of occurrence or proportions of different alleles of a particular gene in a given population.
- antiinflammatory — Alternative spelling of anti-inflammatory.
- antimony sulfate — a white, crystalline, deliquescent, water-insoluble solid, Sb 2 (SO 4) 3 , used chiefly in the manufacture of explosives.
- antimony sulfide — antimony pentasulfide.
- binuclear family — a social unit composed of an extended family, usually the children and subsequent spouses of divorced parents.
- buckthorn family — the plant family Rhamnaceae, characterized by shrubs and trees having alternate, simple leaves, clusters of small flowers, and fruit in the form of a drupe or capsule, and including the buckthorn, cascara, and New Jersey tea.
- california poppy — a papaveraceous plant, Eschscholtzia californica, of the Pacific coast of North America, having yellow or orange flowers and finely divided bluish-green leaves
- canada mayflower — a small wildflower (Maianthemum canadense) of the lily family, with white flowers and red, beadlike berries, found in the N U.S. and in Canada; bead-ruby
- clay-with-flints — a deposit of stiff clay containing unworn whole flints in the S England
- control freakery — an obsessive need to be in control of what is happening
- coreferentiality — (of two words or phrases) having reference to the same person or thing.
- counterfactually — a conditional statement the first clause of which expresses something contrary to fact, as “If I had known.”.
- croydon facelift — the tightening effect on the skin of a woman's face caused by securing the hair at the back of the head in a tight ponytail
- deflationary gap — a situation in which total spending in an economy is insufficient to buy all the output that can be produced with full employment
- dictionary flame — [Usenet] An attempt to sidetrack a debate away from issues by insisting on meanings for key terms that presuppose a desired conclusion or smuggle in an implicit premise. A common tactic of people who prefer argument over definitions to disputes about reality. Compare spelling flame.
- documentary film — factual, informative film
- dorothy canfield — Dorothy, Fisher, Dorothy Canfield.
- dysfunctionality — (uncountable) The condition of being dysfunctional.
- economy of scale — a fall in average costs resulting from an increase in the scale of production
- erlenmeyer flask — conical container used in laboratory
- family allowance — a regular government payment to the parents of children up to a certain age
- family balancing — the choosing of the sex of a future child on the basis of how many children of each sex a family already has
- family physician — a general practitioner.
- fancy dress ball — a ball at which the guests wear fancy dress
- fantasy baseball — imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
- fantasy football — imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
- flabbergastingly — Surprisingly, astonishingly or amazingly.
- flying ambulance — an aircraft used to take sick or injured people to hospital
- flying phalanger — any of various small phalangers of Australia and New Guinea, having a parachutelike fold of skin on each side of the body to give gliding assistance in leaping.
- flynn's taxonomy — (architecture) A classification of computer architectures based on the number of streams of instructions and data: Multiple instruction/single data stream (MISD) - unusual.
- formation flying — a formal arrangement of flying aircraft acting as a unit
- forward analysis — An analysis which determines properties of the output of a program from properties of the inputs.
- fourier analysis — the expression of any periodic function as a sum of sine and cosine functions, as in an electromagnetic wave function. Compare Fourier series.
- french polynesia — a French overseas territory in the S Pacific, including the Society Islands, Marquesas Islands, and other scattered island groups. 1544 sq. mi. (4000 sq. km). Capital: Papeete.
- friendly islands — Tonga
- fringed polygala — a North American milkwort, Polygala paucifolia, having flowers with purplish-pink, winglike petals and a fringed tube.
- frontal lobotomy — Surgery. a psychosurgical procedure in which the frontal lobes are separated from the rest of the brain by cutting the connecting nerve fibers.
- 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.
- infant mortality — death during infancy
- inflationary gap — the excess of total spending in an economy over the value, at current prices, of the output it can produce
- ivyleaf geranium — a geranium plant, pelargonium peltatum, with trailing leaves and white, pink, red, or violet flowers
- law of parsimony — a principle according to which an explanation of a thing or event is made with the fewest possible assumptions.
- lay oneself open — to make oneself vulnerable (to criticism, attack, etc)
- magnifying glass — a lens that produces an enlarged image of an object.
- mexican fruitfly — a brightly colored fly, Anastrepha ludens, whose larvae are a serious pest chiefly of citrus fruits and mangoes in Mexico, Central America, and southern Texas.
- monkey-faced owl — barn owl.
- non-inflammatory — tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion, etc.: inflammatory speeches.
- parts of lindsey — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
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