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16-letter words containing f, l, o

  • fertility symbol — an object, esp a phallic symbol, used in fertility-cult ceremonies to symbolize regeneration
  • feulgen reaction — a reaction in which an aldehyde combines with a modified Schiff's reagent to produce a purplish compound: used especially to test for the presence of DNA
  • fictionalisation — Alternative spelling of fictionalization.
  • fictionalization — to make into fiction; give a somewhat imaginative or fictional version of: to fictionalize a biography.
  • fielder's choice — a fielder's attempt to put out a base runner rather than the batter when a play at first base would put out the batter.
  • file composition — A typesetting language.
  • file compression — (algorithm)   The compression of data in a file, usually to reduce storage requirements.
  • fill one's boots — to take or do as much of something as one wants
  • filter promotion — (algorithm)   In a generate and test algorithm, combining part of the filter with the generator in order to reduce the number of potential solutions generated. A trivial example: filter (< 100) [1..1000] ==> [1..99] where [1..n] generates the list of integers from 1 to n. Here the filter has been combined completely with the generator. This is an example of fusion.
  • financial doping — the situation in which a sports franchise borrows heavily in order to contract and pay high-performing players, jeopardizing their long-term financial future
  • financialization — (economics) Conversion of intangible value into financial instruments.
  • find one's level — to find one's most suitable place socially, professionally, etc
  • finishing school — a private school, usually at the high-school or junior-college level, that teaches young women social graces and prepares them for life in society.
  • finless porpoise — a porpoise Neophocaena phocaenoides of the Indian and pacific Oceans that completely lacks a dorsal fin
  • fire regulations — rules intended to make sure that people and property stay safe in the event of a fire
  • fire-tube boiler — any boiler for generating steam by passing hot gases and other combustible products through tubes (fire tubes) immersed in water to a chimney or uptake.
  • firework display — a public event at which fireworks are set alight
  • fit like a glove — fit perfectly
  • flabbergastation — (colloquial) Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted.
  • flamborough head — a chalk promontory in NE England, on the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire
  • flame cultivator — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
  • flash eliminator — a device fitted to the muzzle of a firearm to reduce the flash made by the ignited propellant gases
  • flash photolysis — the study of photochemical reaction mechanisms in gases by analyzing spectroscopically the reaction products in a gas mixture irradiated with a powerful light flash.
  • flashbulb memory — the clear recollections that a person may have of the circumstances associated with a dramatic event
  • flat-bed plotter — a mechanized drafting device, usually computer driven, incorporating a moving pen whose horizontal and vertical range in two dimensions is limited only by the size of the bed of the device.
  • flatheaded borer — the larva of a metallic wood-boring beetle, having an expanded and flattened anterior end.
  • flettner control — servocontrol (def 3).
  • flight formation — an arrangement of two or more airplanes flying together in a group, usually in a predetermined pattern.
  • flight indicator — artificial horizon (def 3).
  • flight simulator — a device used in pilot and crew training that provides a cockpit environment and sensations of flight under actual conditions.
  • florencio varela — a city in E Argentina, near Buenos Aires.
  • floridean starch — the storage polysaccharide of red algae.
  • flotation collar — an inflatable device worn around the neck to keep the wearer afloat when in danger of drowning
  • flower arranging — Flower arranging is the art or hobby of arranging cut flowers in a way which makes them look attractive.
  • flowering quince — any shrub belonging to the genus Chaenomeles, of the rose family, native to eastern Asia, having showy, waxy flowers and a quincelike fruit, grown widely as an ornamental.
  • fluorescent lamp — a tubular electric discharge lamp in which light is produced by the fluorescence of phosphors coating the inside of the tube.
  • fluosilicic acid — an unstable acid, H 2 SiF 6 , known only in its colorless, poisonous, fuming aqueous solution or in the form of its salts: used chiefly as a wood preservative, a disinfectant, and as a hardening agent in the manufacture of ceramic ware, cement, and concrete.
  • flutter tonguing — a method of sounding a wind instrument, esp the flute, with a rolling movement of the tongue
  • 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.
  • folk linguistics — speculation and popular views about language.
  • follicular phase — a stage of the menstrual cycle, from onset of menstruation to ovulation.
  • follow the crowd — copy what others are doing
  • follow-my-leader — a game in which the players must repeat the actions of the leader
  • follow-up letter — a letter sent as a follow-up to an initial letter or to a telephone call, meeting, etc
  • food intolerance — an intolerance of a specific type of food, causing an adverse reaction
  • fool around with — have casual sex
  • foot fault judge — on official on the baseline who is responsible for calling foot faults
  • foot reflexology — reflexology (def 1).
  • football special — a train service provided specially to transport football supporters to and from a match
  • for all sb cares — You can use for all I care to emphasize that it does not matter at all to you what someone does.
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