16-letter words containing f, o, i, e, g

friction gearing — wheels or disks transmitting power by means of frictional contact.
friction welding — a method of welding thermoplastics or metals by the heat generated by rubbing the members to be joined against each other under pressure.
fringed polygala — a North American milkwort, Polygala paucifolia, having flowers with purplish-pink, winglike petals and a fringed tube.
gas blowoff line — A gas blowoff line is a safety device to control sudden increases in pressure.
gas liquefaction — Gas liquefaction is the process of refrigerating a gas to a temperature that is below its critical temperature in order to form a liquid.
gazetted officer — (in India) a senior official whose appointment is published in the government gazette
gender-profiling — the use of personal characteristics or behavior patterns to make generalizations about a person, as in gender profiling.
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.
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.
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.
high-performance — A high-performance car or other product goes very fast or does a lot.
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
huffman encoding — Huffman coding
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.
in the region of — You say in the region of to indicate that an amount that you are stating is approximate.
johnny foreigner — a person from a country other than those which make up the United Kingdom
junior flyweight — a boxer weighing up to 108 pounds (48.6 kg), between minimumweight and flyweight.
king of the hill — a game in which each player attempts to climb to the top of some point, as a mound of earth, and to prevent all others from pushing or pulling him or her off the top.
kingdom of arles — a kingdom in SE France which had dissolved by 1378: known as the Kingdom of Burgundy until about 1200
legion of honour — an order for civil or military merit instituted by Napoleon in France in 1802
lignin sulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
lissajous figure — the series of plane curves traced by an object executing two mutually perpendicular harmonic motions.
margin of safety — therapeutic index.
milk of magnesia — a milky white suspension in water of magnesium hydroxide, Mg (OH) 2 , used as an antacid or laxative.
montgomery clift — Montgomery, 1920–66, U.S. actor.
motoring offence — a crime committed which concerns driving
no hard feelings — If you say ' no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
not the foggiest — no idea whatsoever
of a certain age — of an unspecified age, but no longer young
open-die forging — Open-die forging is a forging process in which the flow of metal is not kept completely in the die.
operating profit — the profit of a company, etc, after it deducts its operating costs or the costs necessary to conduct the business
pacific sturgeon — a dark gray sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus, inhabiting marine and fresh waters along the northwestern coast of North America, valued as a food and sport fish.
peregrine falcon — a globally distributed falcon, Falco peregrinus, much used in falconry because of its swift flight: several subspecies are endangered.
phosphor fatigue — screen saver
refrigerator car — a freight car having either an ice chest or machinery for chilling perishables and sometimes having a heating unit to keep perishables from freezing.
registration fee — a fee paid to register, enrol or sign up for (a course, etc)
regius professor — Crown-appointed holder of a university chair
releasing factor — a substance usually of hypothalamic origin that triggers the release of a particular hormone from an endocrine gland.
right about face — Military. a command, given to a soldier or soldiers at attention, to turn the body about toward the right so as to face in the opposite direction. the act of so turning in a prescribed military manner.
robin goodfellow — Puck (def 1).
scheme of things — Someone's scheme of things is the way in which they think that things in their life should be organized.
seat of learning — People sometimes refer to a university or a similar institution as a seat of learning.
self-degradation — the act of degrading.
self-denigration — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.

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