19-letter words containing f, o, n

land of opportunity — Arkansas (used as a nickname).
languages of choice — C and Lisp. Nearly every hacker knows one of these, and most good ones are fluent in both. Smalltalk and Prolog are also popular in small but influential communities. There is also a rapidly dwindling category of older hackers with Fortran, or even assembler, as their language of choice. They often prefer to be known as Real Programmers, and other hackers consider them a bit odd (see "The Story of Mel"). Assembler is generally no longer considered interesting or appropriate for anything but HLL implementation, glue, and a few time-critical and hardware-specific uses in systems programs. Fortran occupies a shrinking niche in scientific programming. Most hackers tend to frown on languages like Pascal and Ada, which don't give them the near-total freedom considered necessary for hacking (see bondage-and-discipline language), and to regard everything even remotely connected with COBOL or other traditional card walloper languages as a total and unmitigated loss.
lay one's finger on — to indicate, identify, or locate accurately
leading coefficient — the coefficient of the term of highest degree in a given polynomial. 5 is the leading coefficient in 5 x 3 + 3 x 2 − 2 x + 1.
letters of credence — credentials issued to a diplomat or other governmental representative for presentation to the country to which he or she is sent.
level of attainment — one of ten groupings, each with its own attainment criteria based on pupil age and ability, within which a pupil is assessed
library of congress — one of the major library collections in the world, located in Washington, D.C., and functioning in some ways as the national library of the U.S. although not officially designated as such: established by Congress in 1800 for service to its members, but now also serving government agencies, other libraries, and the public.
lift the curtain on — to begin
lift up one's voice — to speak out loudly
limit of resolution — the capacity of an optical system to resolve point objects as separate images.
line of demarcation — a separation between things deemed to be distinct
line-of-battle ship — ship of the line.
live one's own life — If you live your own life, you live in the way that you want to and accept responsibility for your actions and decisions, without other people's advice or interference.
load-bearing printf — (programming, humour) The kind of bug present in a program which works correctly when producing debug output but fails when the debugging is turned off. The expression combines load-bearing wall and printf as used in debugging by printf.
look (like) oneself — to appear to be in normal health, spirits, etc.
lose in the shuffle — to leave out or disregard in the confusion of things
loss-of-containment — Loss-of-containment happens when a fluid which is usually contained somewhere escapes from that place.
low insertion force — (hardware) (LIF) PGA/SPGA sockets with no handle. The integrated circuit is simply pushed into the socket, and levered out to remove. Most motherboard processor sockets are now ZIF rather than LIF.
luminous efficiency — the perceived brightness of light as a ratio of the total luminous flux to total radiant flux of the source; a measure of brightness obtained by dividing the source's luminous flux by the consumption of its energy.
lymphoproliferation — (medicine) the excessive production of lymphocytes.
lyon office of arms — Heralds' Office.
magnetomotive force — a scalar quantity that is a measure of the sources of magnetic flux in a magnetic circuit. Abbreviation: mmf.
make oneself scarce — insufficient to satisfy the need or demand; not abundant: Meat and butter were scarce during the war.
maratha confederacy — a loose league of states in central and western India, c1750–1818.
margaret of navarre — 1492–1549, queen of Navarre 1544–49: patron of literature, author of stories, and poet.
mary wollstonecraft — Mary (Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) 1759–97, English author and feminist (mother of Mary Shelley).
master of foxhounds — the person responsible for the conduct of a fox hunt and to whom all members of the hunt and its staff are responsible. Abbreviation: M.F.H.
means of production — resources: equipment, workers
membership function — fuzzy subset
menominee whitefish — round whitefish.
midafternoon prayer — the fifth of the seven canonical hours; none
mine of information — source of great knowledge
minimum iron fabric — cloth used to make clothes that require little ironing
ministry of defence — the government department responsible for the country's military measures or resources
more often than not — usually
most favored nation — a nation to which privileges of trade are extended under a government policy of giving the same privileges to all nations that are given to any one of them, sometimes depending on whether certain conditions, as of reciprocity, are met
most-favored-nation — of or relating to the status, treatment, terms, etc., that are embodied in or conferred by a most-favored-nation clause.
mother-of-thousands — strawberry geranium.
moving spirit/force — The moving spirit or moving force behind something is the person or thing that caused it to start and to keep going, or that influenced people to take part in it.
municipal bond fund — a mutual fund that invests in municipal bonds.
mutual fund company — a company that sells and manages mutual funds
nasty piece of work — malicious person
negation by failure — An extralogical feature of Prolog and other logic programming languages in which failure of unification is treated as establishing the negation of a relation. For example, if Ronald Reagan is not in our database and we asked if he was an American, Prolog would answer "no".
nerve growth factor — a protein that promotes the growth, organization, and maintenance of sympathetic and some sensory nerve cells. Abbreviation: NGF.
network file system — (networking, operating system) (NFS) A protocol developed by Sun Microsystems, and defined in RFC 1094, which allows a computer to access files over a network as if they were on its local disks. This protocol has been incorporated in products by more than two hundred companies, and is now a de facto standard. NFS is implemented using a connectionless protocol (UDP) in order to make it stateless. See Nightmare File System, WebNFS.
non-confidentiality — spoken, written, acted on, etc., in strict privacy or secrecy; secret: a confidential remark.
non-confrontational — tending toward or ready for confrontation: They came to the meeting with a confrontational attitude.
non-transferability — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
nonforfeiture value — any benefit, as cash or other form of insurance, available to a life-insurance policyholder who discontinues premium payments on the policy.
nordrhein-westfalen — German name of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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