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16-letter words containing f, o, r, m

  • 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.
  • high-performance — A high-performance car or other product goes very fast or does a lot.
  • homme d'affaires — a businessman.
  • 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.
  • hyper-conformity — action in accord with prevailing social standards, attitudes, practices, etc.
  • imperfect flower — a unisexual flower with only stamens or only pistils
  • infant mortality — death during infancy
  • information desk — helpdesk, information point
  • information pack — a set of leaflets giving information about something
  • informed consent — a patient's consent to a medical or surgical procedure or to participation in a clinical study after being properly advised of the relevant medical facts and the risks involved.
  • joachim of fiore — ?1132–1202 ad, Italian mystic and philosopher, best known for teaching that history can be divided into three ages, those of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
  • job's comforters — a person who unwittingly or maliciously depresses or discourages someone while attempting to be consoling.
  • kekule's formula — the structural formula of benzene represented as a hexagonal ring with alternate single and double bonds between the carbon atoms.
  • 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
  • law of parsimony — a principle according to which an explanation of a thing or event is made with the fewest possible assumptions.
  • leasehold reform — reform of the law relating to leasehold property
  • letter of marque — license or commission granted by a state to a private citizen to capture and confiscate the merchant ships of another nation.
  • lithium fluoride — a fine, white, slightly water-soluble powder, LiF, used chiefly in the manufacture of ceramics.
  • maid of all work — a maid who does all types of housework
  • make a break for — run towards
  • make a pitch for — to give verbal support to
  • make a virtue of — If you make a virtue of something, you pretend that you did it because you chose to, although in fact you did it because you had to.
  • mallowpuff māori — a Māori who is considered to behave like a white person
  • man of few words — man who speaks very little
  • man of the world — a man who is widely experienced in the ways of the world and people; an urbane, sophisticated man.
  • man-of-the-earth — a morning glory, Ipomoea pandurata, of eastern North America, having white flowers and a very large, tuberous root.
  • manhood suffrage — the right of adult male citizens to vote
  • margin of safety — therapeutic index.
  • marsh cinquefoil — a variety of cinquefoil, Potentilla palustris, that grows in marshy areas
  • matron of honour — a married woman serving as chief attendant to a bride
  • matter of course — an event or result that is natural or inevitable
  • matter of record — a fact or statement that appears on the record of a court and that can be proved or established by producing such record.
  • matter-of-course — occurring or proceeding in or as if in the logical, natural, or customary course of things; expected or inevitable.
  • matter-of-factly — adhering strictly to fact; not imaginative; prosaic; dry; commonplace: a matter-of-fact account of the political rally.
  • matthew of paris — c1200–59, English chronicler.
  • medal of bravery — a Canadian award for courage
  • medal of freedom — a former name of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
  • metallofullerene — (chemistry) A fullerene containing an enclosed metal atom.
  • micro-microfarad — picofarad. Symbol: μμF.
  • microfilm reader — a machine that displays on a screen a magnified image of a microfilm
  • microsoft access — 1.   (database)   A relational database running under Microsoft Windows. Data is stored as a number of "tables", e.g. "Stock". Each table consists of a number of "records" (e.g. for different items) and each record contains a number of "fields", e.g. "Product code", "Supplier", "Quantity in stock". Access allows the user to create "forms" and "reports". A form shows one record in a user-designed format and allows the user to step through records one at a time. A report shows selected records in a user-designed format, possibly grouped into sections with different kinds of total (including sum, minimum, maximum, average). There are also facilities to use links ("joins") between tables which share a common field and to filter records according to certain criteria or search for particular field values. Version: 2 (date?). 2.   (communications)   A communications program from Microsoft, meant to compete with ProComm and other programs. It sucked and was dropped. Years later they reused the name for their database.
  • microsoft office — (product)   Microsoft's bundles of productivity tools including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Front Page, Microsoft Team Manager, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Schedule+, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Small Business Financial Manager, Automap Streets Plus. Editions of Office include Microsoft Office Professional Edition, Microsoft Office Standard Edition, Microsoft Office Small Business Edition, Microsoft Office Developer Edition. Different editions contain different subsets of the above applications. Current version, as of 2004-08-30: Office 2003.
  • minerva software — A company producing software for the Acorn Archimedes.
  • miraculous fruit — miracle fruit.
  • misconfiguration — An incorrect or inappropriate configuration.
  • modacrylic fiber — any of various synthetic copolymer textile fibers, as Dynel, containing less than 85 percent but more than 35 percent of acrylonitrile.
  • modified-release — denoting a formulation of a medicinal drug taken orally that releases the active ingredients over several hours, in order to maintain a relatively constant plasma concentration of the drug
  • mohammed of ghor — (Mu'izz-ad-din) died 1206, Muslim Sultan of Ghazni 1173–1206: established Muslim power in India.
  • montgomery clift — Montgomery, 1920–66, U.S. actor.
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