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17-letter words containing f, o, r, t, m

  • acetylformic acid — pyruvic acid.
  • act of parliament — a law that has been passed by both of the UK Houses of Parliament and has received royal assent
  • act of uniformity — any of the three statutes (1549, 1559, 1662) regulating public worship services in the Anglican Church, especially the act of 1662 requiring the use of the Book of Common Prayer.
  • american football — American football is a game similar to rugby that is played by two teams of eleven players using an oval-shaped ball. Players try to score points by carrying the ball to their opponents' end of the field, or by kicking it over a bar fixed between two posts.
  • anti-inflammatory — reducing inflammation
  • antiferromagnetic — noting or pertaining to a substance in which, at sufficiently low temperatures, the magnetic moments of adjacent atoms point in opposite directions.
  • armaments factory — a factory for producing armaments
  • bathroom fittings — plumbing fixtures or accessories suitable for use in a bathroom
  • beat the drum for — to attempt to arouse interest in
  • before one's time — prematurely
  • biotransformation — the metabolizing of some substance, esp. a drug, in the body
  • board of estimate — a special organ of a municipal government, as of New York City, composed of the mayor, the president of the city council, and the controller, and charged with approving the city's budget and fiscal matters.
  • bureau of customs — former name of the United States Customs Service.
  • california nutmeg — a tall, pungently aromatic California evergreen tree, Torreya californica, of the yew family, having a fissured, gray-brown bark and small, purple-streaked, green fruit.
  • capital formation — the net additions to a capital stock in an accounting period
  • coin of the realm — legal tender.
  • coliform bacteria — a large group of bacteria inhabiting the intestinal tract of humans and animals that may cause disease and whose presence in water is an indicator of faecal pollution
  • common of turbary — (in England) the legal right to cut peat for fuel on a common
  • complete fracture — a bone fracture in which the bone is split completely across.
  • compound fraction — complex fraction
  • compound fracture — A compound fracture is a fracture in which the broken bone sticks through the skin.
  • computer confetti — (jargon)   (Or "chad") A common term for punched-card chad, which, however, does not make good confetti, as the pieces are stiff and have sharp corners that could injure the eyes.
  • confirmation-bias — the tendency to process and analyze information in such a way that it supports one’s preexisting ideas and convictions: Confirmation bias is a major issue when we get all our news from social media sites. Unfortunately, their experimental method was proven invalid due to confirmation bias.
  • contempt of court — Contempt of court is the criminal offence of disobeying an instruction from a judge or a court of law.
  • contraflow system — a system of traffic lanes whose normal direction is reversed to allow traffic to move during repairs or an accident
  • copious free time — (jargon)   (Apple; originally from the introduction to Tom Lehrer's song "It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier") Used ironically to indicate the speaker's lack of the quantity in question; a mythical schedule slot for accomplishing tasks held to be unlikely or impossible. Sometimes used to indicate that the speaker is interested in accomplishing the task, but believes that the opportunity will not arise. "I'll implement the automatic layout stuff in my copious free time." The phrase is also used for time reserved for bogus or otherwise idiotic tasks, such as implementation of bad chrome, or the stroking of suits. "I'll get back to him on that feature in my copious free time."
  • cream of the crop — the best of a group
  • creature comforts — Creature comforts are the things that you need to feel comfortable in a place, for example good food and modern equipment.
  • data flow diagram — (programming)   A graphical notation used to describe how data flows between processes in a system. Data flow diagrams are an important tool of most structured analysis techniques.
  • defamiliarisation — (arts) The representation of objects anew, in a way that we do not recognize, or that changes our reading of them.
  • defamiliarization — Art, Literature. a theory and technique, originating in the early 20th century, in which an artistic or literary work presents familiar objects or situations in an unfamiliar way, prolonging the perceptive process and allowing for a fresh perspective.
  • dimethylformamide — a colourless liquid widely used as a solvent and sometimes as a catalyst. Formula: (CH3)2NCHO
  • director of music — a person in charge of musical training and performance at an institution such as a college, especially the head bandmaster of a military band
  • drilling platform — a structure, either fixed to the sea bed or mobile, which supports the machinery and equipment (the drilling rig), together with the stores, required for digging an offshore oil well
  • enforcement order — an order by a court to force a person or organization to comply with a regulation or law
  • enrolment figures — the numbers of people enrolling at an institution, on a course, etc
  • error of judgment — a wrong or bad decision
  • exfoliating cream — a granular cosmetic preparation that removes dead cells from the skin's surface
  • far be it from me — I would not presume; on no account
  • farming community — a community where farming is the main industry
  • fellow countryman — sb of same nationality
  • fermentation lock — a valve placed on the top of bottles of fermenting wine to allow bubbles to escape
  • ferroelectric ram — Ferroelectric Random Access Memory
  • fifth normal form — database normalisation
  • first commandment — “Thou shalt have no other gods before me”: first of the Ten Commandments.
  • first normal form — database normalisation
  • first performance — the first time that a play or concert is performed
  • fitness programme — a plan to help someone improve their health and physical condition
  • footmen's gallery — the rearmost section of seats in the balcony of an English theater, especially in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
  • for the most part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.

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