19-letter words containing f, o, u, n, t

focal-plane shutter — a camera shutter situated directly in front of the film.
follow-up interview — a second interview following an initial interview
for crying out loud — exasperation
forensic accountant — an accountant who specializes in applying accountancy skills to the purposes of the law
foundation subjects — the subjects studied as part of the National Curriculum, including the compulsory core subjects
fractional currency — coins or paper money of a smaller denomination than the basic monetary unit.
frameshift mutation — a mutation caused by frameshift.
freeze-frame button — a control button on a remote control device, used to stop a moving image to view it as a still
freezing injunction — an order enabling the court to freeze the assets of a defendant, esp to prevent him or her taking them abroad
friend of the court — amicus curiae.
functional analysis — the branch of mathematics that deals with the theory of vector spaces and linear functionals.
functional calculus — the branch of symbolic logic that includes the sentential calculus and that deals with sentential functions and quantifiers and with logical relations between sentences containing quantifiers.
functional currency — Functional currency is the main currency used by a business.
functional database — (database, language) A database which uses a functional language as its query language. Databases would seem to be an inappropriate application for functional languages since, a purely functional language would have to return a new copy of the entire database every time (part of) it was updated. To be practically scalable, the update mechanism must clearly be destructive rather than functional; however it is quite feasible for the query language to be purely functional so long as the database is considered as an argument. One approach to the update problem would use a monad to encapsulate database access and ensure it was single threaded. Alternative approaches have been suggested by Trinder, who suggests non-destructive updating with shared data structures, and Sutton who uses a variant of a Phil Wadler's linear type system. There are two main classes of functional database languages. The first is based upon Backus' FP language, of which FQL is probably the best known example. Adaplan is a more recent language which falls into this category. More recently, people have been working on languages which are syntactically very similar to modern functional programming languages, but which also provide all of the features of a database language, e.g. bulk data structures which can be incrementally updated, type systems which can be incrementally updated, and all data persisting in a database. Examples are PFL [Poulovassilis&Small, VLDB-91], and Machiavelli [Ohori et al, ACM SIGMOD Conference, 1998].
functional language — (language) A language that supports and encourages functional programming.
functional medicine — individualized medical care that recognizes the interactions between genetic and environmental factors and between the body's interconnected systems.
go out of one's way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
greenhouse whitefly — See under whitefly.
gulf of carpentaria — a shallow inlet of the Arafura Sea, in N Australia between Arnhem Land and Cape York Peninsula
gulf of tehuantepec — an inlet of the Pacific on the south coast of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in S Mexico
heat of sublimation — the heat absorbed by one gram or unit mass of a substance in the process of changing, at a constant temperature and pressure, from a solid to a gaseous state. Compare sublime (def 10).
hexafluoroplatinate — (chemistry) The univalent anion PtF6- prepared by reacting platinum hexafluoride with certain metals or other elements.
house of correction — a place for the confinement and reform of persons convicted of minor offenses and not regarded as confirmed criminals.
hyperbolic function — a function of an angle expressed as a relationship between the distances from a point on a hyperbola to the origin and to the coordinate axes, as hyperbolic sine or hyperbolic cosine: often expressed as combinations of exponential functions.
in definite pronoun — a pronoun, as English some, any, somebody, that leaves unspecified the identity of its referent.
in the line of duty — If you do something or if it happens to you in the line of duty, you do it or it happens as part of your regular work or as a result of it.
in tune/out of tune — A person or musical instrument that is in tune produces exactly the right notes. A person or musical instrument that is out of tune does not produce exactly the right notes.
incomplete fracture — a fracture extending partly across the bone.
isthmus of san blas — the narrowest part of the Isthmus of Panama. Width: about 50 km (30 miles)
jacques montgolfier — Jacques Étienne [zhahk ey-tyen] /ʒɑk eɪˈtyɛn/ (Show IPA), 1745–99, and his brother Joseph Michel [zhaw-zef mee-shel] /ʒɔˈzɛf miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA) 1740–1810, French aeronauts: inventors of the first practical balloon 1783.
keep an eye out for — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
knights of columbus — an international fraternal and benevolent organization of Roman Catholic men, founded in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1882.
lagrangian function — kinetic potential.
land of opportunity — Arkansas (used as a nickname).
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.
lose in the shuffle — to leave out or disregard in the confusion of things
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
mother-of-thousands — strawberry geranium.
mutual fund company — a company that sells and manages mutual funds
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".
nonforfeiture value — any benefit, as cash or other form of insurance, available to a life-insurance policyholder who discontinues premium payments on the policy.
not for much longer — if something will not happen for much longer, it will soon stop happening
open-hearth furnace — a process of steelmaking in which the charge is laid in a furnace (open-hearth furnace) on a shallow hearth and heated directly by burning gas as well as radiatively by the furnace walls.
oriental fruit moth — a moth, Grapholitha molesta, introduced into the U.S. from Asia, the larvae of which infest and feed on the twigs and fruits of peach, plum, and related trees.
out of the ordinary — of no special quality or interest; commonplace; unexceptional: One novel is brilliant, the other is decidedly ordinary; an ordinary person.
out of the question — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.

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