16-letter words containing f, r, e, g, o, t
- phosphor fatigue — screen saver
- proof of postage — a document, such as a receipt, etc, that proves that you have posted or mailed something
- rate of exchange — exchange rate.
- 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)
- 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.
- 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.
- self-integration — an act or instance of combining into an integral whole.
- self-propagating — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- self-sovereignty — the quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority.
- software package — bundle of files to execute computer program
- something fierce — desperately, intensely
- spreading factor — a substance, as hyaluronidase, that promotes the diffusion of a material through body tissues
- staffing officer — someone who recruits, hires, and ensures the interests of staff and employees in an organization
- stocking stuffer — a small, usually inexpensive gift that is placed with others in a Christmas stocking.
- take a page from — to follow the example of; imitate
- take for granted — to bestow or confer, especially by a formal act: to grant a charter.
- teleconferencing — a business meeting, educational session, etc., conducted among participants in different locations via telecommunications equipment. Compare videoconference.
- teutoburg forest — region of low, forested mountains, mostly in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany: highest point, c. 1,500 ft (457 m)
- the foreign-born — immigrants of a country
- the gang of four — a radical faction within the Chinese Communist Party that emerged as a political force in the spring of 1976 and was suppressed later that year. Its members, Zhang Chunqiao, Wang Hongwen, Yao Wenyuan, and Jiang Qing, were tried and imprisoned (1981)
- tierra del fuego — a group of islands at the S tip of South America, separated from the mainland by the Strait of Magellan: jointly owned by Argentina and Chile; boundary disputed. 27,476 sq. mi. (71,165 sq. km).
- to lift a finger — If you say that a person does not lift a finger or raise a finger to do something, especially to help someone, you are critical of them because they do nothing.
- top-of-the-range — de luxe, expensive
- training officer — a person whose job is to teach people the skills they need for a particular field or profession
- transfer molding — a method of molding thermosetting plastic in which the plastic enters a closed mold from an adjoining chamber in which it has been softened.
- velcro fastening — a fastening made of Velcro