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19-letter words containing f, r, g

  • islet of langerhans — any of several masses of endocrine cells in the pancreas that secrete insulin, somatostatin, and glucagon.
  • 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.
  • kingdom of burgundy — a kingdom in E France, established in the early 6th century ad, eventually including the later duchy of Burgundy, Franche-Comté, and the Kingdom of Provence: known as the Kingdom of Arles from the 13th century
  • kingdom of lorraine — an early medieval kingdom on the Meuse, Moselle, and Rhine rivers: later a duchy
  • lagrangian function — kinetic potential.
  • landrum-griffin act — an act of Congress (1959) outlawing secondary boycotts, requiring public disclosure of the financial records of unions, and guaranteeing the use of secret ballots in union voting.
  • lay one's finger on — to indicate, identify, or locate accurately
  • leading aircraftman — the rank above aircraftman
  • left-luggage locker — a coin-operated locker in which luggage can be left
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • logical shift right — logical shift
  • love at first sight — instant romantic attraction to sb
  • magnetomotive force — a scalar quantity that is a measure of the sources of magnetic flux in a magnetic circuit. Abbreviation: mmf.
  • mail transfer agent — Message Transfer Agent
  • make a pig's ear of — to ruin disastrously
  • malice aforethought — a predetermination to commit an unlawful act without just cause or provocation (applied chiefly to cases of first-degree murder).
  • manufacturing plant — factory
  • margaret of navarre — 1492–1549, queen of Navarre 1544–49: patron of literature, author of stories, and poet.
  • modulus of rigidity — shear modulus.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • not care/give a fig — If you say that someone doesn't care a fig or doesn't give a fig about something, you are emphasizing that they think it is unimportant or that they are not interested in it.
  • not for much longer — if something will not happen for much longer, it will soon stop happening
  • nothing of the sort — not at all as described
  • orange flower water — a distilled infusion of orange blossom, used in cakes, confectionery, etc
  • order of the garter — the highest order of British knighthood, instituted by Edward III about 1348.
  • parting of the ways — When there is a parting of the ways, two or more people or groups of people stop working together or travelling together.
  • patent infringement — breach of copyright
  • perfect progressive — a verb form including the auxiliary have followed by been and a present participle, noting the continuation of an activity or event, its incompleteness or interruption, and its connection to the temporal point of reference, as in I've been waiting for over an hour, They had been talking about her before she came into the room, or In July, he will have been living here for two years.
  • performance figures — the statistics that indicate how well or badly a company or organization has performed
  • performance targets — the expected or predicted success level of an individual, company or organization
  • persian gulf states — group of Arab sheikdoms along the Persian Gulf: Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, & United Arab Emirates
  • pilgrimage of grace — a rebellion in 1536 in N England against the Reformation and Henry VIII's government
  • point the finger at — to accuse or blame
  • preferential voting — a system of voting designed to permit the voter to indicate an order of preference for the candidates on the ballot.
  • pugwash conferences — international peace conferences of scientists held regularly to discuss world problems: Nobel peace prize 1995 awarded to Joseph Rotblat (1908–2005) , one of the founders of the conferences, secretary-general (1957–73), and president (1988–97)
  • put a figure on sth — When you put a figure on an amount, you say exactly how much it is.
  • put one's finger on — any of the terminal members of the hand, especially one other than the thumb.
  • reflux oesophagitis — inflammation of the gullet caused by regurgitation of stomach acids, producing heartburn: may be associated with a hiatus hernia
  • relief organization — humanitarian group
  • resign oneself (to) — to submit or become reconciled (to); accept (something) passively
  • revival of learning — the Renaissance in its relation to learning, especially in literature (Revival of Literature or Revival of Letters)
  • right-eyed flounder — any of several flatfishes of the family Pleuronectidae, having both eyes on the right side of the head.
  • ring-spinning frame — a machine containing the ring, traveler, and bobbin used in spinning yarn.
  • savings certificate — a certificate of deposit for a specific sum of money in a savings account, especially a deposit for a fixed term at a specified interest rate.
  • sea floor spreading — a process in which new ocean floor is created as molten material from the earth's mantle rises in margins between plates or ridges and spreads out.
  • sea-floor spreading — a process in which new ocean floor is created as molten material from the earth's mantle rises in margins between plates or ridges and spreads out.
  • self-aggrandizement — increase of one's own power, wealth, etc., usually aggressively.
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