16-letter words containing f, r, o, n, t, a

non-manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
non-transferable — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
nonmanufacturing — (economics) Outside of the manufacturing sector.
nonproliferation — the action or practice of curbing or controlling an excessive, rapid spread: nonproliferation of nuclear weapons.
north battleford — a city in W central Saskatchewan, in central Canada.
north plainfield — a city in NE New Jersey.
of a certain age — of an unspecified age, but no longer young
of it own accord — If something happens of its own accord, it seems to happen by itself, without anyone making it happen.
of the nature of — having the essential character of; like
on a war footing — If a country or armed force is on a war footing, it is ready to fight a war.
one for the road — a long, narrow stretch with a smoothed or paved surface, made for traveling by motor vehicle, carriage, etc., between two or more points; street or highway.
operating profit — the profit of a company, etc, after it deducts its operating costs or the costs necessary to conduct the business
ordnance factory — a factory that makes military weapons and ammunition
outsmart oneself — to have one's efforts at cunning or cleverness result in one's own disadvantage
pacific sturgeon — a dark gray sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus, inhabiting marine and fresh waters along the northwestern coast of North America, valued as a food and sport fish.
packing fraction — Physics. a measure of the stability of an atomic nucleus, equal to 10 4 multiplied by the mass defect and divided by the mass number.
parallel fortran — (language) (Pfortran) Extensions to Fortran by Ridgway Scott <[email protected]> of Houston University. Pfortran provides a shared memory SIMD model on message passing computers. It was under development in 1994.
partial fraction — one of the fractions into which a given fraction can be resolved, the sum of such simpler fractions being equal to the given fraction: Partial fractions of 5/(x2−x) are 5/(x−1) and −5/x.
partial function — A function which is not defined for all arguments of its input type. E.g. f(x) = 1/x if x /= 0. The opposite of a total function. In denotational semantics, a partial function f : D -> C may be represented as a total function ft : D' -> lift(C) where D' is a superset of D and ft x = f x if x in D ft x = bottom otherwise where lift(C) = C U bottom. Bottom (LaTeX \perp) denotes "undefined".
parts of lindsey — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
performance test — a test requiring little or no use of language, the test materials being designed to elicit manual or behavioral responses rather than verbal ones.
personal effects — belongings
platform-balance — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
post-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
prespecification — the act of specifying.
put a foot wrong — to make a mistake
radius of action — the maximum distance that a ship, aircraft, or land vehicle can travel from its base and return without refuelling
ramen profitable — If a startup business is ramen profitable, it is barely profitable, just enough to allow the founder to live on the cheapest diet.
rate of exchange — exchange rate.
rational fortran — (language) (RATFOR) Brian Kernighan's Fortran preprocessor that allows programming with C-like control flow. RATFOR is mainly of historical significance. A translator from Ratfor to Fortran IV was posted to comp.sources.Unix volume 13.
reasons of state — political justifications for an immoral act
reclassification — categorization in a different way
reflection plane — a plane through a crystal that divides the crystal into two halves that are mirror images of each other.
registration fee — a fee paid to register, enrol or sign up for (a course, etc)
reidentification — an act or instance of identifying; the state of being identified.
releasing factor — a substance usually of hypothalamic origin that triggers the release of a particular hormone from an endocrine gland.
romantic fiction — a genre of fiction focused on romantic love
root normal form — (RNF) Head Normal Form in graph rewriting.
rotation of axes — a process of replacing the axes in a Cartesian coordinate system with a new set of axes making a specified angle with and having the same origin as the original axes.
saccharification — to convert (starch) into sugar.
seat of learning — People sometimes refer to a university or a similar institution as a seat of learning.
self-affirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
self-approbation — approval; commendation.
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-deprecation — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
self-deprivation — the act of depriving.
self-elaboration — an act or instance of elaborating.
self-explanatory — explaining itself; needing no explanation; obvious.
self-integration — an act or instance of combining into an integral whole.

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