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16-letter words containing f, t, s

  • composite family — the large and varied plant family Compositae (or Asteraceae), typified by herbaceous plants having alternate, opposite, or whorled leaves and a whorl of bracts surrounding the flower heads, which are usually composed of a disk containing tiny petalless flowers and a ray of petals extending from the flowers at the rim of the disk, some flower heads being composed only of a disk or a ray and some plants having clusters of flower heads, and including the aster, daisy, dandelion, goldenrod, marigold, ragweed, sunflower, thistle, and zinnia.
  • confederationism — The advocacy of confederation as a means of government.
  • confederationist — A supporter of confederation.
  • confidentialness — The state or quality of being confidential.
  • configurationism — Gestalt psychology
  • conflict of laws — dissimilarity or discrepancy between the laws of different legal orders, such as states or nations, with regard to the applicable legal rules and principles in a matter that each legal order wishes to regulate.
  • confrontationist — a person who confronts opposition, especially aggressively.
  • congo free state — a former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • constant folding — (compiler)   A compiler optimisation technique where constant subexpressions are evaluated at compile time. This is usually only applied to built-in numerical and boolean operators whereas partial evaluation is more general in that expressions involving user-defined functions may also be evaluated at compile time.
  • contour feathers — feathers that form the surface plumage of a bird and determine the outer contour, including the wing and tail feathers
  • cost-effectively — in a cost-effective way; efficiently
  • cost-efficiently — cost-effective.
  • council of state — a council that deliberates on high-level policies of a government.
  • counteroffensive — a series of attacks by a defending force against an attacking enemy
  • course of action — a way of proceeding
  • court of appeals — A Court of Appeals is a court which deals with appeals against legal judgments.
  • court of justice — a legal court
  • court of session — the supreme civil court in Scotland
  • craftspersonship — The body of activities, skills, techniques, knowledge, and expertise pertinent to (a) particular craft(s).
  • cream puff paste — paste made with eggs, water or milk, butter, and flour, used in making éclairs, profiteroles, and other kinds of puffs.
  • customer profile — a description or analysis of a typical or ideal customer for one's business
  • cut of one's jib — one's appearance or way of dressing
  • dead-man's float — a prone floating position, used especially by beginning swimmers, with face downward, legs extended backward, and arms stretched forward.
  • dead-smooth file — the smoothest grade of file commonly used
  • deboursification — (jargon)   Removal of irrelevant newsgroups from the Newsgroups header of a followup. The term applies particularly to the removal of frivolous groups added by one of the Kooks. See also: sneck.
  • debt forgiveness — the action or process of forgiving people their debts
  • declassification — to remove the classification from (information, a document, etc.) that restricts access in terms of secrecy, confidentiality, etc. Compare classification (def 5).
  • deficit spending — Deficit spending is an economic policy in which a government spends more money raised by borrowing than it receives in revenue.
  • degrees of frost — When someone says that there are a particular number of degrees of frost they mean that the temperature is that number of degrees below freezing point.
  • dentist's office — A dentist's office is the room or house where a dentist works.
  • depart this life — to die
  • descent function — If a recursive function is of the form f x = ... f (d x) ... then d is known as the descent function.
  • dimethyl sulfate — a colorless or yellow, slightly water-soluble, poisonous liquid, (CH 3) 2 SO 2 , used chiefly in organic synthesis.
  • disfranchisement — to deprive (a person) of a right of citizenship, as of the right to vote.
  • disqualification — an act or instance of disqualifying.
  • dissatisfactions — Plural form of dissatisfaction.
  • distrito federal — Federal District. Abbreviation: D.F.
  • diversifications — Plural form of diversification.
  • do-it-yourselfer — an advocate or enthusiast of do-it-yourself
  • drift transistor — a transistor in which the impurity concentration in the base increases from the collector-base junction to the emitter-base junction, producing a resistivity gradient that greatly increases its high-frequency response
  • dysfunctionality — (uncountable) The condition of being dysfunctional.
  • east coast fever — a disease of cattle, endemic in east and central Africa, caused by a parasite, Theileria parva, that is carried by ticks
  • electronic flash — Photography
  • exemplifications — Plural form of exemplification.
  • exhaust manifold — An exhaust manifold is a heat-resistant tube that connects an engine to an exhaust pipe.
  • external affairs — (formerly) the Canadian federal Foreign Affairs department
  • extrinsic factor — vitamin B12
  • factor of safety — the ratio of the maximum stress that a structural part or other piece of material can withstand to the maximum stress estimated for it in the use for which it is designed.
  • fahrenheit scale — Gabriel Daniel [German gah-bree-el dah-nee-el] /German ˈgɑ briˌɛl ˈdɑ niˌɛl/ (Show IPA), 1686–1736, German physicist: devised a temperature scale and introduced the use of mercury in thermometers.
  • faintheartedness — The quality or state of being fainthearted.
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