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16-letter words containing g, a, f, t, o

  • gravity platform — (in the oil industry) a drilling platform that rests directly on the sea bed and is kept in position by its own weight; it is usually made of reinforced concrete
  • gulf of martaban — an inlet of the Bay of Bengal in Myanmar
  • gulf of thailand — an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina
  • inflationary gap — the excess of total spending in an economy over the value, at current prices, of the output it can produce
  • isoplastic graft — syngraft.
  • knights of labor — a secret workingmen's organization formed in 1869 to defend the interests of labor.
  • knights of malta — the order of Hospitalers.
  • lignin sulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
  • make a go of sth — If you say that someone is making a go of something such as a business or relationship, you mean that they are having some success with it.
  • margin of safety — therapeutic index.
  • misconfiguration — An incorrect or inappropriate configuration.
  • name of the game — the essential element, consideration, or ultimate purpose; key: Profit is the name of the game in business.
  • narcotrafficking — the buying and selling of illegal drugs.
  • nonmanufacturing — (economics) Outside of the manufacturing sector.
  • of a certain age — of an unspecified age, but no longer young
  • on a war footing — If a country or armed force is on a war footing, it is ready to fight a war.
  • operating profit — the profit of a company, etc, after it deducts its operating costs or the costs necessary to conduct the business
  • 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.
  • phosphor fatigue — screen saver
  • play off against — If you play people off against each other, you make them compete or argue, so that you gain some advantage.
  • point of sailing — the bearing of a sailing vessel, considered with relation to the direction of the wind.
  • proof of postage — a document, such as a receipt, etc, that proves that you have posted or mailed something
  • put a foot wrong — to make a mistake
  • 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.
  • sawn-off shotgun — A sawn-off shotgun is a shotgun on which the barrel has been cut short. Guns like this are often used by criminals because they can be easily hidden.
  • 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-designation — a name taken for oneself or one's own people
  • self-indignation — strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base; righteous anger.
  • 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-subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
  • soft brown sugar — a type of moist sugar made by coating white sugar with dark molasses
  • soft pornography — soft-core pornography.
  • software package — bundle of files to execute computer program
  • 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
  • take (to) flight — to run away; flee
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • toing and froing — going back and forth
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