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16-letter words containing g, e, t, i

  • feeping creature — [feeping creaturism] An unnecessary feature; a bit of chrome that, in the speaker's judgment, is the camel's nose for a whole horde of new features.
  • feulgen reaction — a reaction in which an aldehyde combines with a modified Schiff's reagent to produce a purplish compound: used especially to test for the presence of DNA
  • fifth-generation — denoting developments in computer design to produce machines with artificial intelligence
  • filter cigarette — a cigarette with a filter tip
  • fingertip search — When the police carry out a fingertip search of a place, they examine it for evidence in a very detailed way.
  • fire regulations — rules intended to make sure that people and property stay safe in the event of a fire
  • first generation — 1.   (architecture)   first generation computer. 2.   (language)   first generation language.
  • first-generation — being the first generation of a family to be born in a particular country.
  • fit like a glove — fit perfectly
  • flabbergastation — (colloquial) Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted.
  • flabbergastingly — Surprisingly, astonishingly or amazingly.
  • flibbertigibbets — Plural form of flibbertigibbet.
  • flibbertigibbety — Like a flibbertigibbet; flighty; scatterbrained.
  • flight attendant — an airline employee who serves meals, attends to passengers' comfort, etc., during a flight.
  • flutter tonguing — a method of sounding a wind instrument, esp the flute, with a rolling movement of the tongue
  • fore and aft rig — a sail set in a line from one end the other of a vessel rather than in a square
  • fore-and-aft rig — a rig in which the principal sails are fore-and-aft.
  • foreign minister — (in countries other than the U.S.) a cabinet minister who conducts and supervises foreign and diplomatic relations with other states. Also called, especially British, foreign secretary. Compare secretary of state (def 1).
  • foreign national — citizen of another country
  • forked lightning — Forked lightning is lightning that divides into two or more parts near the ground.
  • forwarding agent — freight forwarder.
  • four-masted brig — jackass bark (def 2).
  • freezing mixture — a mixture of two substances, usually salt and ice, to give a temperature below 0°C
  • freight terminal — (on a rail network) a place where freight is stored while awaiting onward transport
  • friction gearing — wheels or disks transmitting power by means of frictional contact.
  • friction welding — a method of welding thermoplastics or metals by the heat generated by rubbing the members to be joined against each other under pressure.
  • frigate mackerel — a small, blue-green, black-striped fish, Auxis thazard, abundant in tropical seas, having dark, oily flesh that is sometimes used as food.
  • galactic cluster — a comparatively young, irregularly shaped group of stars, often numbering up to several hundred, and held together by mutual gravitation; usually found along the central plane of the Milky Way and other galaxies.
  • galactic equator — the great circle on the celestial sphere that is equidistant from the galactic poles, being inclined approximately 62° to the celestial equator and lying about one degree north of the center line of the Milky Way.
  • galvanic battery — battery (def 1a).
  • gamma correction — (hardware)   Adjustments applied during the display of a digital representation of colour on a screen in order to compensate for the fact that the Cathode Ray Tubes used in computer monitors (and televisions) produce a light intensity which is not proportional to the input voltage. The light intensity is actually proportional to the input voltage raised to the inverse power of some constant, called gamma. Its value varies from one display to another, but is usually around 2.5. Because it is more intuitive for the colour components (red, green and blue) to be varied linearly in the computer, the actual voltages sent to the monitor by the display hardware must be adjusted in order to make the colour component intensity on the screen proportional to the value stored in the computer's display memory. This process is most easily achieved by a dedicated module in the display hardware which simply scales the outputs of the display memory before sending them to the digital-to-analogue converters. More expensive graphics cards and workstations (particularly those used for CAD applications) will have a gamma correction facility. In combination with the "white-point" gamma correction is used to achieve precise colour matching.
  • garfield heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • garment district — an area in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City, including portions of Seventh Avenue and Broadway between 34th and 40th Streets and the streets intersecting them, that contains many factories, showrooms, etc., related to the design, manufacture, and wholesale distribution of clothing.
  • gas liquefaction — Gas liquefaction is the process of refrigerating a gas to a temperature that is below its critical temperature in order to form a liquid.
  • gastro-resistant — A gastro-resistant tablet is designed to temporarily withstand attack by stomach acid.
  • gastrointestinal — of, relating to, or affecting the stomach and intestines.
  • gaudeamus igitur — let us therefore rejoice
  • gaudí (i cornet) — An‧to‧nio (ɑnˈtɔnjɔ ) ; änt^ōˈny^ō) 1852-1926; Sp. architect
  • gaussian integer — a complex number of the form a + bi where a and b are integers.
  • gazetted officer — (in India) a senior official whose appointment is published in the government gazette
  • gelatin dynamite — a high explosive consisting of a gelatinized mass of nitroglycerin with cellulose nitrate added.
  • gemini telescope — either of two identical 8-metre telescopes for optical and near-infrared observations built by an international consortium. Gemini North is in Hawaii at an altitude of 4200 m on Mauna Kea and Gemini South is in Chile at 2715 m on Cerro Pachón
  • gender selection — choosing the sex of a baby
  • gender-normative — cisgender.
  • general aviation — aviation including business flying, sports flying, and crop dusting.
  • general election — U.S. Politics. a regularly scheduled local, state, or national election in which voters elect officeholders. Compare primary (def 15). a state or national election, as opposed to a local election.
  • general electric — (company)   (GE) A US company that manufactured computers from 1956 until 1970, when it sold its computer division to Honeywell and left the computer business. Notable GE computers were the GE-265, which supported the Dartmouth Time-sharing System (DTSS), and the GE-645 used for Multics development. See also GCOS. Not to be confused with the General Electric Company (GEC) in the UK (where FOLDOC's first seeds were sown).
  • general hospital — A general hospital is a hospital that does not specialize in the treatment of particular illnesses or patients.
  • general practice — family practice.
  • general solution — a solution to a differential equation that contains arbitrary, unevaluated constants.
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