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18-letter words containing g, f, d

  • angle of deviation — the angle between the direction of the refracted ray and the direction of the incident ray when a ray of light passes from one medium to another
  • angle of incidence — the angle that a line or beam of radiation makes with the normal to the surface at the point of incidence
  • arrest of judgment — a stay of proceedings after a verdict, on the grounds of error or possible error
  • attendance figures — the number of people present at events such as football matches or concerts
  • audio conferencing — the practice of conducting meetings by the use of audio telecommunications
  • bird's-nest fungus — any fungus of the family Nidulariaceae, having a nestlike spore-producing body containing egglike spore-filled structures
  • board of governors — a group of people who oversee the running of a school
  • commanding officer — A commanding officer is an officer who is in charge of a military unit.
  • cooling-off period — A cooling-off period is an agreed period of time during which two sides with opposing views try to resolve a dispute before taking any serious action.
  • cost of goods sold — The cost of goods sold is the cost of purchasing goods for resale, added to the cost of the raw materials and labor used to manufacture goods that are sold in a particular period of time.
  • dafydd ap gruffudd — died 1283, Welsh leader. Claiming the title Prince of Wales (1282), he led an unsuccessful revolt against Edward I: executed
  • dangerous offender — an offender who is deemed by a court of law to be likely to engage in further violent conduct, and who thus becomes eligible for an indefinite prison sentence
  • dead man's fingers — a soft coral, Alcyonium digitatum, with long finger-like polyps
  • dead-man's fingers — any of various fungi, sponges, plant roots, animal parts, etc., having fingerlike projections and a pale or dull color, as the gray-black woodland fungus Xylaria polymorpha or the whitish spongy gills of a food crab.
  • definitive plumage — the plumage of a bird that, once attained, does not change significantly in color or pattern for the rest of the bird's life.
  • degrees of freedom — the number of independent variables entering into a statistical measure or frequency distribution
  • dna fingerprinting — the use of a DNA probe for the identification of an individual, as for the matching of genes from a forensic sample with those of a criminal suspect.
  • duty-free shopping — the making of duty-free purchases
  • dwarf storage unit — (humour)   (DSU) An IBM term for a cupboard.
  • fall to the ground — (of a plan, theory, etc) to be rendered invalid, esp because of lack of necessary information
  • fatty degeneration — deterioration of the cells of the body, accompanied by the formation of fat globules within the diseased cells.
  • federal government — pertaining to or of the nature of a union of states under a central government distinct from the individual governments of the separate states, as in federal government; federal system.
  • ferdinand magellanFerdinand, c1480–1521, Portuguese navigator: discoverer of the Straits of Magellan 1520 and the Philippines 1521.
  • fight to the death — If you say that you will fight to the death for something, you are emphasizing that you will do anything to achieve or protect it, even if you suffer as a consequence.
  • fishing expedition — a legal proceeding mainly for the purpose of interrogating an adversary, or of examining his or her property and documents, in order to gain useful information.
  • flash butt welding — a method of welding metal edge-to-edge with a powerful electric flash followed by the application of pressure.
  • floating underflow — underflow
  • fluegelman, andrew — Andrew Fluegelman
  • fluorodeoxyglucose — (carbohydrate) A fluorine analog of glucose that is used in positron emission tomography.
  • for good (and all) — for always; finally; permanently
  • fore-edge painting — a technique of painting a picture on the fore edge of a book, often in such a manner that only when the pages are slightly fanned the picture is revealed.
  • foreign-trade zone — free port (def 1).
  • forgive and forget — be reconciled
  • forwarding address — address for mail to be sent on
  • foundation garment — an undergarment, as a girdle or corset, worn by women to support or give shape to the contours of the body.
  • foundling hospital — an institutional home for foundlings.
  • four-legged friend — a four-legged animal, esp a dog
  • fragile x syndrome — a widespread form of mental retardation caused by a faulty gene on the X chromosome.
  • fragile-x syndrome — an inherited condition characterized by learning disability: affected individuals have an X-chromosome that is easily damaged under certain conditions
  • frederick douglassFrederick, 1817–95, U.S. ex-slave, abolitionist, and orator.
  • fringe-toed lizard — an iguanid lizard, Uma notata, of sandy deserts of the western U.S. and Mexico, having a wedge-shaped snout and toes fringed with long, pointed scales.
  • from the ground up — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
  • fuel-saving device — a device that increases the fuel efficiency of a vehicle, so that it uses less fuel for a further distance
  • fulminating powder — powder that explodes by percussion.
  • fuming nitric acid — a colorless, yellowish, or brownish fuming corrosive liquid, usually prepared from nitric acid by the addition of excess nitrogen dioxide: used in organic synthesis for nitration, and as an oxidizer in liquid propellants for rockets.
  • funding operations — the conversion of government floating stock or short-term debt into holdings of long-term bonds
  • garden loosestrife — any of various plants belonging to the genus Lysimachia, of the primrose family, having clusters of usually yellow flowers, as L. vulgaris (garden loosestrife) or L. quadrifolia (whorled loosestrife)
  • generic identifier — (language, text)   A string constituting the name of a element in an SGML document.
  • get off the ground — project: start well
  • go off half-cocked — (of a firearm) at the position of half cock.

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