16-letter words containing g, p, f
- a piece of goods — a person, esp a woman
- big bag of pages — (BIBOP) Where data objects are tagged with some kind of descriptor (giving their size or type for example) memory can be saved by storing objects with the same descriptor in one "page" of memory. The most significant bits of an object's address are used as the BIBOP page number. This is looked up in a BIBOP table to find the descriptor for all objects in that page. This idea is similar to the "zones" used in some Lisp systems (e.g. LeLisp).
- centrifugal pump — a pump having a high-speed rotating impeller whose blades throw the water outwards
- dafydd ap gwilym — ?1320–?1380, Welsh poet
- deep-sea fishing — the activity of catching fish that live in the deep parts of the sea
- deficit spending — Deficit spending is an economic policy in which a government spends more money raised by borrowing than it receives in revenue.
- deflationary gap — a situation in which total spending in an economy is insufficient to buy all the output that can be produced with full employment
- 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.
- fellow passenger — a person travelling on the same vehicle, plane, ship etc as you
- figure of speech — any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect. Compare trope (def 1).
- financial doping — the situation in which a sports franchise borrows heavily in order to contract and pay high-performing players, jeopardizing their long-term financial future
- fingertip search — When the police carry out a fingertip search of a place, they examine it for evidence in a very detailed way.
- flying phalanger — any of various small phalangers of Australia and New Guinea, having a parachutelike fold of skin on each side of the body to give gliding assistance in leaping.
- forward planning — business: making future provisions
- fringed polygala — a North American milkwort, Polygala paucifolia, having flowers with purplish-pink, winglike petals and a fringed tube.
- functional group — a group of atoms responsible for the characteristic behavior of the class of compounds in which the group occurs, as the hydroxyl group in alcohols.
- gender-profiling — the use of personal characteristics or behavior patterns to make generalizations about a person, as in gender profiling.
- go-faster stripe — a decorative line, intended to be suggestive of high speed, on the bodywork of a car
- gold-of-pleasure — a yellow-flowered Eurasian plant, Camelina sativa, widespread as a weed, esp in flax fields, and formerly cultivated for its oil-rich seeds: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- grant of probate — a certificate stating that a will is valid
- grapefruit juice — nectar of the grapefruit
- 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
- grim file reaper — (storage, operating system) (GFR) An ITS and LISP Machine utility to remove files according to some program-automated or semi-automatic manual procedure, especially one designed to reclaim mass storage space or reduce name-space clutter (the original GFR actually moved files to tape). See also prowler, reaper. Compare GC, which discards only provably worthless stuff.
- group identifier — (operating system) (gid) A unique number, between 0 an 32767, identifying a set of users under Unix. Gids are found in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group databases (or their NIS equivalents) and one is also associated with each file, indicating the group to which its group permissions apply.
- high-pass filter — a filter that allows high-frequency electromagnetic signals to pass while rejecting or attenuating others below a specific value.
- high-performance — A high-performance car or other product goes very fast or does a lot.
- imperfect fungus — a fungus for which only the asexual reproductive stage is known, as any fungus of the Fungi imperfecti.
- 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.
- open-die forging — Open-die forging is a forging process in which the flow of metal is not kept completely in the die.
- 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.
- peregrine falcon — a globally distributed falcon, Falco peregrinus, much used in falconry because of its swift flight: several subspecies are endangered.
- perfecting press — a rotary press for printing both sides of a sheet or web in one operation.
- 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.
- pressure flaking — a method of manufacturing a flint tool by pressing flakes from a stone core with a pointed implement, usually of wood tipped with antler or copper.
- proof of postage — a document, such as a receipt, etc, that proves that you have posted or mailed something
- puddling-furnace — the act of a person or thing that puddles.
- pull a long face — to look sad, glum, disapproving, etc.
- put a foot wrong — to make a mistake
- racial profiling — the use of personal characteristics or behavior patterns to make generalizations about a person, as in gender profiling.
- refinery upgrade — A refinery upgrade is the process of introducing the newest technology in some parts of the refinery.
- regius professor — Crown-appointed holder of a university chair
- santa fe springs — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles: oil wells.
- self-deprecating — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
- self-disparaging — that disparages; tending to belittle or bring reproach upon: a disparaging remark.
- self-proclaiming — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
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