16-letter words containing g, r, i, f, n
- larger-than-life — exceedingly imposing, impressive, or memorable, especially in appearance or forcefulness: a larger-than-life leader.
- legion of honour — an order for civil or military merit instituted by Napoleon in France in 1802
- life-threatening — endangering life: a life-threatening illness.
- lighting fixture — a lighting fixture is part of a light that is attached to the wall or ceiling where you put the light bulb or other lighting element, and which cannot be easily removed
- managerial staff — staff in positions of management
- margin of safety — therapeutic index.
- misconfiguration — An incorrect or inappropriate configuration.
- montgomery clift — Montgomery, 1920–66, U.S. actor.
- motoring offence — a crime committed which concerns driving
- narcotrafficking — the buying and selling of illegal drugs.
- no hard feelings — If you say ' no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
- nonmanufacturing — (economics) Outside of the manufacturing sector.
- nothing short of — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- puddling-furnace — the act of a person or thing that puddles.
- 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.
- refracting angle — an angle formed by a ray which is refracted and which is perpendicular to the refracting surface
- 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.
- robin goodfellow — Puck (def 1).
- rolling friction — frictional resistance to rotation or energy losses in rolling bearings
- santa fe springs — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles: oil wells.
- schiff's reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
- sea fish farming — the farming of saltwater fish
- seat of learning — People sometimes refer to a university or a similar institution as a seat of learning.
- self-advertising — the act or practice of calling public attention to one's product, service, need, etc., especially by paid announcements in newspapers and magazines, over radio or television, on billboards, etc.: to get more customers by advertising.
- self-degradation — the act of degrading.
- self-denigrating — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
- self-denigration — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
- self-deprecating — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
- self-disparaging — that disparages; tending to belittle or bring reproach upon: a disparaging remark.
- self-dramatizing — exaggerating one's own qualities, role, situation, etc., for dramatic effect or as an attention-getting device; presenting oneself dramatically.
- self-integrating — to bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole.
- self-integration — an act or instance of combining into an integral whole.
- self-lubricating — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- self-proclaiming — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- self-pronouncing — having the pronunciation indicated, especially by diacritical marks added on original spellings rather than by phonetic symbols: a self-pronouncing dictionary.
- self-propagating — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- self-registering — registering automatically, as an instrument; self-recording.
- self-replicating — reproducing itself by its own power or inherent nature: self-replicating organisms.
- self-reproducing — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.