19-letter words containing g, r, i, f, n
- general post office — (in the U.S. postal system) the main post office of a city, county, etc., that also has branch post offices. Abbreviation: G.P.O., GPO.
- genetic fingerprint — DNA fingerprinting.
- gentile da fabriano — 1370?–1427, Italian painter.
- give (free) rein to — to allow to act without restraint
- give a person a fit — to surprise a person in an outrageous manner
- give one credit for — to commend one for
- godfrey of bouillon — (Duke of Lower Lorraine) 1060?–1100, French leader of the First Crusade 1096–99.
- grandfather's chair — wing chair.
- gravitational field — the attractive effect, considered as extending throughout space, of matter on other matter.
- great wall of china — a system of fortified walls with a roadway along the top, constructed as a defense for China against the nomads of the regions that are now Mongolia and Manchuria: completed in the 3rd century b.c., but later repeatedly modified and rebuilt. 2000 miles (3220 km) long.
- greenhouse whitefly — See under whitefly.
- greenstick fracture — an incomplete fracture of a long bone, in which one side is broken and the other side is still intact.
- gross profit margin — A gross profit margin is a measure of the profitability of a company, that is calculated by dividing gross profit by net sales.
- grosse pointe farms — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- guerrilla financing — the use of unconventional and marginally legal means to capitalize enterprises
- gulf of carpentaria — a shallow inlet of the Arafura Sea, in N Australia between Arnhem Land and Cape York Peninsula
- hang five (or ten) — to ride a surfboard with the toes of one (or both) feet draped over the front edge of the board
- harbinger-of-spring — a North American umbelliferous herb, Erigenia bulbosa, having white flowers that bloom early in the spring.
- high-flying tippler — a variety of domestic pigeon bred mainly for flying
- hildegard of bingen — Hildegard von (Hildegard of Bingen"Sibyl of the Rhine") 1098–1178, German nun, healer, writer, and composer.
- immigration officer — official administrating incoming foreigners
- indefinite integral — a representation, usually in symbolic form, of any function whose derivative is a given function.
- index-tracking fund — an investment fund that is administered so that its value changes in line with a given share index
- information algebra — Theoretical formalism for DP, never resulted in a language. Language Structure Group of CODASYL, ca. 1962. Sammet 1969, 709.
- information highway — information superhighway
- inglenook fireplace — a large fireplace with a space on either side
- islet of langerhans — any of several masses of endocrine cells in the pancreas that secrete insulin, somatostatin, and glucagon.
- jacques montgolfier — Jacques Étienne [zhahk ey-tyen] /ʒɑk eɪˈtyɛn/ (Show IPA), 1745–99, and his brother Joseph Michel [zhaw-zef mee-shel] /ʒɔˈzɛf miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA) 1740–1810, French aeronauts: inventors of the first practical balloon 1783.
- kingdom of burgundy — a kingdom in E France, established in the early 6th century ad, eventually including the later duchy of Burgundy, Franche-Comté, and the Kingdom of Provence: known as the Kingdom of Arles from the 13th century
- kingdom of lorraine — an early medieval kingdom on the Meuse, Moselle, and Rhine rivers: later a duchy
- lagrangian function — kinetic potential.
- landrum-griffin act — an act of Congress (1959) outlawing secondary boycotts, requiring public disclosure of the financial records of unions, and guaranteeing the use of secret ballots in union voting.
- lay one's finger on — to indicate, identify, or locate accurately
- leading aircraftman — the rank above aircraftman
- library of congress — one of the major library collections in the world, located in Washington, D.C., and functioning in some ways as the national library of the U.S. although not officially designated as such: established by Congress in 1800 for service to its members, but now also serving government agencies, other libraries, and the public.
- load-bearing printf — (programming, humour) The kind of bug present in a program which works correctly when producing debug output but fails when the debugging is turned off. The expression combines load-bearing wall and printf as used in debugging by printf.
- magnetomotive force — a scalar quantity that is a measure of the sources of magnetic flux in a magnetic circuit. Abbreviation: mmf.
- mail transfer agent — Message Transfer Agent
- manufacturing plant — factory
- moving spirit/force — The moving spirit or moving force behind something is the person or thing that caused it to start and to keep going, or that influenced people to take part in it.
- negation by failure — An extralogical feature of Prolog and other logic programming languages in which failure of unification is treated as establishing the negation of a relation. For example, if Ronald Reagan is not in our database and we asked if he was an American, Prolog would answer "no".
- not care/give a fig — If you say that someone doesn't care a fig or doesn't give a fig about something, you are emphasizing that they think it is unimportant or that they are not interested in it.
- nothing of the sort — not at all as described
- parting of the ways — When there is a parting of the ways, two or more people or groups of people stop working together or travelling together.
- patent infringement — breach of copyright
- performance figures — the statistics that indicate how well or badly a company or organization has performed
- persian gulf states — group of Arab sheikdoms along the Persian Gulf: Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, & United Arab Emirates
- point the finger at — to accuse or blame
- preferential voting — a system of voting designed to permit the voter to indicate an order of preference for the candidates on the ballot.
- put a figure on sth — When you put a figure on an amount, you say exactly how much it is.