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16-letter words containing g, r, o, f

  • 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.
  • johnny foreigner — a person from a country other than those which make up the United Kingdom
  • junior flyweight — a boxer weighing up to 108 pounds (48.6 kg), between minimumweight and flyweight.
  • kingdom of arles — a kingdom in SE France which had dissolved by 1378: known as the Kingdom of Burgundy until about 1200
  • knights of labor — a secret workingmen's organization formed in 1869 to defend the interests of labor.
  • legion of honour — an order for civil or military merit instituted by Napoleon in France in 1802
  • lissajous figure — the series of plane curves traced by an object executing two mutually perpendicular harmonic motions.
  • log on (or off) — to enter the necessary information to begin (or end) a session on a computer terminal
  • manhood suffrage — the right of adult male citizens to vote
  • margin of safety — therapeutic index.
  • misconfiguration — An incorrect or inappropriate configuration.
  • mohammed of ghor — (Mu'izz-ad-din) died 1206, Muslim Sultan of Ghazni 1173–1206: established Muslim power in India.
  • 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.
  • phosphor fatigue — screen saver
  • proof of postage — a document, such as a receipt, etc, that proves that you have posted or mailed something
  • 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.
  • rate of exchange — exchange rate.
  • refrigerator car — a freight car having either an ice chest or machinery for chilling perishables and sometimes having a heating unit to keep perishables from freezing.
  • registration fee — a fee paid to register, enrol or sign up for (a course, etc)
  • regius professor — Crown-appointed holder of a university chair
  • releasing factor — a substance usually of hypothalamic origin that triggers the release of a particular hormone from an endocrine gland.
  • right about face — Military. a command, given to a soldier or soldiers at attention, to turn the body about toward the right so as to face in the opposite direction. the act of so turning in a prescribed military manner.
  • robin goodfellow — Puck (def 1).
  • rolling friction — frictional resistance to rotation or energy losses in rolling bearings
  • seat of learning — People sometimes refer to a university or a similar institution as a seat of learning.
  • self-degradation — the act of degrading.
  • self-denigration — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
  • self-integration — an act or instance of combining into an integral whole.
  • 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-reproducing — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • self-sovereignty — the quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority.
  • shoulder surfing — a form of credit-card fraud in which the perpetrator stands behind and looks over the shoulder of the victim as he or she withdraws money from an automated teller machine, memorizes the card details, and later steals the card
  • sliding friction — frictional resistance to relative movement of surfaces on loaded contact
  • soft brown sugar — a type of moist sugar made by coating white sugar with dark molasses
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