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14-letter words containing i, g, n, f

  • man of galilee — Jesus.
  • meaningfulness — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
  • microfortnight — One millionth of the fundamental unit of time in the Furlong/Firkin/Fortnight system of measurement; 1.2096 sec. (A furlong is 1/8th of a mile; a firkin is 1/4th of a barrel; the mass unit of the system is taken to be a firkin of water). The VMS operating system has a lot of tuning parameters that you can set with the SYSGEN utility, and one of these is TIMEPROMPTWAIT, the time the system will wait for an operator to set the correct date and time at boot if it realises that the current value is bogus. This time is specified in microfortnights! Multiple uses of the millifortnight (about 20 minutes) and nanofortnight have also been reported.
  • midnight feast — a snack or many snacks eaten around midnight
  • miniature golf — a game or amusement modeled on golf and played with a putter and golf ball, in which each very short, grassless “hole” constitutes an obstacle course, consisting of wooden alleys, tunnels, bridges, etc., through which the ball must be driven to hole it.
  • mischief night — Halloween or, in some areas, the night before Halloween, as an occasion for pranks and minor vandalism by young people.
  • misclassifying — Present participle of misclassify.
  • misidentifying — Present participle of misidentify.
  • mixed feelings — conflicted emotions
  • mongolian fold — epicanthus.
  • moonlight flit — a hurried departure at night, esp from rented accommodation to avoid payment of rent owed
  • morgain le fay — Morgan le Fay.
  • morning coffee — a mid-morning snack with a cup of coffee drunk during a short break at work, or in your house, when you might invite someone in
  • mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • nitrogen fixer — any of various microorganisms in the soil involved in the process of nitrogen fixation.
  • non-conforming — to act in accordance or harmony; comply (usually followed by to): to conform to rules.
  • nonconflicting — Not conflicting; compatible.
  • nonfunctioning — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
  • noninterfering — Not interfering.
  • nonsignificant — (sciences) Lacking statistical significance.
  • not forgetting — You say not forgetting a particular thing or person when you want to include them in something that you have already talked about.
  • nothing for it — no choice; no other course
  • nothing if not — You use nothing if not in front of an adjective to indicate that someone or something clearly has a lot of the particular quality mentioned.
  • offering price — the price quoted when something is offered for sale, especially the price per share, as of an investment security or mutual fund being sold to the public.
  • office manager — employee in charge of office personnel
  • on firm ground — in a safe situation
  • openoffice.org — (project)   (OOo) The group that produces a free (GPL) cross-platform office suite that provides much of the same functionality as Microsoft Office including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and graphics. Each program can read and write both its own and Microsoft formats.
  • organ of corti — Anatomy, Zoology. a structure in the cochlea of a mammal, consisting of hair cells that serve as receptors for auditory stimuli.
  • outing flannel — a light cotton flannel with a short, dense nap.
  • over-dignified — to confer honor or dignity upon; honor; ennoble.
  • oxford english — that form of the received pronunciation of English supposed to be typical of Oxford University and regarded by many as affected or pretentious
  • oyster farming — the activity of cultivating oysters for food or pearls
  • peace offering — any offering made to procure peace.
  • penny-farthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
  • photofinishing — the act or occupation of developing films, printing photographs, etc.
  • pigeon fancier — sb who breeds pigeons
  • press briefing — a meeting called by an organization, government, etc, to inform the press of something
  • printing frame — a shallow, boxlike device with a glass plate on one side and an opaque, removable back, for holding a negative firmly against printing paper in contact printing.
  • profit sharing — the sharing of profits, as between employer and employee, especially in such a way that the employee receives, in addition to wages, a share in the profits of the business.
  • profit warning — a public announcement made by a company to shareholders and others warning that profits for a stated period will be much lower than had been expected
  • profit-seeking — attempting to make a profit or financial gains
  • profit-sharing — the sharing of profits, as between employer and employee, especially in such a way that the employee receives, in addition to wages, a share in the profits of the business.
  • ramos gin fizz — a cocktail of gin, egg white, lime and lemon juice, sugar, and cream, shaken with ice and often topped with soda or seltzer.
  • reefing jacket — a man's short double-breasted jacket of sturdy wool
  • refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
  • regasification — Regasification is the process of returning LNG to its gaseous state.
  • revolving fund — any loan fund intended to be maintained by the repayment of past loans.
  • right and left — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
  • rigidification — the state or process of stiffening or rigidifying
  • rite of spring — French Le Sacre du Printemps. a ballet suite (1913) for orchestra by Igor Stravinsky.
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