16-letter words containing l, e, a, n, o
- fellow passenger — a person travelling on the same vehicle, plane, ship etc as you
- feulgen reaction — a reaction in which an aldehyde combines with a modified Schiff's reagent to produce a purplish compound: used especially to test for the presence of DNA
- fire regulations — rules intended to make sure that people and property stay safe in the event of a fire
- flabbergastation — (colloquial) Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted.
- flash eliminator — a device fitted to the muzzle of a firearm to reduce the flash made by the ignited propellant gases
- florencio varela — a city in E Argentina, near Buenos Aires.
- floridean starch — the storage polysaccharide of red algae.
- flower arranging — Flower arranging is the art or hobby of arranging cut flowers in a way which makes them look attractive.
- fluorescent lamp — a tubular electric discharge lamp in which light is produced by the fluorescence of phosphors coating the inside of the tube.
- food intolerance — an intolerance of a specific type of food, causing an adverse reaction
- for external use — If medicine is for external use, it is intended to be used only on the outside of your body, and not to be eaten or drunk.
- foreign language — language not one's mother tongue
- foreign national — citizen of another country
- forswear oneself — to swear falsely; perjure oneself
- fort leavenworth — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in E Kansas adjoining Leavenworth, one of the oldest (1827) military posts W of the Mississippi and site of federal penitentiary.
- four-dimensional — of a space having points, or a set having elements, which require four coordinates for their unique determination.
- fourier analysis — the expression of any periodic function as a sum of sine and cosine functions, as in an electromagnetic wave function. Compare Fourier series.
- francis of sales — Saint, 1567–1622, French ecclesiastic and writer on theology: bishop of Geneva 1602–22.
- franco-provencal — a Romance dialect group of western Switzerland and neighboring parts of France: closely related to both Provençal and northern French.
- franz josef land — an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, E of Spitzbergen and N of Novaya Zemlya: belongs to the Russian Federation.
- fraunhofer lines — a set of dark lines appearing in the continuous emission spectrum of the sun. It is caused by the absorption of light of certain wavelengths coming from the hotter region of the sun by elements in the cooler outer atmosphere
- freeboard length — the length of a vessel, measured on the summer load line from the fore side of the stem to some part of the stern, usually the after side of the rudderpost.
- french polynesia — a French overseas territory in the S Pacific, including the Society Islands, Marquesas Islands, and other scattered island groups. 1544 sq. mi. (4000 sq. km). Capital: Papeete.
- fringed polygala — a North American milkwort, Polygala paucifolia, having flowers with purplish-pink, winglike petals and a fringed tube.
- front-end loader — a loader having a shovel or bucket at the end of an articulated arm located at the front of the vehicle.
- frontier orbital — the highest-energy occupied orbital or lowest-energy unoccupied orbital in a molecule. Such orbitals have a large influence on chemical properties
- functional water — water containing additives that provide extra nutritional value
- funeral director — a person, usually a licensed embalmer, who supervises or conducts the preparation of the dead for burial and directs or arranges funerals.
- gas blowoff line — A gas blowoff line is a safety device to control sudden increases in pressure.
- gas liquefaction — Gas liquefaction is the process of refrigerating a gas to a temperature that is below its critical temperature in order to form a liquid.
- gasoline-powered — using gasoline as fuel
- gastroenterology — the study of the structure, functions, and diseases of digestive organs.
- gastrointestinal — of, relating to, or affecting the stomach and intestines.
- general aviation — aviation including business flying, sports flying, and crop dusting.
- general election — U.S. Politics. a regularly scheduled local, state, or national election in which voters elect officeholders. Compare primary (def 15). a state or national election, as opposed to a local election.
- general factotum — a person who does all sorts of jobs; general assistant
- general hospital — A general hospital is a hospital that does not specialize in the treatment of particular illnesses or patients.
- general sessions — a court of general jurisdiction in criminal cases in some U.S. states.
- general solution — a solution to a differential equation that contains arbitrary, unevaluated constants.
- geochronological — Of or pertaining to geochronology.
- george m pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
- george mcclellan — George Brinton [brin-tn] /ˈbrɪn tn/ (Show IPA), 1826–85, Union general in the American Civil War.
- globigerina ooze — a calcareous deposit occurring upon ocean beds and consisting mainly of the shells of dead foraminifers, especially globigerina.
- glossopharyngeal — of or relating to the tongue and pharynx.
- glove anesthesia — loss of sensation in the hand
- go to any length — the longest extent of anything as measured from end to end: the length of a river.
- gold-headed cane — a long thin stick with a curved or round top made of gold
- golden handcuffs — payments deferred over a number of years that induce a person to stay with a particular company or in a particular job
- golden handshake — a special incentive, as generous severance pay, given to an older employee as an inducement to elect early retirement.
- golden parachute — an employment contract or agreement guaranteeing a key executive of a company substantial severance pay and other financial benefits in the event of job loss caused by the company's being sold or merged.