19-letter words containing l, f, r

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.
logical shift right — logical shift
love at first sight — instant romantic attraction to sb
low insertion force — (hardware) (LIF) PGA/SPGA sockets with no handle. The integrated circuit is simply pushed into the socket, and levered out to remove. Most motherboard processor sockets are now ZIF rather than LIF.
lymphoproliferation — (medicine) the excessive production of lymphocytes.
lymphoproliferative — Characterized by lymphoproliferation.
lyon office of arms — Heralds' Office.
mail transfer agent — Message Transfer Agent
make oneself scarce — insufficient to satisfy the need or demand; not abundant: Meat and butter were scarce during the war.
malice aforethought — a predetermination to commit an unlawful act without just cause or provocation (applied chiefly to cases of first-degree murder).
manufacturing plant — factory
mary wollstonecraft — Mary (Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) 1759–97, English author and feminist (mother of Mary Shelley).
master of the rolls — (in England and Wales) the judge who presides over the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) and who was formerly Keeper of the Records at the Public Record Office
mayor of the palace — one of a line of hereditary administrative lieutenants to the Merovingian kings who eventually took over royal function and title in the Frankish kingdoms; a palatine.
medical certificate — a document stating the result of a satisfactory medical examination
miracle of st. mark — a painting (1548) by Tintoretto.
modulus of rigidity — shear modulus.
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".
network file system — (networking, operating system) (NFS) A protocol developed by Sun Microsystems, and defined in RFC 1094, which allows a computer to access files over a network as if they were on its local disks. This protocol has been incorporated in products by more than two hundred companies, and is now a de facto standard. NFS is implemented using a connectionless protocol (UDP) in order to make it stateless. See Nightmare File System, WebNFS.
non-confrontational — tending toward or ready for confrontation: They came to the meeting with a confrontational attitude.
non-transferability — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
nonforfeiture value — any benefit, as cash or other form of insurance, available to a life-insurance policyholder who discontinues premium payments on the policy.
nordrhein-westfalen — German name of North Rhine-Westphalia.
norfolk island pine — a coniferous evergreen tree, Araucaria heterophylla (or A. excelsa), having whorled branches and needlelike foliage, widely cultivated as a houseplant.
not for much longer — if something will not happen for much longer, it will soon stop happening
on the threshold of — If you are on the threshold of something exciting or new, you are about to experience it.
on top of the world — the highest or loftiest point or part of anything; apex; summit. Synonyms: zenith, acme, peak, pinnacle, vertex. Antonyms: bottom, base, foot, lowest point.
orange flower water — a distilled infusion of orange blossom, used in cakes, confectionery, etc
oriental fruit moth — a moth, Grapholitha molesta, introduced into the U.S. from Asia, the larvae of which infest and feed on the twigs and fruits of peach, plum, and related trees.
oysters rockefeller — oysters topped typically with cooked spinach, cream sauce or butter, bacon, and seasonings, and broiled in a bed of rock salt: served on a half shell
parainfluenza virus — any of a group of viruses that cause respiratory infections with influenza-like symptoms, esp in children
paraphase amplifier — an amplifier that produces a push-pull output from a single input.
perfoliate bellwort — a slender plant, Uvularia perfoliata, of the lily family, of eastern North America, having pale yellow, bell-shaped flowers.
peroxysulfuric acid — persulfuric acid (def 1).
persian gulf states — group of Arab sheikdoms along the Persian Gulf: Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, & United Arab Emirates
personal watercraft — a jet-propelled boat ridden like a motorcycle.
pilgrimage of grace — a rebellion in 1536 in N England against the Reformation and Henry VIII's government
pillars of hercules — the two promontories at the E end of the Strait of Gibraltar: the Rock of Gibraltar on the European side and the Jebel Musa on the African side; according to legend, formed by Hercules
plastic deformation — In plastic deformation a material changes shape when a stress is applied to it and does not go back to its original state when the stress is removed.
post office problem — (algorithm) Given a set of points (in N dimensions), find another point which minimises the sum of the distances from that point to each of the others.
post-and-rail fence — a fence constructed of upright wooden posts with horizontal timber slotted through it
preferential voting — a system of voting designed to permit the voter to indicate an order of preference for the candidates on the ballot.
pride-of-california — a shrubby plant, Lathyrus splendens, of the legume family, native to southern California, having showy clusters of pale rose-pink, violet, or magenta flowers and large, smooth, beaked pods.
private first class — a soldier ranking above a private and below a corporal or specialist fourth class in the U.S. Army, and above a private and below a lance corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps.
production platform — offshore power station
professional advice — advice given by someone trained in a particular and relevant profession or job
professional school — a postgraduate school or college which trains students for a particular profession
professionalization — to give a professional character or status to; make into or establish as a profession.
profitability study — a study of how much profit a company, organization, etc, makes or how profitable it is
pseudo-professional — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.

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