13-letter words containing n, a, f, i
- free-floating — (of an emotional state) lacking an apparent cause, focus, or object; generalized: free-floating hostility.
- free-standing — A free-standing piece of furniture or other object is not fixed to anything, or stands on its own away from other things.
- freezing rain — rain that falls as a liquid but freezes into glaze upon contact with the ground.
- freight agent — a representative of a common carrier who manages the freight business in a local district.
- freight plane — an aeroplane used to transport goods
- freight train — a train of freight cars.
- french guiana — an overseas department of France, on the NE coast of South America: formerly a French colony. 35,135 sq. mi. (91,000 sq. km). Capital: Cayenne.
- french guinea — former name of Guinea.
- frequentation — the practice of frequenting; habit of visiting often.
- frequentative — noting or pertaining to a verb aspect expressing repetition of an action.
- freudian slip — (in Freudian psychology) an inadvertent mistake in speech or writing that is thought to reveal a person's unconscious motives, wishes, or attitudes.
- friction head — (in a hydraulic system) the part of a head of water or of another liquid that represents the energy that the system dissipates through friction with the sides of conduits or channels and through heating from turbulent flow.
- friction tape — a cloth or plastic adhesive tape, containing a moisture-resistant substance, used especially to insulate and protect electrical wires and conductors.
- fridge magnet — a small flat decorative object with a magnet on its back which is used to attach it to the front door of a fridge or other domestic appliance
- frighten away — cause sb/sth to run away
- frise aileron — an aircraft wing control surface designed with its leading edge extending forward of its axis of rotation so that when the aileron's trailing edge is raised the leading edge extends below the bottom surface of the wing.
- front-loading — Also, front-loaded. front-loading (def 1).
- fruit farming — the practice of growing or farming fruit
- fruit machine — gambling: slot machine
- frumentarious — of or relating to wheat or a similar grain
- frustratingly — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
- fugaciousness — (obsolete) fugacity.
- fulani empire — a powerful W African Muslim state that flourished in the 19th century in the area of present-day Nigeria.
- full laziness — (functional programming) A transformation, described by Wadsworth in 1971, which ensures that subexpressions in a function body which do not depend on the function's arguments are only evaluated once. E.g. each time the function f x = x + sqrt 4 is applied, (sqrt 4) will be evaluated. Since (sqrt 4) does not depend on x, we could transform this to: f x = x + sqrt4 sqrt4 = sqrt 4 We have replaced the dynamically created (sqrt 4) with a single shared constant which, in a graph reduction system, will be evaluated the first time it is needed and then updated with its value. See also fully lazy lambda lifting, let floating.
- fulminic acid — an unstable acid, CNOH, isomeric with cyanic acid, and known only in the form of its salts.
- funambulation — the act of walking on a tightrope; funambulism
- functionalise — to make functional.
- functionalism — (usually initial capital letter) Chiefly Architecture, Furniture. a design movement evolved from several previous movements or schools in Europe in the early 20th century, advocating the design of buildings, furnishings, etc., as direct fulfillments of material requirements, as for shelter, repose, or the serving of food, with the construction, materials, and purpose clearly expressed or at least not denied, and with aesthetic effect derived chiefly from proportions and finish, purely decorative effects being excluded or greatly subordinated. the doctrines and practices associated with this movement. Compare rationalism (def 4).
- functionalist — a person who advocates, or works according to, the principles of functionalism.
- functionality — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- functionalize — to make functional.
- functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
- furaciousness — the quality of being furacious or thievish
- furniture van — a van designed to move the furniture of a house, office, etc, to another place
- futilitarians — Plural form of futilitarian.
- gap financing — a mortgage or property loan given as an interim loan to finance the difference between the floor loan and the maximum permanent loan
- garnetiferous — containing or yielding garnets.
- garrison life — the life of troops who maintain and guard a military base or fortified place
- german africa — the former German colonies in Africa, comprising German East Africa, German Southwest Africa, Cameroons, and Togoland.
- giant pigfish — a wrass, Achoerodus gouldii, that occurs around the Great Barrier Reef
- gill filament — one of the threadlike processes forming the respiratory surface of a gill.
- ginger family — the plant family Zingiberaceae, characterized by tropical, often aromatic herbaceous plants having rhizomes, long sheathing leaves, and clusters of tubular flowers, and including cardamon, ginger, and turmeric.
- glorification — a glorified or more splendid form of something.
- grain of salt — salt crystal
- grain refiner — any chemical added to a molten metal or alloy to check grain growth.
- granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
- gratification — the state of being gratified; great satisfaction.
- habit of mind — If someone has a particular habit of mind, they usually think in that particular way.
- habit-forming — tending to cause or encourage addiction, especially through physiological dependence: habit-forming drugs.
- half coupling — a flange fixed at the end of each of the two shafts that are connected in a flange coupling