18-letter words containing n, t, e

fixed-term tenancy — a tenancy arrangement for a particular and fixed period
flash butt welding — a method of welding metal edge-to-edge with a powerful electric flash followed by the application of pressure.
flat on one's back — lying supine
flat-panel display — a type of thin, lightweight video display that uses liquid crystals or electroluminescence to reflect images.
floating underflow — underflow
floating-rate note — a eurobond, often issued as a negotiable bearer bond, that has a floating rate of interest
flotsam and jetsam — the part of the wreckage of a ship and its cargo found floating on the water. Compare jetsam, lagan.
flower arrangement — floral display
fluorescent screen — a transparent screen coated on one side with a phosphor that fluoresces when exposed to X-rays or cathode rays
fly in the face of — to move through the air using wings.
fly off the handle — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
for the time being — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
forced development — the processing of underexposed photographic film to increase the image density
fore-edge painting — a technique of painting a picture on the fore edge of a book, often in such a manner that only when the pages are slightly fanned the picture is revealed.
foreign investment — investment from foreign countries
foreign-trade zone — free port (def 1).
forensic chemistry — the application of facts concerning chemistry to questions of civil and criminal law.
forensic scientist — science expert: provides evidence
forethoughtfulness — The condition of being forethoughtful.
forget-me-not blue — a shade of blue similar to the shade of the flowers of a forget-me-not
forgive and forget — be reconciled
foundation garment — an undergarment, as a girdle or corset, worn by women to support or give shape to the contours of the body.
fourth commandment — “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy”: fourth of the Ten Commandments.
fracture toughness — The fracture toughness of a material is how likely it is to resist fracture.
fragmentation bomb — a bomb designed to break into many small, high-velocity fragments when detonated.
free-range poultry — poultry kept in natural nonintensive conditions
french west africa — a former French federation in W Africa, including Dahomey (now Benin), French Guinea, French Sudan (now Mali), Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, and Upper Volta (now Burkina Fasso).
french west indies — islands in the West Indies that belong to France, including two overseas departments (Martinique & Guadeloupe) & several former dependencies of Guadeloupe
frequency function — probability density function (def 2).
frequency spectrum — The frequency spectrum of an electrical signal is the distribution of the amplitudes and phases of each frequency component against frequency.
fringe-toed lizard — an iguanid lizard, Uma notata, of sandy deserts of the western U.S. and Mexico, having a wedge-shaped snout and toes fringed with long, pointed scales.
from stem to stern — If something happens from stem to stern on a boat, it involves the whole of the boat.
from the ground up — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
front of the house — façade of residential building, house front
ftp software, inc. — (company) Developers of the original PC/TCP Packet Driver specification. Address: 26 Princess St. Wakefield, MA 01880-3004. Telephone: +1 (617) 246 0900.
fu manchu mustache — a mustache whose ends droop to the chin.
fulminating powder — powder that explodes by percussion.
functional disease — a disease in which there is an abnormal change in the function of an organ, but no structural alteration in the tissues involved (opposed to organic disease).
functional testing — (testing) (Or "black-box testing", "closed-box testing") The application of test data derived from functional requirements without regard to how the system is implemented.
funding operations — the conversion of government floating stock or short-term debt into holdings of long-term bonds
gainful employment — an occupation that pays an income
galactic longitude — the angular distance in degrees measured eastward in the galactic plane from a radius drawn from the earth as center to the constellation Sagittarius.
galilean satellite — any of the four large satellites of the planet Jupiter – Io, Europa, Ganymede, or Callisto – discovered in 1610 by Galileo
galilean telescope — a refracting telescope that forms an erect image, consisting of an objective of relatively long focal length that causes light rays to converge and an eyepiece of short focal length that causes them to diverge.
garbage collection — (programming) (GC) The process by which dynamically allocated storage is reclaimed during the execution of a program. The term usually refers to automatic periodic storage reclamation by the garbage collector (part of the run-time system), as opposed to explicit code to free specific blocks of memory. Automatic garbage collection is usually triggered during memory allocation when the amount free memory falls below some threshold or after a certain number of allocations. Normal execution is suspended and the garbage collector is run. There are many variations on this basic scheme. Languages like Lisp represent expressions as graphs built from cells which contain pointers and data. These languages use automatic dynamic storage allocation to build expressions. During the evaluation of an expression it is necessary to reclaim space which is used by subexpressions but which is no longer pointed to by anything. This reclaimed memory is returned to the free memory pool for subsequent reallocation. Without garbage collection the program's memory requirements would increase monotonically throughout execution, possibly exceeding system limits on virtual memory size. The three main methods are mark-sweep garbage collection, reference counting and copying garbage collection. See also the AI koan about garbage collection.
garden loosestrife — any of various plants belonging to the genus Lysimachia, of the primrose family, having clusters of usually yellow flowers, as L. vulgaris (garden loosestrife) or L. quadrifolia (whorled loosestrife)
gastroduodenostomy — See under gastroenterostomy.
gastroenterologist — the study of the structure, functions, and diseases of digestive organs.
gene amplification — an increase in the frequency of replication of a DNA segment.
general anesthesia — induced unconsciousness

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