17-letter words containing n, u, f, i
- a law unto itself — a person or thing that is outside established laws
- act of uniformity — any of the three statutes (1549, 1559, 1662) regulating public worship services in the Anglican Church, especially the act of 1662 requiring the use of the Book of Common Prayer.
- affaire d'honneur — a duel
- american foxhound — one of an American breed of medium-sized dogs having a smooth, glossy coat usually black, tan, and white in color, a square-cut muzzle, hanging ears, and a moderately high-set tail, used for hunting both in packs or individually, tailing the game by scent.
- angry fruit salad — (abuse) A bad visual-interface design that uses too many colours. (This term derives, of course, from the bizarre day-glo colours found in canned fruit salad). Too often one sees similar effects from interface designers using colour window systems such as X; there is a tendency to create displays that are flashy and attention-getting but uncomfortable for long-term use.
- anti-aircraft gun — a gun intended to destroy enemy aircraft
- antifouling paint — paint applied to the portion of a hull below the waterline to poison or discourage marine animals and plants that would otherwise cling to it.
- arsenic disulfide — an orange-red, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, As 4 S 4 , As 2 S 2 , or AsS, used chiefly in the manufacture of fireworks.
- barrow-in-furness — an industrial town in NW England, in S Cumbria. Pop: 47 194 (2001)
- bill of adventure — a certificate made out by a merchant to show that goods handled by him and his agents are the property of another party at whose risk the dealing is done
- blood transfusion — A blood transfusion is a process in which blood is injected into the body of a person who is badly injured or ill.
- blue false indigo — a North American plant, Baptisia australis, of the legume family, having wedge-shaped leaflets and blue, clustered flowers.
- boeuf bourguignon — a casserole of beef, vegetables, herbs, etc, cooked in red wine
- butacaine sulfate — a colorless, crystalline substance, (C18H30N2O2)2·H2SO4, used as a local anesthetic, esp. on mucous membranes
- buyers' inflation — inflation in which rising demand results in a rise in prices.
- california laurel — a Pacific coast shrub or tree (Umbellularia californica) of the laurel family, having aromatic evergreen leaves and hard wood; Oregon myrtle: a source of bay leaves
- california nutmeg — a tall, pungently aromatic California evergreen tree, Torreya californica, of the yew family, having a fissured, gray-brown bark and small, purple-streaked, green fruit.
- centrifugal brake — a safety mechanism on a hoist, crane, etc, that consists of revolving brake shoes that are driven outwards by centrifugal force into contact with a fixed brake drum when the rope drum revolves at excessive speed
- centrifugal force — In physics, centrifugal force is the force that makes objects move outwards when they are spinning around something or travelling in a curve.
- circular function — trigonometric function (def 1).
- compound fraction — complex fraction
- computer confetti — (jargon) (Or "chad") A common term for punched-card chad, which, however, does not make good confetti, as the pieces are stiff and have sharp corners that could injure the eyes.
- configurationally — With regard to a configuration.
- consolidated fund — a fund into which tax revenue is paid in order to meet standing charges, esp interest payments on the national debt
- council of europe — an association of European states, established in 1949 to promote unity between its members, defend human rights, and increase social and economic progress
- counter-influence — the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others: He used family influence to get the contract.
- counteroffensives — Plural form of counteroffensive.
- country of origin — the country from which a person originally comes
- court of sessions — any of state courts of criminal jurisdiction in California, New York, and a few other states.
- crucifixion thorn — one of several leafless, very thorny shrubs or small trees of the southwestern desert areas of North America.
- culture diffusion — the spreading out of culture, culture traits, or a cultural pattern from a central point.
- defending counsel — a barrister who defends a client in a trial
- deucalion's flood — a flood sent by Zeus that wiped out the entire population of the earth, except for Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha
- diffused junction — a semiconductor junction formed by diffusing acceptor or donor impurity atoms into semiconductor material to form regions of p-type or n-type conductivity
- disqualifications — Plural form of disqualification.
- disrespectfulness — The state or quality of being disrespectful; disrespect; disregard.
- double refraction — the separation of a ray of light into two unequally refracted, plane-polarized rays of orthogonal polarizations, occurring in crystals in which the velocity of light rays is not the same in all directions.
- drained of colour — colourless
- drinking fountain — a water fountain that ejects a jet of water for drinking without a cup.
- effective current — the magnitude of an alternating current having the same heating effect as that of a given magnitude of direct current.
- enrolment figures — the numbers of people enrolling at an institution, on a course, etc
- equalization fund — a monetary reserve established by a country to provide funds for maintaining the official exchange rates of its currency by equalizing the buying and selling of foreign exchange.
- equation of state — any equation that expresses the relationship between the temperature, pressure, and volume of a substance
- eudoxus of cnidus — ?406–?355 bc, Greek astronomer and mathematician; believed to have calculated the length of the solar year
- explicit function — a function whose values may be computed directly, as y = x2 + 1
- facts and figures — details; precise information
- fade in (or out) — to appear or cause to appear (or disappear) gradually; make or become more (or less) distinct
- farming community — a community where farming is the main industry
- fashion-conscious — interested in, and wanting to wear, fashionable clothes
- feint-ruled paper — writing paper with light horizontal lines printed across at regular intervals
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