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14-letter words containing o, f, g

  • hemoflagellate — a flagellate protozoan, especially of the genera Trypanosoma and Leishmania, that is parasitic in the blood.
  • huffman coding — (algorithm)   A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
  • infant prodigy — an exceptionally talented child
  • kilogram-force — a meter-kilogram-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity, when acting on a mass of one kilogram. Abbreviation: kgf.
  • king of beasts — the lion.
  • law of thought — any of the three basic laws of traditional logic: the law of contradiction, the law of excluded middle, and the law of identity.
  • let oneself go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
  • lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
  • line of flight — the flight path of something travelling from one place to another
  • logania family — the plant family Loganiaceae, typified by herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs of warm regions having usually opposite leaves, clusters of regular flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry, capsule, or fleshy fruit, and including the butterfly bush, Carolina jessamine, logania, and trees of the genus Strychnos, which are the source of curare, nux vomica, and strychnine.
  • long-forgotten — belonging to the past; no longer remembered
  • long-suffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
  • magnetic force — the repelling or attracting force between a magnet and a ferromagnetic material, between a magnet and a current-carrying conductor, etc.
  • magnifications — Plural form of magnification.
  • malfunctioning — failure to function properly: a malfunction of the liver; the malfunction of a rocket.
  • man of galilee — Jesus.
  • managed forest — a sustainable forest in which usually at least one tree is planted for every tree felled
  • microfortnight — One millionth of the fundamental unit of time in the Furlong/Firkin/Fortnight system of measurement; 1.2096 sec. (A furlong is 1/8th of a mile; a firkin is 1/4th of a barrel; the mass unit of the system is taken to be a firkin of water). The VMS operating system has a lot of tuning parameters that you can set with the SYSGEN utility, and one of these is TIMEPROMPTWAIT, the time the system will wait for an operator to set the correct date and time at boot if it realises that the current value is bogus. This time is specified in microfortnights! Multiple uses of the millifortnight (about 20 minutes) and nanofortnight have also been reported.
  • miniature golf — a game or amusement modeled on golf and played with a putter and golf ball, in which each very short, grassless “hole” constitutes an obstacle course, consisting of wooden alleys, tunnels, bridges, etc., through which the ball must be driven to hole it.
  • mongolian fold — epicanthus.
  • moonlight flit — a hurried departure at night, esp from rented accommodation to avoid payment of rent owed
  • morgain le fay — Morgan le Fay.
  • morning coffee — a mid-morning snack with a cup of coffee drunk during a short break at work, or in your house, when you might invite someone in
  • mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • nitrogen fixer — any of various microorganisms in the soil involved in the process of nitrogen fixation.
  • non-conforming — to act in accordance or harmony; comply (usually followed by to): to conform to rules.
  • non-fragmented — reduced to fragments.
  • nonconflicting — Not conflicting; compatible.
  • nonfunctioning — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
  • noninterfering — Not interfering.
  • nonsignificant — (sciences) Lacking statistical significance.
  • not forgetting — You say not forgetting a particular thing or person when you want to include them in something that you have already talked about.
  • nothing for it — no choice; no other course
  • nothing if not — You use nothing if not in front of an adjective to indicate that someone or something clearly has a lot of the particular quality mentioned.
  • off one's game — playing badly
  • off the ground — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
  • offering price — the price quoted when something is offered for sale, especially the price per share, as of an investment security or mutual fund being sold to the public.
  • office manager — employee in charge of office personnel
  • on firm ground — in a safe situation
  • openoffice.org — (project)   (OOo) The group that produces a free (GPL) cross-platform office suite that provides much of the same functionality as Microsoft Office including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and graphics. Each program can read and write both its own and Microsoft formats.
  • organ of corti — Anatomy, Zoology. a structure in the cochlea of a mammal, consisting of hair cells that serve as receptors for auditory stimuli.
  • outing flannel — a light cotton flannel with a short, dense nap.
  • over-dignified — to confer honor or dignity upon; honor; ennoble.
  • oxford english — that form of the received pronunciation of English supposed to be typical of Oxford University and regarded by many as affected or pretentious
  • oyster farming — the activity of cultivating oysters for food or pearls
  • peace offering — any offering made to procure peace.
  • photofinishing — the act or occupation of developing films, printing photographs, etc.
  • piece of eight — peso (def 4).
  • pigeon fancier — sb who breeds pigeons
  • profit sharing — the sharing of profits, as between employer and employee, especially in such a way that the employee receives, in addition to wages, a share in the profits of the business.
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