16-letter words containing o, f, l
- pull a long face — to look sad, glum, disapproving, etc.
- quinquefoliolate — (botany) Having five leaflets.
- racial profiling — the use of personal characteristics or behavior patterns to make generalizations about a person, as in gender profiling.
- ramen profitable — If a startup business is ramen profitable, it is barely profitable, just enough to allow the founder to live on the cheapest diet.
- rape of the lock — a mock-epic poem (1712) by Alexander Pope.
- rational fortran — (language) (RATFOR) Brian Kernighan's Fortran preprocessor that allows programming with C-like control flow. RATFOR is mainly of historical significance. A translator from Ratfor to Fortran IV was posted to comp.sources.Unix volume 13.
- reclassification — categorization in a different way
- red flour beetle — a reddish-brown flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, that feeds on stored grain, dried fruit, etc.
- reflection plane — a plane through a crystal that divides the crystal into two halves that are mirror images of each other.
- reflexive domain — A domain satisfying a recursive domain equation. E.g. D = D -> D.
- refuse collector — someone who collects of rubbish and waste, usually in a rubbish or refuse truck, before final disposal
- releasing factor — a substance usually of hypothalamic origin that triggers the release of a particular hormone from an endocrine gland.
- remember oneself — to recover one's good manners after a lapse; stop behaving badly
- robin goodfellow — Puck (def 1).
- roll-on roll-off — transportation; transportation mode using trucks on railcars or ships
- roll-on/roll-off — ship: transporting vehicles
- rolling friction — frictional resistance to rotation or energy losses in rolling bearings
- root normal form — (RNF) Head Normal Form in graph rewriting.
- rule of the road — any of the regulations concerning the safe handling of vessels under way with respect to one another, imposed by a government on ships in its own waters or upon its own ships on the high seas.
- sales conference — meeting of salespeople
- sapodilla family — the plant family Sapotaceae, characterized by chiefly tropical trees and shrubs having milky juice, simple leaves, small flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry, and including the buckthorn (genus Bumelia), sapodilla, star apple, and trees that are the source of gutta-percha and balata.
- scotch blackface — one of a Scottish breed of mountain sheep having a black face and growing long, coarse wool.
- seal of approval — royal stamp of endorsement
- seat of learning — People sometimes refer to a university or a similar institution as a seat of learning.
- self-abandonment — absence or lack of personal restraint.
- self-affirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
- self-approbation — approval; commendation.
- self-complacency — pleased with oneself; self-satisfied; smug.
- self-confinement — the act of confining.
- self-consequence — self-important character or quality; self-importance.
- self-constituted — constituted as such by oneself or itself
- self-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
- self-containment — the state of being self-contained.
- self-cultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- self-degradation — the act of degrading.
- self-denigration — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
- self-deprecation — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
- self-deprecatory — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
- self-deprivation — the act of depriving.
- self-description — a statement, picture in words, or account that describes; descriptive representation.
- self-designation — a name taken for oneself or one's own people
- self-destruction — the destruction or ruination of oneself or one's life.
- self-development — the act or process of developing; growth; progress: child development; economic development.
- self-dissolution — the act or process of resolving or dissolving into parts or elements.
- self-elaboration — an act or instance of elaborating.
- self-enforcement — of or having the capability of enforcement within oneself or itself; self-regulating.
- self-examination — examination into one's own state, conduct, motives, etc.
- self-exculpatory — intended to excuse oneself from blame or guilt
- self-explanatory — explaining itself; needing no explanation; obvious.
- self-explication — the act of explicating.