16-letter words containing r, f, i, d, t
- letter of credit — an order issued by a banker allowing a person named to draw money to a specified amount from correspondents of the issuer.
- life after death — If you talk about life after death, you are discussing the possibility that people may continue to exist in some form after they die.
- lithium fluoride — a fine, white, slightly water-soluble powder, LiF, used chiefly in the manufacture of ceramics.
- matthew flinders — Matthew, 1774–1814, English navigator and explorer: surveyed coast of Australia.
- no-fault divorce — a divorce granted without anyone being found guilty of marital misconduct
- north plainfield — a city in NE New Jersey.
- of it own accord — If something happens of its own accord, it seems to happen by itself, without anyone making it happen.
- orthoformic acid — a hypothetical acid, HC(OH) 3 , known only in the form of its esters.
- out of your mind — If you say that someone is out of their mind, you mean that they are mad or very foolish.
- outboard profile — an exterior side elevation of a vessel, showing all deck structures, rigging, fittings, etc.
- parts of lindsey — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
- pass-band filter — band-pass filter
- period furniture — furniture that was made during a particular period in time
- petrified forest — a national park in E Arizona, containing petrified coniferous trees about 170 000 000 years old
- radius of action — the maximum distance that a ship, aircraft, or land vehicle can travel from its base and return without refuelling
- rectified spirit — a constant-boiling mixture of ethanol and water, containing 95.6 per cent ethanol
- refractive index — index of refraction.
- reidentification — an act or instance of identifying; the state of being identified.
- self-advertising — the act or practice of calling public attention to one's product, service, need, etc., especially by paid announcements in newspapers and magazines, over radio or television, on billboards, etc.: to get more customers by advertising.
- self-degradation — the act of degrading.
- self-denigrating — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
- self-denigration — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
- self-deprecating — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
- self-deprecation — 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-descriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- self-destruction — the destruction or ruination of oneself or one's life.
- self-destructive — harmful, injurious, or destructive to oneself: His constant arguing with the boss shows he's a self-destructive person.
- self-determinism — a theory that every present state or condition of the self is a result of previous states or conditions of the self.
- self-discernment — the faculty of discerning; discrimination; acuteness of judgment and understanding.
- self-dramatizing — exaggerating one's own qualities, role, situation, etc., for dramatic effect or as an attention-getting device; presenting oneself dramatically.
- sliding friction — frictional resistance to relative movement of surfaces on loaded contact
- spreading factor — a substance, as hyaluronidase, that promotes the diffusion of a material through body tissues
- superfecundation — the fertilization of two or more ova discharged at the same ovulation by successive acts of sexual intercourse.
- texture modifier — a substance that is added to food products to increase viscosity
- tierra del fuego — a group of islands at the S tip of South America, separated from the mainland by the Strait of Magellan: jointly owned by Argentina and Chile; boundary disputed. 27,476 sq. mi. (71,165 sq. km).
- toing and froing — going back and forth
- trans-fatty acid — a polyunsaturated fatty acid that has been converted from the cis-form by hydrogenation: used in the manufacture of margarine
- transfer molding — a method of molding thermosetting plastic in which the plastic enters a closed mold from an adjoining chamber in which it has been softened.
- undifferentiable — capable of being differentiated.
- undifferentiated — to form or mark differently from other such things; distinguish.
- west springfield — a city in SW Massachusetts, near Springfield.
- wide of the mark — If something such as a claim or estimate is wide of the mark, it is incorrect or inaccurate.
- windchill factor — an estimated measurement of the cooling effect of air and wind, esp. when applied to the loss of body heat from exposed skin; chill factor
- windfall profits — Windfall profits are excessive profits with a non-business cause such as a natural disaster.
- wire-transferred — to transmit (money or credit) by wire transfer.
- with a free hand — with generosity; lavishly
- world federalist — a promoter or supporter of world federalism.
- wrongful trading — the act of allowing a company to continue trading when its insolvency is inevitable