16-letter words containing r, t, f

to lose track of — If you lose track of someone or something, you no longer know where they are or what is happening.
to play for time — If you play for time, you try to make something happen more slowly, because you do not want it to happen or because you need time to think about what to do if it happens.
to stand or fall — If an idea, claim, or attempt stands or falls on something, its truth or success depends on that thing.
to stop short of — If someone stops short of doing something, they come close to doing it but do not actually do it.
toing and froing — going back and forth
tomato fruitworm — corn earworm.
top-of-the-range — de luxe, expensive
tower of silence — a circular stone platform, typically 30 feet (9.1 meter) in height, on which the Parsees of India leave their dead to be devoured by vultures.
trailing fuchsia — a shrub, Fuchsia procumbens, of the evening primrose family, native to New Zealand, having long-stalked leaves and drooping, orange-and-purple flowers, used in hanging baskets.
train of thought — sequence of ideas
training officer — a person whose job is to teach people the skills they need for a particular field or profession
trans-fatty acid — a polyunsaturated fatty acid that has been converted from the cis-form by hydrogenation: used in the manufacture of margarine
transfer company — a company that transports people or luggage for a relatively short distance, as between terminals of two railroad lines.
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.
transfer payment — any payment made by a government for a purpose other than that of purchasing goods or services, as for welfare benefits.
transfer pricing — the setting of a price for the transfer of raw materials, components, products, or services between the trading units of a large organization
transfer station — a place where residential garbage and commercial wastes are compressed, baled, and loaded on vehicles for moving to disposal sites, as for landfill.
transfer student — a student who moves from one institution or course to another at the same level (e.g. undergraduate)
transformational — the act or process of transforming.
transverse flute — the normal orchestral flute, as opposed to the recorder (or fipple flute)
tread under foot — to oppress
treaty of verdun — an agreement reached in 843 ad by three grandsons of Charlemagne, dividing his empire into an E kingdom (later Germany), a W kingdom (later France), and a middle kingdom (containing what became the Low Countries, Lorraine, Burgundy, and N Italy)
triacetate fiber — a textile fiber made of cellulose triacetate.
tropic of cancer — Geography. either of two corresponding parallels of latitude on the terrestrial globe, one (tropic of Cancer) about 23½° N, and the other (tropic of Capricorn) about 23½° S of the equator, being the boundaries of the Torrid Zone. the tropics, the regions lying between and near these parallels of latitude; the Torrid Zone and neighboring regions.
twenty-four-hour — lasting for twenty-four hours
twin-lens reflex — See under reflex camera. Abbreviation: TLR.
twofold purchase — a purchase using a double standing block and a double running block so as to give a mechanical advantage of four or five, neglecting friction, depending on whether the hauling is on the standing block or the running block.
ultra filtration — Physical Chemistry. a filter for purifying sols, having a membrane with pores sufficiently small to prevent the passage of the suspended particles.
unconfirmability — to establish the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of; corroborate; verify: This report confirms my suspicions.
undifferentiable — capable of being differentiated.
undifferentiated — to form or mark differently from other such things; distinguish.
unenforceability — to put or keep in force; compel obedience to: to enforce a rule; Traffic laws will be strictly enforced.
utility software — system software that manages and optimizes the performance of hardware
velcro fastening — a fastening made of Velcro
vertical farming — a proposed system of growing crops in urban areas using specially designed skyscrapers
visiting fireman — an influential person accorded special treatment while visiting an organization, industry, city, etc.
visual interface — (tool, text) (vi) /V-I/, /vi:/, *never* /siks/ A screen editor crufted together by Bill Joy for an early BSD release. vi became the de facto standard Unix editor and a nearly undisputed hacker favourite outside of MIT until the rise of Emacs after about 1984. It tends to frustrate new users no end, as it will neither take commands while expecting input text nor vice versa, and the default setup provides no indication of which mode the editor is in (one correspondent accordingly reports that he has often heard the editor's name pronounced /vi:l/). Nevertheless it is still widely used (about half the respondents in a 1991 Usenet poll preferred it), and even some Emacs fans resort to it as a mail editor and for small editing jobs (mainly because it starts up faster than the bulkier versions of Emacs). See holy wars.
waterleaf family — the plant family Hydrophyllaceae, characterized by usually hairy herbaceous plants having lobed, divided, or compound leaves, five-parted blue or white flowers, and capsular fruit, and including baby-blue-eyes, phacelia, and waterleaf.
way of the cross — stations of the cross.
way of the world — a comedy of manners (1700) by William Congreve.
weather forecast — meteorological prediction
welfare benefits — financial assistance; social security payment
welfare payments — government benefits
west springfield — a city in SW Massachusetts, near Springfield.
wheel of fortune — wheel (def 9).
wide of the mark — If something such as a claim or estimate is wide of the mark, it is incorrect or inaccurate.
winchester rifle — a type of magazine rifle, first made in about 1866.
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.

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