16-letter words containing r, t, f

maintenance-free — requiring little or no maintenance: a maintenance-free swimming pool.
make a pitch for — to give verbal support to
make a virtue of — If you make a virtue of something, you pretend that you did it because you chose to, although in fact you did it because you had to.
make the fur fly — the fine, soft, thick, hairy coat of the skin of a mammal.
man of the world — a man who is widely experienced in the ways of the world and people; an urbane, sophisticated man.
man-of-the-earth — a morning glory, Ipomoea pandurata, of eastern North America, having white flowers and a very large, tuberous root.
managerial staff — staff in positions of management
manufactured gas — a gaseous fuel created from coal, oil, etc., as differentiated from natural gas.
margin of safety — therapeutic index.
matron of honour — a married woman serving as chief attendant to a bride
matter of course — an event or result that is natural or inevitable
matter of record — a fact or statement that appears on the record of a court and that can be proved or established by producing such record.
matter-of-course — occurring or proceeding in or as if in the logical, natural, or customary course of things; expected or inevitable.
matter-of-factly — adhering strictly to fact; not imaginative; prosaic; dry; commonplace: a matter-of-fact account of the political rally.
matthew flinders — Matthew, 1774–1814, English navigator and explorer: surveyed coast of Australia.
matthew of paris — c1200–59, English chronicler.
metallofullerene — (chemistry) A fullerene containing an enclosed metal atom.
mexican fruitfly — a brightly colored fly, Anastrepha ludens, whose larvae are a serious pest chiefly of citrus fruits and mangoes in Mexico, Central America, and southern Texas.
microsoft access — 1. (database) A relational database running under Microsoft Windows. Data is stored as a number of "tables", e.g. "Stock". Each table consists of a number of "records" (e.g. for different items) and each record contains a number of "fields", e.g. "Product code", "Supplier", "Quantity in stock". Access allows the user to create "forms" and "reports". A form shows one record in a user-designed format and allows the user to step through records one at a time. A report shows selected records in a user-designed format, possibly grouped into sections with different kinds of total (including sum, minimum, maximum, average). There are also facilities to use links ("joins") between tables which share a common field and to filter records according to certain criteria or search for particular field values. Version: 2 (date?). 2. (communications) A communications program from Microsoft, meant to compete with ProComm and other programs. It sucked and was dropped. Years later they reused the name for their database.
microsoft office — (product) Microsoft's bundles of productivity tools including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Front Page, Microsoft Team Manager, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Schedule+, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Small Business Financial Manager, Automap Streets Plus. Editions of Office include Microsoft Office Professional Edition, Microsoft Office Standard Edition, Microsoft Office Small Business Edition, Microsoft Office Developer Edition. Different editions contain different subsets of the above applications. Current version, as of 2004-08-30: Office 2003.
minerva software — A company producing software for the Acorn Archimedes.
miraculous fruit — miracle fruit.
misconfiguration — An incorrect or inappropriate configuration.
montgomery clift — Montgomery, 1920–66, U.S. actor.
mossbauer effect — the phenomenon in which an atom in a crystal undergoes no recoil when emitting a gamma ray, giving all the emitted energy to the gamma ray, resulting in a sharply defined wavelength.
motoring offence — a crime committed which concerns driving
multifariousness — (uncountable) The characteristic of being multifarious.
multilinear form — a function or functional of several variables such that when all variables but one are held fixed, the function is linear in the remaining variable.
multiple factors — polygene.
narcotraffickers — Plural form of narcotrafficker.
narcotrafficking — the buying and selling of illegal drugs.
new frontiersman — an advocate or follower of the New Frontier, especially one in public service.
nitrosylsulfuric — of or derived from nitrosylsulfuric acid.
no-fault divorce — a divorce granted without anyone being found guilty of marital misconduct
non-confirmation — the act of confirming.
non-confirmatory — serving to confirm; corroborative.
non-inflammatory — tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion, etc.: inflammatory speeches.
non-manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
non-transferable — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
nonmanufacturing — (economics) Outside of the manufacturing sector.
nonproliferation — the action or practice of curbing or controlling an excessive, rapid spread: nonproliferation of nuclear weapons.
north battleford — a city in W central Saskatchewan, in central Canada.
north plainfield — a city in NE New Jersey.
not on your life — the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.
nothing short of — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
nuclear transfer — the procedure used to produce the first cloned mammals, in which the nucleus of a somatic cell is transferred into an egg cell whose own nucleus has been removed. This cell is then stimulated by an electric shock to divide and form an embryo
oak leaf cluster — a U.S. military decoration in the form of a small bronze twig bearing four oak leaves and three acorns, worn on the ribbon of another decoration for valor, wounds, or distinguished service to signify a second award of the same medal.
of a certain age — of an unspecified age, but no longer young
of it own accord — If something happens of its own accord, it seems to happen by itself, without anyone making it happen.
of the nature of — having the essential character of; like

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