16-letter words containing t, r, i, f
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- on a war footing — If a country or armed force is on a war footing, it is ready to fight a war.
- operating profit — the profit of a company, etc, after it deducts its operating costs or the costs necessary to conduct the business
- 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.
- over-familiarity — thorough knowledge or mastery of a thing, subject, etc.
- pacific sturgeon — a dark gray sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus, inhabiting marine and fresh waters along the northwestern coast of North America, valued as a food and sport fish.
- packing fraction — Physics. a measure of the stability of an atomic nucleus, equal to 10 4 multiplied by the mass defect and divided by the mass number.
- partial fraction — one of the fractions into which a given fraction can be resolved, the sum of such simpler fractions being equal to the given fraction: Partial fractions of 5/(x2−x) are 5/(x−1) and −5/x.
- partial function — A function which is not defined for all arguments of its input type. E.g. f(x) = 1/x if x /= 0. The opposite of a total function. In denotational semantics, a partial function f : D -> C may be represented as a total function ft : D' -> lift(C) where D' is a superset of D and ft x = f x if x in D ft x = bottom otherwise where lift(C) = C U bottom. Bottom (LaTeX \perp) denotes "undefined".
- parts of lindsey — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
- pass-band filter — band-pass filter
- passive transfer — Immunology. injection of lymphocytes or antibody from an immune or sensitized donor to a nonimmune host in order to impart immunity or test for allergic reactions.
- perfecting press — a rotary press for printing both sides of a sheet or web in one operation.
- 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
- phosphor fatigue — screen saver
- plaster of paris — calcined gypsum in white, powdery form, used as a base for gypsum plasters, as an additive of lime plasters, and as a material for making fine and ornamental casts: characterized by its ability to set rapidly when mixed with water.
- portfolio worker — a person in portfolio employment
- post-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
- powerfully built — (of a person, esp a man) big and physically strong, with large muscles
- practical effect — Usually, practical effects. a special effect that is created live on the set of a film, using real-world objects.
- prespecification — the act of specifying.
- prince's feather — a tall, showy plant, Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys, of the amaranth family, having reddish foliage and thick spikes of small, red flowers.
- prince's-feather — a tall, showy plant, Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys, of the amaranth family, having reddish foliage and thick spikes of small, red flowers.
- principal rafter — a diagonal member of a roof principal, usually forming part of a truss and supporting the purlins on which the common rafters rest.
- proficiency test — an exam which test how proficient or skilled someone is in a particular activity, field of study, language, etc
- put sb/sth first — If you put someone or something first, you treat or consider them as more important than anything else.
- quarter-finalist — A quarter-finalist is a person or team that is competing in a quarter-final.
- radius of action — the maximum distance that a ship, aircraft, or land vehicle can travel from its base and return without refuelling
- 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.
- 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
- reconnection fee — an amount of money that a company charges customers in order to reconnect their supply of electricity, water, gas, or telephone after it has been stopped
- rectified spirit — a constant-boiling mixture of ethanol and water, containing 95.6 per cent ethanol
- reflection plane — a plane through a crystal that divides the crystal into two halves that are mirror images of each other.
- refracting angle — an angle formed by a ray which is refracted and which is perpendicular to the refracting surface
- refractive index — index of refraction.
- refrigerator car — a freight car having either an ice chest or machinery for chilling perishables and sometimes having a heating unit to keep perishables from freezing.