16-letter words containing t, r, i, g, f
- friction welding — a method of welding thermoplastics or metals by the heat generated by rubbing the members to be joined against each other under pressure.
- frigate mackerel — a small, blue-green, black-striped fish, Auxis thazard, abundant in tropical seas, having dark, oily flesh that is sometimes used as food.
- functional group — a group of atoms responsible for the characteristic behavior of the class of compounds in which the group occurs, as the hydroxyl group in alcohols.
- garfield heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- gazetted officer — (in India) a senior official whose appointment is published in the government gazette
- gentleman friend — a man with whom a woman is romantically involved; suitor.
- gift certificate — a certificate entitling the bearer to select merchandise of a specified cash value from a store, usually presented as a gift.
- go off the rails — If someone goes off the rails, they start to behave in a way that other people think is unacceptable or very strange, for example they start taking drugs or breaking the law.
- go with the turf — to be an unavoidable part of a particular situation or process
- go-faster stripe — a decorative line, intended to be suggestive of high speed, on the bodywork of a car
- gold certificate — a former U.S. paper currency issued by the federal government for circulation from 1865 to 1933, equal to and redeemable for gold to a stated value.
- good-for-nothing — worthless; of no use.
- grapefruit juice — nectar of the grapefruit
- gravity platform — (in the oil industry) a drilling platform that rests directly on the sea bed and is kept in position by its own weight; it is usually made of reinforced concrete
- group identifier — (operating system) (gid) A unique number, between 0 an 32767, identifying a set of users under Unix. Gids are found in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group databases (or their NIS equivalents) and one is also associated with each file, indicating the group to which its group permissions apply.
- headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
- high-pass filter — a filter that allows high-frequency electromagnetic signals to pass while rejecting or attenuating others below a specific value.
- imperfect fungus — a fungus for which only the asexual reproductive stage is known, as any fungus of the Fungi imperfecti.
- in the region of — You say in the region of to indicate that an amount that you are stating is approximate.
- infinite regress — causal or logical relationship of terms in a series without the possibility of a term initiating the series.
- inflationary gap — the excess of total spending in an economy over the value, at current prices, of the output it can produce
- interstratifying — Present participle of interstratify.
- inverse graffiti — a form of street art in which a dirty wall or pavement has a template placed against it and is scrubbed until the surface is clean. This reveals an image or message which gradually fades with time.
- isoplastic graft — syngraft.
- junior flyweight — a boxer weighing up to 108 pounds (48.6 kg), between minimumweight and flyweight.
- knights of labor — a secret workingmen's organization formed in 1869 to defend the interests of labor.
- larger than life — If you say that someone or something is larger than life, you mean that they appear or behave in a way that seems more exaggerated or important than usual.
- larger-than-life — exceedingly imposing, impressive, or memorable, especially in appearance or forcefulness: a larger-than-life leader.
- life-threatening — endangering life: a life-threatening illness.
- lighting fixture — a lighting fixture is part of a light that is attached to the wall or ceiling where you put the light bulb or other lighting element, and which cannot be easily removed
- managerial staff — staff in positions of management
- margin of safety — therapeutic index.
- misconfiguration — An incorrect or inappropriate configuration.
- montgomery clift — Montgomery, 1920–66, U.S. actor.
- motoring offence — a crime committed which concerns driving
- narcotrafficking — the buying and selling of illegal drugs.
- nonmanufacturing — (economics) Outside of the manufacturing sector.
- nothing short of — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
- of a certain age — of an unspecified age, but no longer young
- 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
- 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.
- perfecting press — a rotary press for printing both sides of a sheet or web in one operation.
- phosphor fatigue — screen saver
- refracting angle — an angle formed by a ray which is refracted and which is perpendicular to the refracting surface
- 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.
- registration fee — a fee paid to register, enrol or sign up for (a course, etc)
- releasing factor — a substance usually of hypothalamic origin that triggers the release of a particular hormone from an endocrine gland.
- right about face — Military. a command, given to a soldier or soldiers at attention, to turn the body about toward the right so as to face in the opposite direction. the act of so turning in a prescribed military manner.