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16-letter words containing y, a, f

  • hydroformylation — the addition of a hydrogen atom and the formyl group to a double bond of a hydrocarbon by reaction with a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst.
  • immediate family — parents, siblings, children
  • imperfectability — The quality of not being perfectable; of being forever imperfect.
  • indefatigability — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
  • infant mortality — death during infancy
  • 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.
  • it's fair to say — You use fair in expressions such as It would be fair to say in order to introduce a statement which you believe to be true and reasonable.
  • ivyleaf geranium — a geranium plant, pelargonium peltatum, with trailing leaves and white, pink, red, or violet flowers
  • keynote software — A company which offers software-based business contact directories for people who develop, manufacture, market, or distribute software or multimedia products. E-mail: <[email protected]> (Subject: SEND INDEX).
  • kingfisher daisy — a bushy southern African plant, Felicia bergerana, having grasslike leaves and solitary, bright-blue flowers.
  • lady of pleasure — a prostitute.
  • lady of the lake — a narrative poem (1810) by Sir Walter Scott.
  • law of parsimony — a principle according to which an explanation of a thing or event is made with the fewest possible assumptions.
  • lay oneself open — to make oneself vulnerable (to criticism, attack, etc)
  • least flycatcher — a small flycatcher, Empidonax minimus, of eastern North America.
  • lleu llaw gyffes — the son of Gwydion and Arianhrod, provided with a name, weapons, and a wife through the magic and trickery of Gwydion in spite of the curses of Arianhrod.
  • madame butterfly — an opera (1904) by Giacomo Puccini.
  • magnifying glass — a lens that produces an enlarged image of an object.
  • make a day of it — to cause an activity to last a day
  • make the fur fly — the fine, soft, thick, hairy coat of the skin of a mammal.
  • manifest destiny — the belief or doctrine, held chiefly in the middle and latter part of the 19th century, that it was the destiny of the U.S. to expand its territory over the whole of North America and to extend and enhance its political, social, and economic influences.
  • margin of safety — therapeutic index.
  • matter-of-factly — adhering strictly to fact; not imaginative; prosaic; dry; commonplace: a matter-of-fact account of the political rally.
  • mayfield heights — a city in N Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • medal of bravery — a Canadian award for courage
  • 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.
  • modacrylic fiber — any of various synthetic copolymer textile fibers, as Dynel, containing less than 85 percent but more than 35 percent of acrylonitrile.
  • money of account — a monetary denomination used in reckoning, especially one not issued as a coin, as the U.S. mill.
  • monkey-faced owl — barn owl.
  • month of sundays — a long time
  • non-confirmatory — serving to confirm; corroborative.
  • non-inflammatory — tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion, etc.: inflammatory speeches.
  • off off broadway — experimental or avant-garde drama produced in New York City, in small theaters, halls, churches, etc.
  • off-off-broadway — experimental or avant-garde drama produced in New York City, in small theaters, halls, churches, etc.
  • one-way function — (cryptography, mathematics)   A function which is easy to compute but whose inverse is very difficult to compute. Such functions have important applications in cryptography, specifically in public-key cryptography. See also: trapdoor function.
  • order of the day — the agenda for an assembly, meeting, group, or organization.
  • ordnance factory — a factory that makes military weapons and ammunition
  • over-familiarity — thorough knowledge or mastery of a thing, subject, etc.
  • paraformaldehyde — a white, crystalline polymer of formaldehyde, (HCOH) n , from which it is obtained by evaporation of the aqueous solution: used chiefly as an antiseptic.
  • parts of lindsey — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
  • pathetic fallacy — the endowment of nature, inanimate objects, etc., with human traits and feelings, as in the smiling skies; the angry sea.
  • pearly razorfish — See under razorfish.
  • physical fitness — good physical condition
  • play off against — If you play people off against each other, you make them compete or argue, so that you gain some advantage.
  • polyvinyl formal — a colorless, water-insoluble, polyvinyl acetal produced from partially hydrolyzed polyvinyl acetate and formaldehyde, used chiefly in the manufacture of lacquers.
  • raspberry sawfly — a black sawfly, Monophadnoides geniculatus, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of the raspberry and blackberry.
  • refinery upgrade — A refinery upgrade is the process of introducing the newest technology in some parts of the refinery.
  • safety mechanism — a psychological or physiological response in an individual that protects the individual from harm
  • safety standards — standards prescribed (by a regulatory body, etc) that must be adhered to to ensure a product, event, etc, is safe and not dangerous
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