16-letter words containing y, f
- imperfectability — The quality of not being perfectable; of being forever imperfect.
- imperfectibility — The state or quality of being imperfectible.
- 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
- johnny foreigner — a person from a country other than those which make up the United Kingdom
- junior flyweight — a boxer weighing up to 108 pounds (48.6 kg), between minimumweight and flyweight.
- 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.
- lily-of-the-nile — a plant, Agapanthus africanus, of the amaryllis family, native to Africa, having large umbels of blue flowers.
- 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
- medium frequency — any frequency between 300 and 3000 kilohertz. Abbreviation: MF.
- 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.
- montgomery clift — Montgomery, 1920–66, U.S. actor.
- month of sundays — a long time
- nitrosylsulfuric — of or derived from nitrosylsulfuric acid.
- non-confirmatory — serving to confirm; corroborative.
- non-inflammatory — tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion, etc.: inflammatory speeches.
- 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.
- off off broadway — experimental or avant-garde drama produced in New York City, in small theaters, halls, churches, etc.
- off-by-one error — (programming) (Or "Obi-Wan error") An exceedingly common error induced in many ways, such as by starting at zero when you should have started at one or vice-versa, or by writing "< N" instead of "<= N" or vice-versa. Often confounded with fencepost error, which is properly a particular subtype of it. The term zeroth corrects the linguistic off-by-one error of, e.g., referring to the "1st" element of an array whose indexes start from zero.
- 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
- out of the money — If an investment is out of the money, it would be a loss if it was sold.
- out of your mind — If you say that someone is out of their mind, you mean that they are mad or very foolish.
- over-familiarity — thorough knowledge or mastery of a thing, subject, etc.
- ovshinsky effect — an effect that turns special types of glassy, thin films into semiconductors upon application of low voltage.
- 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.