16-letter words containing ed
- editorialization — The act of editorializing, or something editorialized.
- edsel ford range — a mountain range in Antarctica, E of the Ross Sea.
- educational park — a group of elementary and high schools, usually clustered in a parklike setting and having certain facilities shared by all grades, that often accommodates students from a large area.
- edward the elder — died 924 ad, king of England (899–924), son of Alfred the Great
- elected official — person voted into office
- electrodeposited — Deposited by electrodeposition.
- elevated railway — an urban railway track built on supports above a road
- encyclopedically — In an encyclopedic way; in the manner of an encyclopedia.
- enriched uranium — uranium in which the proportion of the fissile isotope U-235 has been increased to make it more fissile
- expected utility — the weighted average utility of the possible outcomes of a probabilistic situation; the sum or integral of the product of the probability distribution and the utility function
- faintheartedness — The quality or state of being fainthearted.
- farmer's reducer — a solution of ferricyanide and hypo for reducing density and increasing contrast in a negative.
- fast of gedaliah — Tzom Gedaliah.
- fat-tailed sheep — one of a class of sheep with much fat along the sides of the tail bones, raised for their meat and widely distributed in southeast Europe, northern Africa, and Asia.
- federal district — a district in which the national government of a country is located, especially one in Latin America.
- federal register — a bulletin, published daily by the U.S. federal government, containing the schedule of hearings before Congressional and federal agency committees, together with orders, proclamations, etc., released by the executive branch of the government.
- federalist party — a political group that favored the adoption by the states of the Constitution.
- federated church — a church whose membership includes two or more congregations of different denominational affiliation.
- federation wheat — an early-maturing drought-resistant variety of wheat developed by William Farrar in 1902
- feeblemindedness — Quality of being feeble-minded; weak intellect.
- feedback control — (electronics) A control system which monitors its effect on the system it is controlling and modifies its output accordingly. For example, a thermostat has two inputs: the desired temperature and the current temperature (the latter is the feedback). The output of the thermostat changes so as to try to equalise the two inputs. Computer disk drives use feedback control to position the read/write heads accurately on a recording track. Complex systems such as the human body contain many feedback systems that interact with each other; the homeostasis mechanisms that control body temperature and acidity are good examples.
- feel constrained — If you feel constrained to do something, you feel that you must do it, even though you would prefer not to.
- finished product — the product that emerges at the end of a manufacturing process
- fixed-price menu — In a restaurant, the cost of a meal on a fixed-price menu stays the same and does not vary.
- flat-bed plotter — a mechanized drafting device, usually computer driven, incorporating a moving pen whose horizontal and vertical range in two dimensions is limited only by the size of the bed of the device.
- flat-bed scanner — a type of optical scanner having a flat, stationary surface on which a page is scanned by a moving head.
- flat-felled seam — a seam on the face of a garment, as on the outside of the legs of blue jeans, made by overlapping or interlocking one seam allowance with the other and top-stitching them together onto the garment with two parallel rows of stitches.
- flatheaded borer — the larva of a metallic wood-boring beetle, having an expanded and flattened anterior end.
- focused strategy — a business strategy in which an organization divests itself of all but its core activities, using the funds raised to enhance the distinctive abilities that give it an advantage over its rivals
- footsteps editor — the technician who adds sound effects, such as doors closing, rain falling, etc, during the postproduction sound-dubbing process
- forced vibration — Forced vibration is a type of vibration in which a force is repeatedly applied to a mechanical system.
- forked lightning — Forked lightning is lightning that divides into two or more parts near the ground.
- four-masted brig — jackass bark (def 2).
- frederic mistral — Frédéric [frey-dey-reek] /freɪ deɪˈrik/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, French Provençal poet: Nobel prize 1904.
- freshly squeezed — You can describe juice that has been recently pressed out of fruit as freshly squeezed.
- friedrich engels — Friedrich [free-drikh] /ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1820–95, German socialist in England: collaborated with Karl Marx in systematizing Marxism.
- friedrich wohler — Friedrich [free-drikh] /ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1800–82, German chemist.
- fringed polygala — a North American milkwort, Polygala paucifolia, having flowers with purplish-pink, winglike petals and a fringed tube.
- full speed ahead — train: at top speed
- gasoline-powered — using gasoline as fuel
- gazetted officer — (in India) a senior official whose appointment is published in the government gazette
- general medicine — non-surgical branch of medicine
- gilt-edged stock — government stock on which interest payments will certainly be met and that will certainly be repaid at par on the due date
- gold-headed cane — a long thin stick with a curved or round top made of gold
- good-heartedness — the quality of being good-hearted
- governmentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of governmentalize.
- grant-maintained — funded by national government
- granted (that) … — even assuming that
- granulated paper — paper with a roughened surface
- granulated sugar — a coarsely ground white sugar, widely used as a sweetener.