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16-letter words containing f

  • dolce far niente — pleasing inactivity.
  • dome of the rock — a shrine in Jerusalem at the site from which Muhammad ascended through the seven heavens to the throne of God: built on the site of the Jewish Temple.
  • dorothy canfield — Dorothy, Fisher, Dorothy Canfield.
  • drag coefficient — a measure of the drag of an object in a moving fluid, esp air
  • drift transistor — a transistor in which the impurity concentration in the base increases from the collector-base junction to the emitter-base junction, producing a resistivity gradient that greatly increases its high-frequency response
  • droves of people — large numbers of people
  • drug trafficking — smuggling illegal drugs
  • duchess of malfi — a tragedy (1614?) by John Webster.
  • dysfunctionality — (uncountable) The condition of being dysfunctional.
  • east coast fever — a disease of cattle, endemic in east and central Africa, caused by a parasite, Theileria parva, that is carried by ticks
  • economy of scale — a fall in average costs resulting from an increase in the scale of production
  • edsel ford range — a mountain range in Antarctica, E of the Ross Sea.
  • eigenfrequencies — Plural form of eigenfrequency.
  • elected official — person voted into office
  • electric furnace — any furnace in which the heat is provided by an electric current
  • electrical fault — a fault caused by something electrical
  • electronic flash — Photography
  • embroidery frame — a frame in the form of a pair of (usually circular) rings, designed to keep the fabric taut while an embroiderer works on it
  • energy-efficient — A device or building that is energy-efficient uses relatively little energy to provide the power it needs.
  • engineer officer — a ship's officer who is qualified to be in charge of the vessel's propulsion and other machinery
  • equation of time — the difference between apparent solar time and mean solar time, being at a maximum in February (over 14 minutes) and November (over 16 minutes)
  • equine influenza — a respiratory disease of horses, caused by the Orthomyxoviridae type A virus, characterized by a fever and persistent cough
  • erlenmeyer flask — conical container used in laboratory
  • error of closure — the amount by which a computed, plotted, or observed quantity or position differs from the true or established one, esp when plotting a closed traverse
  • examine-in-chief — to examine (one's own witness) in attempting to adduce a case
  • executive relief — sexual intercourse or masturbation
  • exemplifications — Plural form of exemplification.
  • exhaust manifold — An exhaust manifold is a heat-resistant tube that connects an engine to an exhaust pipe.
  • external affairs — (formerly) the Canadian federal Foreign Affairs department
  • extreme fighting — a combat sport incorporating techniques from a range of martial arts, with little if any regulation of the types of blows permissible
  • extrinsic factor — vitamin B12
  • eyjafjallajökull — a cone-shaped ice cap in south Iceland that covers an active volcano. The volcano’s eruption in 2010 resulted in large high-altitude clouds of volcanic ash that caused major disruption to European passenger air traffic. Height: 1666 m (5466 ft)
  • face recognition — the ability of a computer to scan, store, and recognize human faces for use in identifying people
  • facial neuralgia — paroxysmal darting pain and muscular twitching in the face, evoked by rubbing certain points of the face.
  • faction fighting — dissension
  • factor of safety — the ratio of the maximum stress that a structural part or other piece of material can withstand to the maximum stress estimated for it in the use for which it is designed.
  • fade-in fade-out — an optical effect in which a shot appears gradually out of darkness and then gradually disappears
  • fahrenheit scale — Gabriel Daniel [German gah-bree-el dah-nee-el] /German ˈgɑ briˌɛl ˈdɑ niˌɛl/ (Show IPA), 1686–1736, German physicist: devised a temperature scale and introduced the use of mercury in thermometers.
  • faintheartedness — The quality or state of being fainthearted.
  • fair to middling — free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice: a fair decision; a fair judge.
  • fair-trade price — the price set for a commodity by the Fairtrade Foundation
  • fairview heights — a city in SW Illinois.
  • falkland islands — disputed islands in Atlantic Ocean
  • falling sickness — epilepsy.
  • false beechdrops — either of two parasitic or saprophytic plants of the genus Monotropa, especially the tawny or reddish M. hypopithys (false beechdrops) of eastern North America.
  • false dragonhead — a North American plant, Physostegia virginiana, of the mint family, having a spike of tubular, two-lipped, pink or white flowers.
  • falsificationism — (epistemology) A scientific philosophy based on the requirement that hypotheses must be falsifiable in order to be scientific; if a claim is not able to be refuted it is not a scientific claim.
  • family allowance — a regular government payment to the parents of children up to a certain age
  • family balancing — the choosing of the sex of a future child on the basis of how many children of each sex a family already has
  • family of curves — a collection of curves whose equations differ only by values assigned a parameter or parameters.
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