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17-letter words containing fe

  • effective current — the magnitude of an alternating current having the same heating effect as that of a given magnitude of direct current.
  • electrified fence — a barrier that uses electric shocks to deter animals or people from crossing a boundary
  • fear and loathing — (Hunter S. Thompson) A state inspired by the prospect of dealing with certain real-world systems and standards that are totally brain-damaged but ubiquitous - Intel 8086s, COBOL, EBCDIC, or any IBM machine except the Rios (also known as the RS/6000).
  • feasibility study — (systems analysis)   Part of the systems develpment life cycle which aims to determine whether it is sensible to develop some system. The most popular model of feasibility study is "TELOS", standing for Technical, Economic, Legal, Operational, Schedule. Technical Feasibility: does the technology exist to implement the proposed system? Is it a practical proposition? Economic Feasibility: is the system cost-effective? Do benefits outweigh costs? Legal Feasibility: is there any conflict between the proposed system and legal requirements, e.g. the Data Protection Act? Operational Feasibility: are the current work practices and procedures adequate to support the new system? Schedule Feasibility: can the system be developed in time? After the feasibility study, the requirements analysis should be carried out.
  • feathered friends — Birds are sometimes referred to as our feathered friends.
  • federal land bank — a U.S. federal bank for making long-term loans to farmers.
  • fee-paying school — a school which charges fees to parents of pupils
  • feel like oneself — to perceive or examine by touch.
  • feint-ruled paper — writing paper with light horizontal lines printed across at regular intervals
  • felix frankfurter — Felix, 1882–1965, U.S. jurist, born in Austria: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1939–62.
  • fellow countryman — sb of same nationality
  • female chauvinist — a female who patronizes, disparages, or otherwise denigrates males in the belief that they are inferior to females and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit.
  • female-chauvinist — a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory.
  • fendalton tractor — a four-wheel drive recreational vehicle
  • fermentation lock — a valve placed on the top of bottles of fermenting wine to allow bubbles to escape
  • ferrimagnetically — In a ferrimagnetic manner.
  • ferroelectric ram — Ferroelectric Random Access Memory
  • finite difference — difference (def 9c).
  • francis ferdinand — 1863–1914, archduke of Austria: heir apparent to the thrones of Austria and Hungary whose assassination precipitated the outbreak of World War I (nephew of Francis Joseph I).
  • freewill offering — a voluntary religious contribution made in addition to what may be expected or required.
  • fuss and feathers — an excessively elaborate or pretentious display; ostentation.
  • greenhouse effect — an atmospheric heating phenomenon, caused by short-wave solar radiation being readily transmitted inward through the earth's atmosphere but longer-wavelength heat radiation less readily transmitted outward, owing to its absorption by atmospheric carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, and other gases; thus, the rising level of carbon dioxide is viewed with concern.
  • have feelings for — to be emotionally or sexually attracted to
  • have sth to offer — If you have something to offer, you have a quality or ability that makes you important, attractive, or useful.
  • hemorrhagic fever — any of several arbovirus infections, as dengue, characterized by fever, chills, and malaise followed by hemorrhages of capillaries, sometimes leading to kidney failure and death.
  • household effects — domestic belongings
  • in one fell swoop — to sweep through the air, as a bird or a bat, especially down upon prey.
  • interconfessional — common to or occurring between churches having different confessions.
  • interfenestration — a space between two windows.
  • interference drag — the drag on an aircraft caused by the interaction of two aerodynamic bodies.
  • interprofessional — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
  • jump trace buffer — (JTB) A feature of some pipelined processors (e.g. Amulet, Pentium?) which stores the source and destination addresses of the last few branch instuctions executed. When a branch instruction is fetched, its source is looked for in the JTB. If found, the next instuction fetch will be from the previous destination of that branch. If it turns out that the branch shouldn't have been taken this time, then the pipeline is flushed. This means that in a tight loop it is not necessary to flush the pipeline every time you jump back to the start.
  • juvenile offender — a child or young person who has been found guilty of some offence, act of vandalism, or antisocial behaviour before a juvenile court
  • language transfer — transfer (def 20).
  • lead a dog's life — a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
  • life and/or death — If you say that something is a matter of life and death, you are emphasizing that it is extremely important, often because someone may die or suffer great harm if people do not act immediately.
  • life imprisonment — long-term prison sentence
  • life of the party — most lively, outgoing person
  • lifelong learning — the provision or use of both formal and informal learning opportunities throughout people's lives in order to foster the continuous development and improvement of the knowledge and skills needed for employment and personal fulfilment
  • lifestyle disease — a disease that potentially can be prevented by changes in diet, environment, and lifestyle, such as heart disease, stroke, obesity, and osteoporosis
  • make a difference — have a significant impact
  • make reference to — mention, allude to
  • manifest function — any function of an institution or other social phenomenon that is planned and intentional.
  • mare fecunditatis — (Sea of Fertility) a dark plain in the fourth quadrant and extending into the first quadrant of the face of the moon: about 160,000 sq. mi. (415,000 sq. km).
  • mend one's fences — a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.
  • methyltransferase — any of a class of enzymes that catalyze the transfer of methyl groups from one molecule to another.
  • multiplier effect — the effect of government spending on national income
  • negative feedback — Electronics. the process of returning part of the output of a circuit, system, or device to the input, either to oppose the input (negative feedback) or to aid the input (positive feedback) acoustic feedback.
  • negative transfer — the obstruction of or interference with new learning because of previous learning, as when a U.S. tourist in England learns to drive on the left side of the road.
  • new lease on life — a contract renting land, buildings, etc., to another; a contract or instrument conveying property to another for a specified period or for a period determinable at the will of either lessor or lessee in consideration of rent or other compensation.
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