16-letter words containing fi
- newspaper office — an office where the editorial and production staff of a newspaper work
- no fixed address — Someone who is of no fixed address does not have a permanent place to live.
- non-confidential — spoken, written, acted on, etc., in strict privacy or secrecy; secret: a confidential remark.
- non-confirmation — the act of confirming.
- non-confirmatory — serving to confirm; corroborative.
- non-quantifiable — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
- nonfiction novel — a narrative dealing with real events and people, written in the form of a novel.
- nonfinite clause — a clause with a nonfinite verb or with no verb, as the hour being late in The hour being late, we left.
- north plainfield — a city in NE New Jersey.
- official referee — (in England) a circuit judge attached to the High Court who is empowered to try certain cases, esp where a detailed examination of accounts or other documents is involved
- on-the-spot fine — a fine that is charged immediately upon being caught and found guilty of a crime
- operating profit — the profit of a company, etc, after it deducts its operating costs or the costs necessary to conduct the business
- outboard profile — an exterior side elevation of a vessel, showing all deck structures, rigging, fittings, etc.
- pacific sturgeon — a dark gray sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus, inhabiting marine and fresh waters along the northwestern coast of North America, valued as a food and sport fish.
- pass-band filter — band-pass filter
- pearly razorfish — See under razorfish.
- pension benefits — the benefits that are paid to a person in accordance with his pension scheme
- petrified forest — a national park in E Arizona, containing petrified coniferous trees about 170 000 000 years old
- physical fitness — good physical condition
- placement office — an office in a university that offers students careers advice and help to find employment
- postfix notation — (language) (Or "Reverse Polish Notation", RPN) One of the possible orderings of functions and operands: in postfix notation the functions are preceded by all their operands. For example, what may normally be written as "1+2" becomes "1 2 +". Postfix notation is well suited for stack based architectures but modern compilers reduced this advantage considerably. The best-known language with postfix syntax is FORTH. Some Hewlett-Packard calculators use it, e.g. HP-25, HP-29C, HP-41C, HP-23SII. Compare: infix notation, prefix notation.
- prespecification — the act of specifying.
- proficiency test — an exam which test how proficient or skilled someone is in a particular activity, field of study, language, etc
- pseudoscientific — any of various methods, theories, or systems, as astrology, psychokinesis, or clairvoyance, considered as having no scientific basis.
- put sb/sth first — If you put someone or something first, you treat or consider them as more important than anything else.
- quantum sufficit — as much as suffices; enough.
- quarter-finalist — A quarter-finalist is a person or team that is competing in a quarter-final.
- quasi-scientific — of or relating to science or the sciences: scientific studies.
- racial profiling — the use of personal characteristics or behavior patterns to make generalizations about a person, as in gender profiling.
- ramen profitable — If a startup business is ramen profitable, it is barely profitable, just enough to allow the founder to live on the cheapest diet.
- reclassification — categorization in a different way
- rectified spirit — a constant-boiling mixture of ethanol and water, containing 95.6 per cent ethanol
- refinery upgrade — A refinery upgrade is the process of introducing the newest technology in some parts of the refinery.
- reidentification — an act or instance of identifying; the state of being identified.
- romantic fiction — a genre of fiction focused on romantic love
- saccharification — to convert (starch) into sugar.
- sacrificial lamb — If you refer to someone as a sacrificial lamb, you mean that they have been blamed unfairly for something they did not do, usually in order to protect another more powerful person or group.
- schreiner finish — a lustrous surface imparted to a fabric by schreinerizing.
- sea fish farming — the farming of saltwater fish
- security officer — civilian, policeman or soldier who is responsible for security in a town or country
- self-affirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
- self-confinement — the act of confining.
- self-fulfillment — the act or fact of fulfilling one's ambitions, desires, etc., through one's own efforts.
- self-sacrificial — sacrifice of one's interests, desires, etc., as for duty or the good of another.
- self-sacrificing — sacrifice of one's interests, desires, etc., as for duty or the good of another.
- self-sufficiency — able to supply one's own or its own needs without external assistance: The nation grows enough grain to be self-sufficient.
- sheffield shield — (in Australia) the former name for the trophy of the annual interstate cricket competition
- shortfin corvina — See under corvina.
- shoulder surfing — a form of credit-card fraud in which the perpetrator stands behind and looks over the shoulder of the victim as he or she withdraws money from an automated teller machine, memorizes the card details, and later steals the card
- sickness benefit — Sickness benefit is money that you receive regularly from the government when you are unable to work because of illness.