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16-letter words containing fo

  • parallel fortran — (language)   (Pfortran) Extensions to Fortran by Ridgway Scott <[email protected]> of Houston University. Pfortran provides a shared memory SIMD model on message passing computers. It was under development in 1994.
  • perforated ulcer — an ulcer that bursts through the stomach wall and leaks food and gastric juices into the abdominal cavity
  • performance bond — contract bond.
  • performance test — a test requiring little or no use of language, the test materials being designed to elicit manual or behavioral responses rather than verbal ones.
  • petrified forest — a national park in E Arizona, containing petrified coniferous trees about 170 000 000 years old
  • platform-balance — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
  • polyvinyl formal — a colorless, water-insoluble, polyvinyl acetal produced from partially hydrolyzed polyvinyl acetate and formaldehyde, used chiefly in the manufacture of lacquers.
  • portfolio worker — a person in portfolio employment
  • post-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
  • powerpc platform — (architecture, standard)   (PPCP, PReP - PowerPC Reference Platform, formerly CHRP - Common Hardware Reference Platform) An open system standard, designed by IBM, intended to ensure compatibility among PowerPC-based systems built by different companies. The PReP standard specifies the PCI bus, but will also support ISA, MicroChannel and PCMCIA. PReP-compliant systems will be able to run the Macintosh OS, OS/2, WorkplaceOS, AIX, Solaris, Taligent and Windows NT. IBM systems will (of course) be PReP-compliant. Apple's first PowerPC Macintoshes will not be compliant, but future ones may be.
  • put a foot wrong — to make a mistake
  • quinquefoliolate — (botany) Having five leaflets.
  • rational fortran — (language)   (RATFOR) Brian Kernighan's Fortran preprocessor that allows programming with C-like control flow. RATFOR is mainly of historical significance. A translator from Ratfor to Fortran IV was posted to comp.sources.Unix volume 13.
  • rich text format — (RTF) An interchange format from Microsoft for exchange of documents between Word and other document preparation systems.
  • root normal form — (RNF) Head Normal Form in graph rewriting.
  • self-enforcement — of or having the capability of enforcement within oneself or itself; self-regulating.
  • self-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
  • speak for itself — be self-evident
  • street performer — busker or entertainer in a public place
  • sulfocarbanilide — thiocarbanilide.
  • take for granted — to bestow or confer, especially by a formal act: to grant a charter.
  • teutoburg forest — region of low, forested mountains, mostly in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany: highest point, c. 1,500 ft (457 m)
  • the black forest — a hilly wooded region of SW Germany, in Baden-Württemberg: a popular resort area
  • the foreign-born — immigrants of a country
  • the four hundred — the most exclusive or affluent social clique in a particular place
  • the gang of four — a radical faction within the Chinese Communist Party that emerged as a political force in the spring of 1976 and was suppressed later that year. Its members, Zhang Chunqiao, Wang Hongwen, Yao Wenyuan, and Jiang Qing, were tried and imprisoned (1981)
  • the-little-foxes — a play (1939) by Lillian Hellman.
  • throw for a loop — a portion of a cord, ribbon, etc., folded or doubled upon itself so as to leave an opening between the parts.
  • to foot the bill — If you have to foot the bill for something, you have to pay for it.
  • to hold the fort — If you hold the fort for someone, or, in American English, if you hold down the fort, you look after things for them while they are somewhere else or are busy doing something else.
  • to play for time — If you play for time, you try to make something happen more slowly, because you do not want it to happen or because you need time to think about what to do if it happens.
  • to play the fool — If you play the fool or act the fool, you behave in a playful, childish, and foolish way, usually in order to make other people laugh.
  • transformational — the act or process of transforming.
  • tread under foot — to oppress
  • twenty-four-hour — lasting for twenty-four hours
  • twofold purchase — a purchase using a double standing block and a double running block so as to give a mechanical advantage of four or five, neglecting friction, depending on whether the hauling is on the standing block or the running block.
  • unenforceability — to put or keep in force; compel obedience to: to enforce a rule; Traffic laws will be strictly enforced.
  • uniformed branch — the branch of a police force in which officers wear a uniform
  • weather forecast — meteorological prediction
  • wheel of fortune — wheel (def 9).
  • william bradford — Gamaliel, 1863–1932, U.S. biographer and novelist.
  • word for windows — (text, tool, product)   The version of Microsoft Word which runs under Microsoft Windows. Version 6.0.
  • worth the effort — If you say that something is worth the effort, you mean that it will justify the energy that you have spent or will spend on it.
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