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16-letter words containing of

  • (by) courtesy of — If something is provided courtesy of someone or by courtesy of someone, they provide it. You often use this expression in order to thank them.
  • a blaze of glory — If you go out in a blaze of glory, you do something very dramatic at the end of your career or your life which makes you famous.
  • a matter of time — If you say that something is just a matter of time, you mean that it is certain to happen at some time in the future.
  • a piece of goods — a person, esp a woman
  • act of indemnity — an act of Parliament granting exemption to public officers from technical penalties that they may have been compelled to incur
  • admitting office — an office in a hospital where administrative staff carry out the procedures necessary to admit a patient to the hospital
  • age of innocence — a novel (1920) by Edith Wharton.
  • angle of advance — the angle in excess of 90° that a steam-engine valve gear is in advance of the crank
  • anne of brittany — 1477–1514, wife of Maximilian I of Austria 1490–91; queen consort of Charles VIII of France 1491–98; queen consort of Louis XII of France 1499–1514.
  • anthony of padua — Saint. 1195–1231, Franciscan friar, who preached in France and Italy. Feast day: June 13
  • apple of discord — a golden apple inscribed "For the fairest". It was claimed by Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite, to whom Paris awarded it, thus beginning a chain of events that led to the Trojan War
  • aratus of sicyon — 271–213 b.c, Greek general: leader of the Achaean League.
  • article of faith — If something is an article of faith for a person or group, they believe in it totally.
  • article of virtu — an object that it interesting because of its rarity, beauty or appeal to a connoisseur
  • attitude of mind — Your attitude of mind is your general way of thinking and feeling.
  • autofluorescence — (biology, microscopy) Self-induced fluorescence.
  • avail oneself of — to make use of to one's advantage
  • axis of symmetry — Mathematics. a straight line for which every point on a given curve has corresponding to it another point such that the line connecting the two points is bisected by the given line.
  • bachelor of arts — a degree conferred on a person who has successfully completed his or her undergraduate studies, usually in a branch of the liberal arts or humanities
  • balance of power — The balance of power is the way in which power is distributed between rival groups or countries.
  • balance of trade — A country's balance of trade is the difference in value, over a period of time, between the goods it imports and the goods it exports.
  • barrier of ideas — the representations of objects which certain accounts of perception interpose between the objects themselves and our awareness of them, so that, as critics argue, we can never know whether there is in reality anything which resembles our perceptions
  • be of assistance — Someone or something that is of assistance to you is helpful or useful to you.
  • be off your food — If you are off your food, you do not want to eat, usually because you are ill.
  • be out of breath — If you are out of breath, you are breathing very quickly and with difficulty because you have been doing something energetic.
  • be the making of — to cause the success of
  • bells of ireland — an annual garden plant, Moluccella laevis, whose flowers have a green cup-shaped calyx: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
  • benzoate of soda — sodium benzoate
  • big bag of pages — (BIBOP) Where data objects are tagged with some kind of descriptor (giving their size or type for example) memory can be saved by storing objects with the same descriptor in one "page" of memory. The most significant bits of an object's address are used as the BIBOP page number. This is looked up in a BIBOP table to find the descriptor for all objects in that page. This idea is similar to the "zones" used in some Lisp systems (e.g. LeLisp).
  • bill of exchange — (now chiefly in foreign transactions) a document, usually negotiable, containing an instruction to a third party to pay a stated sum of money at a designated future date or on demand
  • biofortification — the process of breeding staple crops to have higher levels of essential nutrients, either through selective breeding or genetic modification: iron biofortification of rice; biofortification of wheat with zinc.
  • bird of ill omen — a person who brings bad news.
  • bird of paradise — A bird of paradise is a songbird which is found mainly in New Guinea. The male birds have very brightly coloured feathers.
  • bird-of-paradise — Also called bird-of-paradise flower. any of several plants of the genus Strelitzia, native to southern Africa, especially S. reginae, having a large, showy orange and blue inflorescence.
  • blow the lid off — a removable or hinged cover for closing the opening, usually at the top, of a pot, jar, trunk, etc.; a movable cover.
  • board of inquiry — a group set up to inquire into accidents, etc
  • board of pardons — an agency that determines which prisoners are to be released on parole or discretionary mandatory supervision and recommends pardons
  • boarding officer — a coastguard who boards ships suspected of carrying illegal cargoes or posing a security risk
  • book of business — A company's or agent's book of business is the total of all insurance accounts written by them.
  • book of the dead — in ancient Egypt, a book of prayers and charms meant to help the soul in the afterworld
  • bulletproof vest — a protective garment
  • bundle of nerves — a very nervous person
  • bundled software — software sold as part of a package with computers or other hardware or software
  • by word of mouth — orally rather than by written means
  • call of the wild — a novel (1903) by Jack London.
  • cayenne software — (company)   The company formed when CADRE merged with Bachman Information Systems in July 1996.
  • cedar of lebanon — a cedar, Cedrus libani, of SW Asia with level spreading branches and fragrant wood
  • chain of command — the various individual officers, ranks etc that constitute a hierarchy each level receiving orders from the one above it and passing on the orders to the one below
  • chamber of trade — a national organization representing local chambers of commerce
  • chest of drawers — A chest of drawers is a low, flat piece of furniture with drawers in which you keep clothes and other things.

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