21-letter words containing f, i, t

ferric sodium oxalate — an emerald-green, crystalline, extremely water-soluble salt, used in photography and blueprinting.
file allocation table — (file system) (FAT) The component of an MS-DOS or Windows 95 file system which describes the files, directories, and free space on a hard disk or floppy disk. A disk is divided into partitions. Under the FAT file system each partition is divided into clusters, each of which can be one or more sectors, depending on the size of the partition. Each cluster is either allocated to a file or directory or it is free (unused). A directory lists the name, size, modification time and starting cluster of each file or subdirectory it contains. At the start of the partition is a table (the FAT) with one entry for each cluster. Each entry gives the number of the next cluster in the same file or a special value for "not allocated" or a special value for "this is the last cluster in the chain". The first few clusters after the FAT contain the root directory. The FAT file system was originally created for the CP/M[?] operating system where files were catalogued using 8-bit addressing. MS DOS's FAT allows only 8.3 filenames. With the introduction of MS-DOS 4 an incompatible 16-bit FAT (FAT16) with 32-kilobyte clusters was introduced that allowed partitions of up to 2 gigabytes. Microsoft later created FAT32 to support partitions larger than two gigabytes and pathnames greater that 256 characters. It also allows more efficient use of disk space since clusters are four kilobytes rather than 32 kilobytes. FAT32 was first available in OEM Service Release 2 of Windows 95 in 1996. It is not fully backward compatible with the 16-bit and 8-bit FATs. Compare: NTFS.
file service protocol — (protocol) (FSP) A protocol, similar to FTP, for copying files between computers. It's designed for anonymous archives, and has protection against server and network overloading. It doesn't use connections so it can survive interruptions in service. Until 1993-08-12, FSP didn't stand for anything. Wen-King was responsible for the initials and Michael Grubb <[email protected]> for their eventual expansion. Other suggestions were "File Slurping Protocol", "Flaky Stream Protocol" and "FTP's Sexier Partner".
financial times index — one of the indexes of share prices produced by the Financial Times, especially the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Index
financial underwriter — A financial underwriter is an insurance employee working in financial underwriting.
finite state automata — Finite State Machine
first baron ashburton — Alexander, 1st Baron Ashburton, 1774–1848, British statesman.
first consonant shift — the consonant shift described by Grimm's law, which distinguishes Germanic languages from other Indo-European languages.
first-dollar coverage — insurance that provides payment for the full loss up to the insured amount with no deductibles.
first-round financing — First round financing is the first time a new company raises money from investors.
five civilized tribes — the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles of the Indian Territory
flat-coated retriever — one of an English breed of large sporting dogs having a flat, dense, shiny black or liver-colored coat, small ears, and long jaws, used for retrieving game from both water and land.
flip someone the bird — give someone the finger (see phrase under finger)
flotation compartment — in a boat, an enclosed section filled with air or gas to give buoyancy
flowering wintergreen — fringed polygala.
food conversion ratio — a ratio expressing the weight of food required to produce a unit gain in the live weight of an animal
foot-in-mouth disease — the habit of making inappropriate, insensitive, or imprudent statements.
for someone's benefit — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
for the benefit of sb — If you say that someone is doing something for the benefit of a particular person, you mean that they are doing it for that person.
foreign correspondent — a correspondent, as for a periodical, assigned to send back articles and news dispatches from a foreign country for publication.
foreign exchange rate — the rate that specifies how much the currency of a nation is worth in terms of the currency of another nation
forensic anthropology — the branch of physical anthropology in which anthropological data, criteria, and techniques are used to determine the sex, age, genetic population, or parentage of skeletal or biological materials in questions of civil or criminal law.
fort lesley j. mcnair — a military reservation in SW Washington, D.C., on the Potomac River, SW of the Capitol.
forward compatibility — (jargon) The ability to accept input from later versions of itself. Forward compatibility is harder to achieve than backward compatibility, since, in the backward case, the input format is know whereas a forward compatible system needs to cope gracefully with unknown future features. An example of future compatibility is the stipulation that a web browser should ignore HTML tags it does not recognise. See also extensible.
fractional extraction — Fractional extraction is a process of extracting a liquid from a liquid, in which two solutes are separated, with one leaving in the extract and one in the raffinate.
fragmentation grenade — a grenade with a heavy metal casing that shatters, on exploding, into fragments that travel at high speed and with great force.
framing specification — A specification of the "protocol bits" that surround the "data bits" on a communications channel to allow the data to be "framed" into chunks, like start and stop bits in EIA-232. It allows a receiver to synchronize at points along the data stream.
franco-belgian system — French system.
frankfort on the main — a city in W central Germany, on the Main River.
fraudulent conversion — conversion committed with the intent to defraud
free-floating anxiety — chronic anxiety occurring for no identifiable cause
french fried potatoes — a more formal name for chips
friends with benefits — friends who have a casual sexual relationship with no expectation of commitment
fuel injection engine — and engine with a system for introducing atomized liquid fuel under pressure directly into the combustion chambers of an internal-combustion engine without the use of a carburettor
full faith and credit — the obligation under Article IV of the U.S. Constitution for each state to recognize the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state.
functional dependency — (database) Given a relation R (in a relational database), attribute Y of R is functionally dependent on attribute X of R and X of R functionally determines Y of R (in symbols R.X -> R.Y) if and only if each X in R has associated with it precisely one Y in R (at any one time). Attributes X and Y may be composite. This is very close to a function in the mathematical sense.
functional illiterate — a person with some basic education who still falls short of a minimum standard of literacy or whose reading and writing skills are inadequate to everyday needs.
functional imperative — a requirement for the survival of any social system, as communication, control of conflict, or socialization.
general of the armies — a special rank held by John J. Pershing, equivalent to general of the army.
genetic amplification — an increase in the frequency of replication of a DNA segment.
get into the swing of — If you get into the swing of something, you become very involved in it and enjoy what you are doing.
glen of imaal terrier — a strongly-built medium-sized variety of terrier with a medium-length coat and short forelegs
go (in) to bat for sb — If you go to bat for someone or go in to bat for them, you give them your support.
grammatical inference — Deducing a grammar from given examples. Also known as "inductive inference" and recently as "computational learning".
ground-effect machine — ACV (def 2).
high court of justice — an English court formed in 1873 from several superior courts and consisting of a court of original jurisdiction (High Court of Justice) and an appellate court (Court of Appeal)
higher-order function — (HOF) A function that can take one or more functions as argument and/or return a function as its value. E.g. map in (map f l) which returns the list of results of applying function f to each of the elements of list l. See also curried function.
highest common factor — greatest common divisor. Abbreviation: H.C.F.
host command facility — (operating system) (HCF) Used to access IBM S/36 and AS/400 computers from a mainframe.
house of prostitution — a brothel.

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