16-letter words containing f, l, o, c
- file compression — (algorithm) The compression of data in a file, usually to reduce storage requirements.
- financial doping — the situation in which a sports franchise borrows heavily in order to contract and pay high-performing players, jeopardizing their long-term financial future
- financialization — (economics) Conversion of intangible value into financial instruments.
- finishing school — a private school, usually at the high-school or junior-college level, that teaches young women social graces and prepares them for life in society.
- flame cultivator — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
- flettner control — servocontrol (def 3).
- flight indicator — artificial horizon (def 3).
- florencio varela — a city in E Argentina, near Buenos Aires.
- floridean starch — the storage polysaccharide of red algae.
- flotation collar — an inflatable device worn around the neck to keep the wearer afloat when in danger of drowning
- flowering quince — any shrub belonging to the genus Chaenomeles, of the rose family, native to eastern Asia, having showy, waxy flowers and a quincelike fruit, grown widely as an ornamental.
- fluorescent lamp — a tubular electric discharge lamp in which light is produced by the fluorescence of phosphors coating the inside of the tube.
- fluosilicic acid — an unstable acid, H 2 SiF 6 , known only in its colorless, poisonous, fuming aqueous solution or in the form of its salts: used chiefly as a wood preservative, a disinfectant, and as a hardening agent in the manufacture of ceramic ware, cement, and concrete.
- folk linguistics — speculation and popular views about language.
- follicular phase — a stage of the menstrual cycle, from onset of menstruation to ovulation.
- follow the crowd — copy what others are doing
- food intolerance — an intolerance of a specific type of food, causing an adverse reaction
- football special — a train service provided specially to transport football supporters to and from a match
- for all sb cares — You can use for all I care to emphasize that it does not matter at all to you what someone does.
- four-course meal — A four-course meal is a meal that consists of four parts served one after the other.
- four-leaf clover — a clover leaf having four leaflets instead of the usual three, purported to bring good luck.
- francis of paula — Saint, 1416–1507, Italian monk: founder of the order of Minims.
- francis of sales — Saint, 1567–1622, French ecclesiastic and writer on theology: bishop of Geneva 1602–22.
- franco-provencal — a Romance dialect group of western Switzerland and neighboring parts of France: closely related to both Provençal and northern French.
- frankfurt school — a school of thought, founded at the University of Frankfurt in 1923 by Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse and others, derived from Marxist, Freudian, and Hegelian theory
- french polynesia — a French overseas territory in the S Pacific, including the Society Islands, Marquesas Islands, and other scattered island groups. 1544 sq. mi. (4000 sq. km). Capital: Papeete.
- french telephone — handset (def 1).
- friction welding — a method of welding thermoplastics or metals by the heat generated by rubbing the members to be joined against each other under pressure.
- friedrich wohler — Friedrich [free-drikh] /ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1800–82, German chemist.
- friendly society — law: mutual group providing benefits
- fuel consumption — use of a material to generate power
- full court press — Basketball. a tactic of harassing, close-guarding defense in which the team without the ball pressures the opponent man-to-man the entire length of the court in order to disrupt dribbling or passing and force a turnover: Suddenly behind by eighteen points, they went to a full-court press.
- full-court press — Basketball. a tactic of harassing, close-guarding defense in which the team without the ball pressures the opponent man-to-man the entire length of the court in order to disrupt dribbling or passing and force a turnover: Suddenly behind by eighteen points, they went to a full-court press.
- functional group — a group of atoms responsible for the characteristic behavior of the class of compounds in which the group occurs, as the hydroxyl group in alcohols.
- functional shift — a change in the grammatical function of a word, as in the use of the noun input as a verb or the noun fun as an adjective.
- functional water — water containing additives that provide extra nutritional value
- functionlessness — The quality or state of being functionless.
- funeral director — a person, usually a licensed embalmer, who supervises or conducts the preparation of the dead for burial and directs or arranges funerals.
- gas liquefaction — Gas liquefaction is the process of refrigerating a gas to a temperature that is below its critical temperature in order to form a liquid.
- general factotum — a person who does all sorts of jobs; general assistant
- gold certificate — a former U.S. paper currency issued by the federal government for circulation from 1865 to 1933, equal to and redeemable for gold to a stated value.
- golden handcuffs — payments deferred over a number of years that induce a person to stay with a particular company or in a particular job
- imperfect flower — a unisexual flower with only stamens or only pistils
- infelicitousness — (linguistics, pragmatics) The quality or state of being infelicitous, or pragmatically ill-formed.
- inofficious will — a will inconsistent with the moral duty and natural affection of the testator, especially one denying the legitimate heirs the portions of the estate to which they are legally entitled.
- isoplastic graft — syngraft.
- juvenile officer — a police officer concerned with juvenile delinquents.
- kirchhoff's laws — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
- knock for a loop — a portion of a cord, ribbon, etc., folded or doubled upon itself so as to leave an opening between the parts.
- la rochefoucauld — François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 6th Duc de, 1613–80, French moralist and composer of epigrams and maxims.