16-letter words containing ef
- becquerel effect — the electromotive force produced by the unequal illumination of two identical electrodes placed in an electrolyte.
- beef bourguignon — boeuf bourguignon
- beefsteak fungus — an edible reddish bracket fungus, Fistulina hepatica, that grows esp on oak trees and oozes a bloodlike juice
- beefsteak tomato — a very large fleshy variety of tomato
- before your time — If you say that something was before your time, you mean that it happened or existed before you were born or before you were able to know about it or remember it.
- beneficial owner — a person entitled to receive the profits or proceeds of property
- bernoulli effect — the decrease in pressure as the velocity of a fluid increases.
- best-before date — a date on packaged food indicating how long it is safe to keep it
- beta coefficient — a measure of the extent to which a particular security rises or falls in value in response to market movements
- burgundy trefoil — alfalfa.
- butterfly effect — the idea, used in chaos theory, that a very small difference in the initial state of a physical system can make a significant difference to the state at some later time
- cause and effect — You use cause and effect to talk about the way in which one thing is caused by another.
- cause-and-effect — noting a relationship between actions or events such that one or more are the result of the other or others.
- chief technician — a noncommissioned officer in the Royal Air Force junior to a flight sergeant
- cold wall effect — the condition or state of having large or multiple windows through which heat escapes and cold air is conducted into a heated room via radiation.
- coreferentiality — (of two words or phrases) having reference to the same person or thing.
- corned beef hash — a dish consisting of corned beef chopped and mixed together with mashed potatoes and various other ingredients, then fried
- cost-effectively — in a cost-effective way; efficiently
- cost-efficiently — cost-effective.
- defective number — a positive number that is greater than the sum of all positive integers that are submultiples of it, as 10, which is greater than the sum of 1, 2, and 5.
- defence in depth — the act or practice of positioning successive mutually supporting lines of defence in a given area
- deferred annuity — an annuity that commences not less than one year after the final purchase premium
- deferred success — (in Britain) a euphemism suggested as an alternative to ‘failure’, in order not to stigmatize pupils who have not achieved a pass in a particular subject
- deficit spending — Deficit spending is an economic policy in which a government spends more money raised by borrowing than it receives in revenue.
- definite article — The word 'the' is sometimes called the definite article.
- deflationary gap — a situation in which total spending in an economy is insufficient to buy all the output that can be produced with full employment
- deflecting force — the apparent deflection (Coriolis acceleration) of a body in motion with respect to the earth, as seen by an observer on the earth, attributed to a fictitious force (Coriolis force) but actually caused by the rotation of the earth and appearing as a deflection to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and a deflection to the left in the Southern Hemisphere.
- drag coefficient — a measure of the drag of an object in a moving fluid, esp air
- energy-efficient — A device or building that is energy-efficient uses relatively little energy to provide the power it needs.
- examine-in-chief — to examine (one's own witness) in attempting to adduce a case
- executive relief — sexual intercourse or masturbation
- foot reflexology — reflexology (def 1).
- forefathers' day — the anniversary of the day (December 21, 1620, in Old Style December 11) on which the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, Mass. Owing to an error in changing the date from the Old Style to the New, it is generally observed on December 22.
- franz josef land — an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, E of Spitzbergen and N of Novaya Zemlya: belongs to the Russian Federation.
- 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.
- goosefoot family — formerly, the plant family Chenopodiaceae, characterized by often weedy herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually alternate leaves, small and inconspicuous flowers, and tiny, dry fruit, and including the beet, glasswort, goosefoot, Russian thistle, saltbush, and spinach; now part of the amaranth family, Amaranthaceae.
- grapefruit juice — nectar of the grapefruit
- hawthorne effect — a positive change in the performance of a group of persons taking part in an experiment or study due to their perception of being singled out for special consideration.
- hold a brief for — to argue for; champion
- immunodeficiency — impairment of the immune response, predisposing to infection and certain malignancies.
- in a cleft stick — If you say that a person or organization is in a cleft stick, you mean that they are in a difficult situation which will bring them problems and harm whatever they decide to do.
- indefatigability — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
- irrefragableness — The quality or degree of being irrefragable.
- josephson effect — a high-speed switch, used in experimental computers, that operates on the basis of a radiative phenomenon (Jo·sephson effect) exhibited by a pair of superconductors separated by a thin insulator.
- kondratieff wave — a long business cycle of economic expansion and contraction, postulated to last about 60 years.
- la rochefoucauld — François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 6th Duc de, 1613–80, French moralist and composer of epigrams and maxims.
- leasehold reform — reform of the law relating to leasehold property
- left parenthesis — (character) "(". ASCII character 40. Common names: left paren; left parenthesis; left; open; paren (")" = thesis); open paren; open parenthesis; left parenthesis; left banana. Rare: so (")" = already); lparen; ITU-T: opening parenthesis; open round bracket, left round bracket, INTERCAL: wax (")" = wane); parenthisey (")" = unparenthisey); left ear. Paired with right parenthesis (")").
- left-hand dagger — a dagger of the 16th and 17th centuries, held in the left hand in dueling and used to parry the sword of an opponent.
- lighting effects — the illumination of a play, film, etc
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