12-letter words containing a, e, f
- loan officer — a bank employee who helps would-be borrowers get a loan
- loathfulness — (rare) The condition of being loathful; reluctance.
- looked-after — (of children) brought up by the state in institutions because their parents are dead or not able to care for them properly
- loriciferans — Plural form of loriciferan.
- lovecraftian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American fantasy and horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft (1870–1937)
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
- macclesfield — a market town in NW England, in Cheshire: former centre of the silk industry; pharmaceuticals, services. Pop: 50 688 (2001)
- magnificence — the quality or state of being magnificent; splendor; grandeur; sublimity: the magnificence of snow-covered mountains; the magnificence of his achievements.
- make friends — get to know people
- make game of — to make fun of; ridicule; mock
- make much of — great in quantity, measure, or degree: too much cake.
- malefactions — Plural form of malefaction.
- malefactress — a woman who violates the law or does evil.
- malefeasance — Obsolete form of malfeasance.
- malfeasances — Plural form of malfeasance.
- manifestness — The quality or state of being manifest or obvious.
- manifoldness — (mathematics) multiplicity.
- manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- manufacturer — a person, group, or company that owns or runs a manufacturing plant.
- manufactures — Plural form of manufacture.
- maple family — the plant family Aceraceae, typified by trees and shrubs having sweet sap, simple opposite leaves usually lobed or toothed, clusters of small flowers, and fruit in the form of a double-winged nutlet, and including maples and the box elder.
- married life — living as sb's spouse
- mary of teck — Mary (def 4).
- mass funeral — a funeral held for several dead people at the same time
- mauvaise foi — (in the philosophy of Sartre) the expression usually rendered as bad faith
- meaningfully — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
- meet halfway — to compromise with
- memory farts — (jargon, humour) The flatulent sounds that some MS-DOS box BIOSes (most notably AMI's) make when checking memory at boot time.
- metafictions — Plural form of metafiction.
- metafunction — (computing, programming) A function which calls all the other functions of a certain program; the only function that can be called independently.
- microfinance — (finance) Finance that is provided to unemployed or low-income people or groups.
- midafternoon — the part of the afternoon centering approximately on three o'clock; the period approximately halfway between noon and sunset.
- midwife toad — a European toad, Alytes obstetricans (family Discoglossidae), noted for its unusual breeding habits, in which mating occurs on land and the male broods the egg strings by wrapping them around his legs.
- mischanceful — unlucky
- misfashioned — Simple past tense and past participle of misfashion.
- misfeaturing — distorting the features
- misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
- modificative — (grammar) That which modifies or qualifies, as a word or clause.
- monofilament — Also, monofil [mon-uh-fil] /ˈmɒn əˌfɪl/ (Show IPA). a single, generally large filament of synthetic fiber. Compare multifilament (def 2).
- mother craft — a spaceship providing facilities and supplies for a number of smaller craft, or for astronauts
- mud filtrate — Mud filtrate is the liquid part of the mud which can pass through a medium and become separated from the mudcake.
- multifaceted — Having many facets.
- multifoliate — having many leaves or leaflets.
- multifurcate — forked; branching.
- mutessarifat — a province governed by a mutessarif
- myofilaments — Plural form of myofilament.
- near and far — close and distant
- neo-freudian — of or relating to a group of psychoanalytic thinkers whose modifications of Freudian analytic theory place increased emphasis on ego functions and interpersonal relationships.
- neofeudalism — A theorized contemporary rebirth of policies of governance, economy and public life reminiscent of those present in many feudal societies.