11-letter words containing a, f, l, m
- frame relay — (communications) A DTE-DCE interface specification based on LAPD (Q.921), the Integrated Services Digital Network version of LAPB (X.25 data link layer). A common specification was produced by a consortium of StrataCom, Cisco, Digital, and Northern Telecom. Frame Relay is the result of wide area networking requirements for speed; LAN-WAN and LAN-LAN internetworking; "bursty" data communications; multiplicity of protocols and protocol transparency. These requirements can be met with technology such as optical fibre lines, allowing higher speeds and fewer transmission errors; intelligent network end devices (personal computers, workstations, and servers); standardisation and adoption of ISDN protocols. Frame Relay could connect dedicated lines and X.25 to ATM, SMDS, BISDN and other "fast packet" technologies. Frame Relay uses the same basic data link layer framing and Frame Check Sequence so current X.25 hardware still works. It adds addressing (a 10-bit Data Link Connection Identifier (DLCI)) and a few control bits but does not include retransmissions, link establishment, windows or error recovery. It has none of X.25's session layer but adds some simple interface management. Any network layer protocol can be used over the data link layer Frames.
- free sample — taster of sth offered at no charge
- ftp by mail — A service offered by DEC to allow people without Internet access to get copies of files which are available by anonymous FTP. Send a message with just the word "help" in the body to <[email protected]>.
- fulminating — Present participle of fulminate.
- fulmination — a violent denunciation or censure: a sermon that was one long fulmination.
- fulminatory — Thundering; striking terror.
- funambulate — to walk on a tightrope
- funambulism — The art of walking on a tightrope or a slack-rope.
- funambulist — a tightrope walker.
- fundamental — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
- gallimaufry — a hodgepodge; jumble; confused medley.
- granuliform — having a granular structure
- gulf stream — a warm ocean current flowing N from the Gulf of Mexico, along the E coast of the U.S., to an area off the SE coast of Newfoundland, where it becomes the western terminus of the North Atlantic Current.
- half-formed — external appearance of a clearly defined area, as distinguished from color or material; configuration: a triangular form.
- half-minute — 30 seconds
- hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.
- harmfulness — causing or capable of causing harm; injurious: a harmful idea; a harmful habit.
- health farm — A health farm is a hotel where people go to get fitter or lose weight by exercising and eating special food.
- high fulham — a die loaded at one corner either to favor a throw of 4, 5, or 6 (high fulham) or to favor a throw of 1, 2, or 3 (low fulham)
- hill farmer — a farmer on a hill farm
- holy family — a representation in art of Mary, Joseph, and the infant Jesus.
- host family — family one lodges with
- impactfully — In an impactful fashion.
- infantilism — the persistence in an adult of markedly childish anatomical, physiological, or psychological characteristics.
- inflammable — capable of being set on fire; combustible; flammable.
- inflammably — In an inflammable manner.
- inflammated — (nonstandard) Inflamed.
- infomercial — a long commercial that informs or instructs, especially in an original and entertaining manner: an infomercial on making Christmas decorations using the sponsor's brand of glue.
- informality — the state of being informal; absence of formality.
- infraphylum — (taxonomy) A taxon below subphylum and above superclass.
- interfamily — a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not: the traditional family. a social unit consisting of one or more adults together with the children they care for: a single-parent family.
- intrafamily — Occurring within a family.
- iris family — the plant family Iridaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having bulbs, corms, or rhizomes, sword-shaped grasslike leaves, and usually showy flowers, and including the blackberry lily, crocus, freesia, gladiolus, and iris.
- isle of man — Isle of, an island of the British Isles, in the Irish Sea. 227 sq. mi. (588 sq. km). Capital: Douglas.
- kaffir lime — an Asian citrus tree, Citrus hystrix, having green fruit with wrinkly skin and aromatic leaves that are used in Thai and Indonesian cookery.
- kulturkampf — the conflict between the German imperial government and the Roman Catholic Church from 1872 or 1873 until 1886, chiefly over the control of education and ecclesiastical appointments.
- lamb of god — Christ.
- lamelliform — shaped like a lamella; platelike; scalelike.
- land reform — any program, especially when undertaken by a national government, involving the redistribution of agricultural land among the landless.
- lapilliform — shaped like a pebble
- latifundium — a great estate.
- ley farming — the alternation at intervals of several years of crop growing and grassland pasture
- lifeboatman — a sailor qualified to take charge of a lifeboat or life raft.
- lifemanship — the ability to conduct one's life, career, personal relationships, etc., in a successful manner.
- lily family — the large plant family Liliaceae, characterized by chiefly herbaceous plants growing from bulbs, corms, rhizomes, or tubers, having narrow, parallel-veined, usually basal leaves, often showy flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including the aloe, asparagus, aspidistra, hyacinth, numerous species of lily, lily of the valley, trillium, and tulip.
- macrofloral — Relating to the macroflora.
- macrofossil — a fossil large enough to be studied and identified without the use of a microscope.
- magherafelt — a district of N Northern Ireland, in Co Londonderry. Pop: 40 837 (2003 est). Area: 572 sq km (221 sq miles)
- magic flute — an opera (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- mail filter — (messaging) A program which sorts and processes incoming mail based on patterns found in the mail headers.