13-letter words containing a, f, l, s, e, n
- file transfer — (networking) Copying a file from one computer to another over a computer network. See also File Transfer Protocol, Kermit, Network File System, rcp, uucp, XMODEM, ZMODEM.
- finagle's law — (humour) The generalised or "folk" version of Murphy's Law, fully named "Finagle's Law of Dynamic Negatives" and usually rendered "Anything that can go wrong, will". One variant favoured among hackers is "The perversity of the Universe tends toward a maximum". The label "Finagle's Law" was popularised by SF author Larry Niven in several stories depicting a frontier culture of asteroid miners; this "Belter" culture professed a religion and/or running joke involving the worship of the dread god Finagle and his mad prophet Murphy.
- final whistle — sport: whistle indicating end of match
- fingal's cave — a cave on the island of Staffa, in the Hebrides, Scotland. 227 feet (69 meters) long; 42 feet (13 meters) wide.
- finite clause — a clause with a finite verb in its predicate.
- flabergasting — Present participle of flabergast.
- flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
- flemish giant — one of a breed of large domestic rabbits of Belgian origin, having a solid gray, white, or black coat, and raised for its meat and fur.
- flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
- fly fisherman — one who fishes by fly-casting
- flying saucer — any of various disk-shaped objects allegedly seen flying at high speeds and altitudes, often with extreme changes in speed and direction, and thought by some to be manned by intelligent beings from outer space.
- fool's errand — a completely absurd, pointless, or useless errand.
- foolhardiness — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
- fractionalise — Alt form fractionalize.
- fraser island — an island off the south-east coast of Queensland and the largest sand island in the world; contains rainforests, heathlands, and freshwater lakes; a national park (since 1976) and a World Heritage site (since 1992). Area: 1840 sq km (710 sq miles). Pop: 194 (2011)
- freudian slip — (in Freudian psychology) an inadvertent mistake in speech or writing that is thought to reveal a person's unconscious motives, wishes, or attitudes.
- frise aileron — an aircraft wing control surface designed with its leading edge extending forward of its axis of rotation so that when the aileron's trailing edge is raised the leading edge extends below the bottom surface of the wing.
- full laziness — (functional programming) A transformation, described by Wadsworth in 1971, which ensures that subexpressions in a function body which do not depend on the function's arguments are only evaluated once. E.g. each time the function f x = x + sqrt 4 is applied, (sqrt 4) will be evaluated. Since (sqrt 4) does not depend on x, we could transform this to: f x = x + sqrt4 sqrt4 = sqrt 4 We have replaced the dynamically created (sqrt 4) with a single shared constant which, in a graph reduction system, will be evaluated the first time it is needed and then updated with its value. See also fully lazy lambda lifting, let floating.
- full of beans — the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
- functionalise — to make functional.
- garrison life — the life of troops who maintain and guard a military base or fortified place
- general staff — a group of officers who are without command and whose duty is to assist high commanders in planning and carrying out orders in peace and war.
- granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
- half-finished — ended or completed.
- hard feelings — Hard feelings are feelings of anger or bitterness towards someone who you have had an argument with or who has upset you. If you say 'no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
- healthfulness — conducive to health; wholesome or salutary: a healthful diet.
- heartfeltness — The state or quality of being heartfelt.
- hill of beans — something of trifling value; virtually nothing at all: The problem didn't amount to a hill of beans.
- impactfulness — The quality of being impactful.
- ineffableness — The quality or state of being ineffable.
- infeasibility — not feasible; impracticable.
- infinitesimal — indefinitely or exceedingly small; minute: infinitesimal vessels in the circulatory system.
- informalities — Plural form of informality.
- informercials — Plural form of informercial.
- japanese wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus hodophylax, of Japan.
- landfill site — also landfill
- lightfastness — The quality of being lightfast.
- liquefacients — Plural form of liquefacient.
- liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
- mass affluent — the large number of individuals with liquid assets of around £250,000
- masterfulness — The quality of being masterful.
- moll flanders — (The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders) a novel (1722) by Daniel Defoe.
- monofilaments — Plural form of monofilament.
- new braunfels — a city in S Texas, near San Antonio.
- nonclassified — arranged or distributed in classes or according to class: We plan to review all the classified specimens in the laboratory.
- nonfatalities — Plural form of nonfatality.
- old-fashioned — of a style or kind that is no longer in vogue: an old-fashioned bathing suit.
- passionflower — any chiefly American climbing vine or shrub of the genus Passiflora, having showy flowers and a pulpy berry or fruit that in some species is edible.
- personal foul — a foul called in certain games, as basketball or football, for illegal body contact or rough, unsportsmanlike play.
- platiniferous — platinum-bearing