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13-letter words containing a, f, l

  • japanese wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus hodophylax, of Japan.
  • jellification — The process or result of jellifying.
  • jollification — jolly merrymaking; jolly festivity.
  • kaffeeklatsch — coffee klatsch.
  • kalambo falls — an archaeological site at the southeastern end of Lake Tanganyika, on the Zambia-Tanzania border, that has yielded one of the longest continuous cultural sequences in sub-Saharan Africa, beginning more than 100,000 years b.p. and characterized in the earliest levels by evidence of fire use and some simple wooden implements of Lower Paleolithic, or Acheulean, humans.
  • klamath falls — a city in SW Oregon.
  • labor of love — work done for the sake of one's own enjoyment or of benefit to others rather than for material rewards: He coached amateur baseball teams as a labor of love.
  • laissez-faire — of, relating to, or conforming to the principles or practices of laissez faire.
  • landfill site — also landfill
  • landing craft — any of various flat-bottomed vessels designed to move troops and equipment close to shore.
  • landing field — an area of land large and smooth enough for the landing and takeoff of aircraft.
  • landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
  • landsmanshaft — a fraternal organization made up of immigrants from the same region.
  • lap of honour — If the winner of a race or game does a lap of honour, they run or drive slowly around a race track or sports field in order to receive the applause of the crowd.
  • latent defect — hidden fault, undiscovered flaw
  • laurel family — the plant family Lauraceae, characterized by evergreen or deciduous trees having simple, leathery leaves, aromatic bark and foliage, clusters of small green or yellow flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or drupe, and including the avocado, bay, laurels of the genera Laurus and Umbellularia, sassafras, spicebush (Lindera benzoin), and the trees that yield camphor and cinnamon.
  • law of effect — another name for Thorndike's law
  • law of motion — any of three laws of classical mechanics, either the law that a body remains at rest or in motion with a constant velocity unless an external force acts on the body (first law of motion) the law that the sum of the forces acting on a body is equal to the product of the mass of the body and the acceleration produced by the forces, with motion in the direction of the resultant of the forces (second law of motion) or the law that for every force acting on a body, the body exerts a force having equal magnitude and the opposite direction along the same line of action as the original force (third law of motion or law of action and reaction)
  • law of nature — an empirical truth of great generality, conceived of as a physical (but not a logical) necessity, and consequently licensing counterfactual conditionals
  • leaf gelatine — gelatine in the form of thin sheets
  • leafleteering — The printing and distribution of leaflets, especially as propaganda.
  • leap of faith — to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch.
  • leap-frogging — a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
  • leapfrog test — a diagnostic technique using arithmetic or logical operations in a routine to manage the capacity of storage media, transfer data, and check the results.
  • legal fiction — an acceptance of something as true, for the sake of convenience; legal pretence
  • legal offence — a crime that breaks a particular law and requires a particular punishment
  • legume family — the large plant family Leguminosae (or Fabaceae), typified by herbaceous plants, shrubs, trees, and vines having usually compound leaves, clusters of irregular, keeled flowers, and fruit in the form of a pod splitting along both sides, and including beans, peas, acacia, alfalfa, clover, indigo, lentil, mesquite, mimosa, and peanut.
  • let off steam — a blast of air or wind: to clean machinery with a blow.
  • let's face it — You use the expression 'let's face it' when you are stating a fact or making a comment about something which you think the person you are talking to may find unpleasant or be unwilling to admit.
  • lethal factor — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
  • liebfraumilch — a white wine produced chiefly in the region of Hesse in Germany.
  • life is cheap — You use life is cheap or life has become cheap to refer to a situation in which nobody cares that large numbers of people are dying.
  • life-changing — having major impact on sb
  • life-or-death — life-and-death.
  • lift a finger — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • lifted domain — (theory)   In domain theory, a domain with a new bottom element added. Given a domain D, the lifted domain, lift D contains an element lift d corresponding to each element d in D with the same ordering as in D and a new element bottom which is less than every other element in lift D. In functional languages, a lifted domain can be used to model a constructed type, e.g. the type data LiftedInt = K Int contains the values K minint .. K maxint and K bottom, corresponding to the values in Int, and a new value bottom. This denotes the fact that when computing a value v = (K n) the computation of either n or v may fail to terminate yielding the values (K bottom) or bottom respectively. (In LaTeX, a lifted domain or element is indicated by a subscript \perp). See also tuple.
  • lightfastness — The quality of being lightfast.
  • lignification — Turning to wood; the process of becoming ligneous.
  • linden family — the plant family Tiliaceae, characterized by deciduous trees or shrubs having simple, usually alternate leaves, fibrous bark, fragrant flowers, and dry, woody fruit, and including the basswood, jute, and linden.
  • lingayen gulf — a gulf in the Philippines, on the NW coast of Luzon.
  • lingua franca — any language that is widely used as a means of communication among speakers of other languages.
  • liquefacients — Plural form of liquefacient.
  • liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
  • liquification — Alternative form of liquefaction.
  • lithification — the process or processes by which unconsolidated materials are converted into coherent solid rock, as by compaction or cementation.
  • little alfold — a plain in NW Hungary and S Slovakia.
  • logical shift — (programming)   (Either shift left logical or shift right logical) Machine-level operations available on nearly all processors which move each bit in a word one or more bit positions in the given direction. A left shift moves the bits to more significant positions (like multiplying by two), a right shift moves them to less significant positions (like dividing by two). The comparison with multiplication and division breaks down in certain circumstances - a logical shift may discard bits that are shifted off either end of the word and does not preserve the sign of the word (positive or negative). Logical shift is approriate when treating the word as a bit string or a sequence of bit fields, whereas arithmetic shift is appropriate when treating it as a binary number. The word to be shifted is usually stored in a register, or possibly in memory.
  • long fin tuna — a tunny, Thunnus alalunga, occurring mainly in warm regions of the Atlantic and Pacific. It has very long pectoral fins and is a valued food fish
  • longleaf pine — an American pine, Pinus palustris, valued as a source of turpentine and for its timber.
  • look and feel — (operating system)   The appearance and function of a program's user interface. The term is most often applied to graphical user interfaces (GUI) but might also be used by extension for a textual command language used to control a program. Look and feel includes such things as the icons used to represent certain functions such as opening and closing files, directories and application programs and changing the size and position of windows; conventions for the meaning of different buttons on a mouse and keys on the keyboard; and the appearance and operation of menus. A user interface with a consistent look and feel is considered by many to be an important factor in the ease of use of a computer system. The success of the Macintosh user interface was partly due to its consistency. Because of the perceived importance of look and feel, there have been several legal actions claiming breech of copyright on the look and feel of user interfaces, most notably by Apple Computer against Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard (which Apple lost) and, later, by Xerox against Apple Computer. Such legal action attempts to force suppliers to make their interfaces inconsistent with those of other vendors' products. This can only be bad for users and the industry as a whole.
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