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15-letter words containing a, f, l

  • lay of the land — the general state or condition of affairs under consideration; the facts of a situation: We asked a few questions to get the lay of the land.
  • lay oneself out — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
  • leadwort family — the plant family Plumbaginaceae, characterized by shrubs and herbaceous plants of seacoasts and semiarid regions, having basal or alternate leaves, spikelike clusters of tubular flowers, and dry, one-seeded fruit, and including leadwort, sea lavender, statice, and thrift.
  • leaf primordium — a group of cells that will develop into a leaf, seen as small bulges just below the shoot apex.
  • leaf-footed bug — any of numerous plant-sucking or predaceous bugs of the family Coreidae, typically having leaflike legs: several species are pests of food crops.
  • league football — rugby league football
  • leapfrog attack — Use of userid and password information obtained illicitly from one host (e.g. downloading a file of account IDs and passwords, tapping TELNET, etc.) to compromise another host. Also, the act of TELNETting through one or more hosts in order to confuse a trace (a standard cracker procedure).
  • least killifish — a fish, Heterandria formosa, of coastal swamps from South Carolina to Florida, that feeds on mosquito larvae.
  • leave the field — to back out of a competition, contest, etc
  • leaves of grass — a book of poems (first edition, 1855; final edition, 1891–92) by Walt Whitman.
  • left-hand drive — A left-hand drive vehicle has the steering wheel on the left side, and is designed to be used in countries where people drive on the right-hand side of the road.
  • legacy software — legacy system
  • liaison officer — a person who liaises between groups or units
  • lichenification — a leathery hardening of the skin, usually caused by chronic irritation.
  • lie of the land — the topography of the land
  • life expectancy — the probable number of years remaining in the life of an individual or class of persons determined statistically, affected by such factors as heredity, physical condition, nutrition, and occupation.
  • lift-drag ratio — the ratio of the lift to the drag of an airfoil.
  • limiting factor — Physiology. the slowest, therefore rate-limiting, step in a process or reaction involving several steps.
  • line of apsides — a line joining the lower and higher apsides, forming the major axis of the orbit
  • linear function — linear transformation.
  • linear manifold — subspace (def 2b).
  • liquid paraffin — a colourless almost tasteless oily liquid obtained by petroleum distillation and used as a laxative
  • loaded for bear — any of the plantigrade, carnivorous or omnivorous mammals of the family Ursidae, having massive bodies, coarse heavy fur, relatively short limbs, and almost rudimentary tails.
  • lofoten islands — group of Norwegian islands within the Arctic Circle, off the NW coast of Norway: c. 550 sq mi (1,424 sq km)
  • long-sufferance — long-suffering.
  • look forward to — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
  • louis of nassau — 1538–74, a leader (1568–74) of the revolt of the Netherlands against Spain: died in battle
  • low pass filter — (electronics, graphics)   A filter that attenuates high frequency components of a signal. In image processing, a low pass filter might be used to remove noise from an image.
  • low-pass filter — a filter that transmits all frequencies below a specified value, substantially attenuating frequencies above this value
  • magnolia family — the plant family Magnoliaceae, characterized by evergreen or deciduous trees and shrubs having simple, alternate leaves, often showy flowers with a spiral arrangement of their floral parts, and conelike fruit, and including the cucumber tree, magnolia, tulip tree, and umbrella tree.
  • mahogany family — the plant family Meliaceae, characterized by tropical and subtropical trees and shrubs having alternate, pinnate leaves, usually branched clusters of flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or leathery capsule, and including the chinaberry, cedars of the genus Cedrela, and mahoganies of the genera Swietenia and Khaya.
  • maid of orléans — Saint ("the Maid of Orléans") 1412?–31, French national heroine and martyr who raised the siege of Orléans.
  • mail order firm — a company that sells goods by mail order
  • make a play for — to act the part of (a person or character) in a dramatic performance; portray: to play Lady Macbeth.
  • make capital of — to get advantage from
  • malconformation — Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; disproportion of parts.
  • malpighian tuft — glomerulus (def 2).
  • medal for merit — a medal awarded by the U.S. to a civilian for distinguished service to the country: discontinued after World War II.
  • medical officer — a doctor of medicine who serves in the armed forces in a medical capacity
  • menomonee falls — a city in SE Wisconsin, NW of Milwaukee.
  • mezzanine floor — intermediate level in a building
  • michael faraday — Michael, 1791–1867, English physicist and chemist: discoverer of electromagnetic induction.
  • microfiltration — Filtration through a microporous membrane.
  • milk of almonds — almond milk.
  • milkweed family — the plant family Asclepiadaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and vines having simple, opposite or whorled leaves, usually milky juice, umbellike clusters of small flowers, and long pods that split open to release tufted, airborne seeds, and including the anglepod, butterfly weed, milkweed, stephanotis, and wax plant.
  • moccasin flower — the lady's-slipper.
  • molecular knife — a segment of genetic material that inhibits the reproduction of the AIDS virus by breaking up specific areas of the virus's genes.
  • mortgage relief — (formerly) a reduction of tax on income being used to pay off a mortgage
  • mother of pearl — a hard, iridescent substance that forms the inner layer of certain mollusk shells, used for making buttons, beads, etc.; nacre.
  • mother-of-pearl — a hard, iridescent substance that forms the inner layer of certain mollusk shells, used for making buttons, beads, etc.; nacre.
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