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13-letter words containing a, l, f, e

  • law of effect — another name for Thorndike's law
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • liquefacients — Plural form of liquefacient.
  • liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
  • little alfold — a plain in NW Hungary and S Slovakia.
  • 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.
  • loose forward — one of a number of forwards who play at the back or sides of the scrum and who are not bound wholly into it
  • lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
  • lucifer match — friction match.
  • madder family — the large plant family Rubiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs having simple, opposite, or whorled leaves, usually four- or five-lobed flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry, capsule, or nut, and including the gardenia, madder, partridgeberry, and shrubs and trees that are the source of coffee, ipecac, and quinine.
  • magnetic flux — the total magnetic induction crossing a surface, equal to the integral of the component of magnetic induction perpendicular to the surface over the surface: usually measured in webers or maxwells.
  • magnificently — making a splendid appearance or show; of exceptional beauty, size, etc.: a magnificent cathedral; magnificent scenery.
  • make light of — of little weight; not heavy: a light load.
  • malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
  • mammaliferous — containing the remains of mammals
  • marsh trefoil — buck bean.
  • mass affluent — the large number of individuals with liquid assets of around £250,000
  • masterfulness — The quality of being masterful.
  • materfamilias — the mother of a family.
  • matter of law — an issue or matter to be determined according to the relevant principles of law.
  • mellification — the production of honey from nectar
  • merchant flag — the ensign used by all ships engaged in commerce, fishing, etc.
  • metabisulfite — (inorganic chemistry) The oxyanion of sulfur S2O52- or any salt containing this ion.
  • metafictional — Of, relating to, or being metafiction.
  • metal fatigue — a weakening and breaking of metal due to it bending and flexing
  • metalcrafting — metalworking.
  • metalliferous — containing or yielding metal.
  • methylsulfate — a colorless or yellow, slightly water-soluble, poisonous liquid, (CH 3) 2 SO 2 , used chiefly in organic synthesis.
  • microfilament — a minute, narrow tubelike cell structure composed of a protein similar to actin, occurring singly and in bundles, involved in cytoplasmic movement and changes in cell shape.
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