13-letter words containing a, s, f
- inefficacious — not able to produce the desired effect; ineffective.
- infallibilism — the principle of papal infallibility
- infant school — In Britain, an infant school is a school for children between the ages of five and seven.
- infeasibility — not feasible; impracticable.
- infiltrations — Plural form of infiltration.
- infinitesimal — indefinitely or exceedingly small; minute: infinitesimal vessels in the circulatory system.
- inflammations — Plural form of inflammation.
- infomediaries — Plural form of infomediary.
- informalities — Plural form of informality.
- informercials — Plural form of informercial.
- infraposition — A situation or position beneath.
- infrared star — a star radiating strongly in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- infrascapular — (anatomy) Beneath the scapula.
- infraspecific — of or relating to a subdivision of a species, as a subspecies, variety, or cultivar.
- insignificant — unimportant, trifling, or petty: Omit the insignificant details.
- interstratify — to lie in interposed or alternate strata.
- intraspecific — existing or occurring within a species.
- islamofascism — an ideology promoted by some Islamists, the aims of which are to establish Islamic orthodoxy and to resist western secularism
- isle of capri — Capri.
- jacob's staff — Astronomy. cross-staff.
- japanese wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus hodophylax, of Japan.
- jefferson day — April 13, Thomas Jefferson's birthday, a legal holiday in Alabama, sometimes celebrated by the Democratic Party by the holding of fund-raising dinners.
- justification — a reason, fact, circumstance, or explanation that justifies or defends: His insulting you was ample justification for you to leave the party.
- justificative — Justificatory.
- justificatory — serving to justify; providing justification.
- 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.
- kiss of death — a fatal or destructive relationship or action: The support of the outlawed group was the kiss of death to the candidate.
- kiss of peace — (in certain Christian churches) a ceremonial greeting or embrace given as a token of Christian love and unity.
- klamath falls — a city in SW Oregon.
- kraft process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an alkaline liquor consisting chiefly of caustic soda together with sodium sulfate.
- laissez-faire — of, relating to, or conforming to the principles or practices of laissez faire.
- landfill site — also landfill
- landsmanshaft — a fraternal organization made up of immigrants from the same region.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- lightfastness — The quality of being lightfast.
- liquefacients — Plural form of liquefacient.
- liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
- 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.
- 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
- lump of sugar — lump1 (def 4).
- magnesiferous — (geology) Containing magnesium.
- magnetiferous — (dated) Producing or conducting magnetism.
- magnus effect — the thrust on a cylinder rotating about its axis while in motion in a fluid, the thrust being perpendicular to the relative motion of the cylinder in the fluid.
- make mischief — cause trouble
- make sport of — to mock or ridicule; poke fun at