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

  • half-finished — ended or completed.
  • half-silvered — (of a mirror) having an incomplete reflective coating, so that half the incident light is reflected and half transmitted: used in optical instruments and two-way mirrors
  • half-timbered — (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.
  • halfheartedly — Without enthusiasm nor interest.
  • 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.
  • hefner candle — a German unit of luminous intensity, equal to 0.92 of a candela.
  • high fidelity — sound reproduction over the full range of audible frequencies with very little distortion of the original signal.
  • hold the fort — a strong or fortified place occupied by troops and usually surrounded by walls, ditches, and other defensive works; a fortress; fortification.
  • hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
  • hyperinflated — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
  • ile de france — a former province in N France, including Paris and the region around it.
  • Île-de-france — a region of N France, in the Paris Basin: part of the duchy of France in the 10th century
  • in default of — If something happens in default of something else, it happens because that other thing does not happen or proves to be impossible.
  • indefatigable — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
  • indefatigably — In an extremely persistent and untiring manner; in an indefatigable manner.
  • indemnifiable — Something suitable for indemnification.
  • indifferently — without interest or concern; not caring; apathetic: his indifferent attitude toward the suffering of others.
  • infundibulate — Shaped like a funnel; infundibulated or infundibular.
  • landfill site — also landfill
  • 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.
  • latent defect — hidden fault, undiscovered flaw
  • life-or-death — life-and-death.
  • 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.
  • lighter fluid — a combustible fluid used in cigarette, cigar, and pipe lighters.
  • 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.
  • lines of code — (programming, unit)   (LOC) A common measure of the size or progress of a programming project. For example, one can describe a completed project as consisting of 100,000 LOC; or one can characterise a week's progress as 5000 LOC. Using LOC as a metric of progress encourages programmers to reinvent the wheel or split their code into lots of short lines.
  • little alfold — a plain in NW Hungary and S Slovakia.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
  • middle finger — the finger between the forefinger and the third finger.
  • middle french — the French language of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. Abbreviation: MF.
  • midriff bulge — a roll of fat around your midriff
  • milford haven — a bay in SW Wales.
  • misclassified — to arrange or organize by classes; order according to class.
  • moll flanders — (The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders) a novel (1722) by Daniel Defoe.
  • multi-faceted — having many facets, as a gem.
  • multiramified — having several branches or branchlike parts
  • new fairfield — a town in SW Connecticut.
  • nimble-footed — able to move the feet agilely and neatly
  • non-inflected — to modulate (the voice).
  • nonaffiliated — being in close formal or informal association; related: a letter sent to all affiliated clubs; a radio network and its affiliated local stations.
  • nonclassified — arranged or distributed in classes or according to class: We plan to review all the classified specimens in the laboratory.
  • nondeferrable — Not deferrable.
  • nondiffusible — not diffusible
  • nonfraudulent — Not fraudulent.
  • nonrefundable — an amount refunded.
  • odoriferously — In an odoriferous manner.
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