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18-letter words containing e, f, l

  • to pull a fast one — If you say that someone has pulled a fast one on you, you mean that they have cheated or tricked you.
  • to save one's life — If you say that someone cannot do something to save their life, you are emphasizing that they do it very badly.
  • too clever by half — If someone is too clever by half, they are very clever and they show their cleverness in a way that annoys other people.
  • traffic controller — a person whose job is to control the flow of air traffic
  • triangle of forces — a triangle whose sides represent the magnitudes and directions of three forces whose resultant is zero and which are therefore in equilibrium
  • tufted loosestrife — a primulaceous plant Naumburgia thyrsiflora
  • turn in on oneself — to withdraw or cause to withdraw from contact with others and become preoccupied with one's own problems
  • ultralow frequency — an electromagnetic wave with a frequency between 300 and 3000 hertz. Abbreviation: ULF, ulf.
  • ultraviolet filter — a filter used on a lens to absorb ultraviolet radiation that may impart an undesirable blue cast to a photograph.
  • universal suffrage — suffrage for all persons over a certain age, usually 18 or 21, who in other respects satisfy the requirements established by law.
  • university faculty — a division within a university comprising one subject area, or a number of related subject areas
  • ur of the chaldees — the city where Abraham was born, sometimes identified with the Sumerian city of Ur. Gen. 11:28, 31; 15:7; Neh. 9:7.
  • uriniferous tubule — a urine-bearing tubule in a nephron of a kidney.
  • vermilion rockfish — a scarlet-red rockfish, Sebastes miniatus, inhabiting waters along the Pacific coast of North America, important as a food fish.
  • very low frequency — any frequency between 3 and 30 kilohertz. Abbreviation: VLF.
  • vicar of wakefield — a novel (1766) by Goldsmith.
  • weak nuclear force — weak interaction
  • where you left off — If something continues from where it left off, it starts happening again at the point where it had previously stopped.
  • wild passionflower — the maypop, Passiflora incarnata.
  • wildlife programme — (esp on television) a documentary whose subject is wild animals in their natural habitat or undomesticated fauna and flora generally
  • wildlife sanctuary — an area where wild animals and plants are protected
  • witch hazel family — the plant family Hamamelidaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having alternate, simple leaves, flowers in clusters or heads, and fruit in the form of a double-beaked woody capsule, and including the sweet gum, witch alder, and witch hazel.
  • woman of the world — a woman experienced and sophisticated in the ways and manners of the world, especially the world of society.
  • world of one's own — a state of mental detachment from other people
  • xenon hexafluoride — a colorless, crystalline compound, XeF 6 , that melts at 50°C to a yellow liquid, and boils at 75°C.
  • yelloweye rockfish — a red rockfish, Sebastes ruberrimus, of waters along the Pacific coast of North America, having eyes that are yellow and possessed of strong, sawlike bony ridges on the head.
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