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13-letter words containing e, l, p

  • extracapsular — (anatomy) Situated outside a capsule, especially outside the capsular ligament of a joint.
  • extraparticle — Extraparticle means relating to processes that happen outside the particles in a bed.
  • extrapersonal — Outside of a person; beyond what is personal or individual.
  • extrapolating — Present participle of extrapolate.
  • extrapolation — (mathematics) A calculation of an estimate of the value of some function outside the range of known values.
  • extrapolative — That serves to extrapolate.
  • extratropical — Occurring outside the tropics, usually in temperate latitudes.
  • extremophiles — Plural form of extremophile.
  • fairy-slipper — Calypso (def 2).
  • false vampire — any large, carnivorous bat of the families Megadermatidae and Phyllostomatidae, of Africa, Asia, and Australia, erroneously reputed to suck the blood of animals and humans.
  • fanfold paper — continuous paper perforated at regular intervals, as used in a dot-matrix printer
  • fashion plate — a person who consistently wears the latest style in dress.
  • fee-splitting — the practice of dividing a fee for professional services between two professional persons, as between a referring doctor and a specialist, without the knowledge of the client.
  • feedback loop — the path by which some of the output of a circuit, system, or device is returned to the input.
  • feldspathoids — Plural form of feldspathoid.
  • fellowshiping — Present participle of fellowship.
  • fellowshipped — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
  • field captain — a member of a team taking active part in a game who is authorized to make decisions for the team, especially in regard to planning plays, deciding whether to accept penalties called by an official against the opponents, etc.
  • field spaniel — one of a British breed of spaniels having a flat or slightly waved, usually black coat, used for hunting and retrieving game.
  • field sparrow — a common North American finch, Spizella pusilla, found in brushy pasturelands.
  • fieldstripped — Simple past tense and past participle of fieldstrip.
  • fighter pilot — sb who pilots a bomber plane
  • filipendulous — Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.
  • film première — the first performance of a particular film in a cinema
  • filmographies — Plural form of filmography.
  • first peoples — any of the indigenous peoples or Indian communities of Canada, especially one formally recognized by the Canadian government.
  • fixed capital — capital goods, as machinery and tools, that are relatively durable and can be used repeatedly in the production of goods.
  • flameproofing — Present participle of flameproof.
  • flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
  • flatbed press — a printing machine on which the type forme is carried on a flat bed under a revolving paper-bearing cylinder
  • flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
  • flesh peddler — a prostitute.
  • flesh-peddler — an employment agent or agency, especially one that recruits executives.
  • flower people — (esp during the 1960s) young people whose behaviour, dress, use of drugs, etc implied a rejection of conventional values, and who used flowers to symbolize peace and naturalness
  • flower-pecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
  • flunitrazepam — a powerful benzodiazepine sedative, C 16 H 12 FN 3 O 3 , that causes semiconsciousness and memory blackouts: has been implicated in date rapes and is illegal in the U.S.
  • fluophosphate — fluorophosphate.
  • flying picket — (in industrial disputes) a member of a group of pickets organized to be able to move quickly from place to place
  • folded dipole — a type of aerial, widely used with television and VHF radio receivers, consisting of two parallel dipoles connected together at their outer ends and fed at the centre of one of them. The length is usually half the operating wavelength
  • folding press — a fall in wrestling won by folding one's opponent's legs up to his head and pressing his shoulders to the floor
  • foliage plant — any plant grown chiefly for its attractive leaves.
  • food supplies — food obtained for a household or for a country, an expedition, etc
  • fore clipping — a word formed by omitting the first part of the form from which it is derived.
  • fort campbell — a military reservation in SW Kentucky and NW Tennessee, NW of Clarksville, Tenn., and SW of Hopkinsville, Ky.
  • foul-tempered — frequently and unnecessarily sullen or angry
  • fowling piece — a shotgun for shooting wildfowl.
  • free enthalpy — a thermodynamic property of a system equal to the difference between its enthalpy and the product of its temperature and its entropy. It is usually measured in joules
  • freight plane — an aeroplane used to transport goods
  • french polish — French polish is a type of varnish which is painted onto wood so that the wood has a hard shiny surface.
  • french-polish — to finish or treat (a piece of furniture) with French polish.
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