12-letter words containing f, a, i, r
- isapi filter — (web) A replaceable DLL which the server calls whenever there is an HTTP request. When the filter is first loaded, it communicates to the server what sort of notifications will be accepted. After that, whenever a selected event occurs, the filter is called to process the event. Example applications of ISAPI filters include custom authentication schemes, compression, encryption, logging, traffic analysis or other request analyses.
- jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
- jeffersonian — pertaining to or advocating the political principles and doctrines of Thomas Jefferson, especially those stressing minimum control by the central government, the inalienable rights of the individual, and the superiority of an agrarian economy and rural society.
- jet aircraft — A jet aircraft is an aircraft that is powered by one or more jet engines.
- juiz de fora — a city in SE Brazil, N of Rio de Janeiro.
- king-of-arms — a title of certain of the principal heralds of England and certain other kingdoms empowered by their sovereigns to grant armorial bearings.
- korsakoffian — relating to or suffering from Korsakoff's psychosis
- krafft-ebing — Richard [rich-erd;; German rikh-ahrt] /ˈrɪtʃ ərd;; German ˈrɪx ɑrt/ (Show IPA), Baron von, 1840–1902, German neurologist and author of works on sexual pathology.
- lachrymiform — Shaped like a teardrop.
- laminar flow — the flow of a viscous fluid in which particles of the fluid move in parallel layers, each of which has a constant velocity but is in motion relative to its neighboring layers.
- lantern fish — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Myctophidae, having rows of luminous organs along each side, certain species of which migrate to the surface at night.
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- leaf-climber — a plant that climbs by using leaves specialized as tendrils
- leapfrogging — Present participle of leapfrog.
- left-brained — having the left brain dominant, therefore being more adept at logic, calculation, language, and other thought processes or skills usually associated with the left brain.
- life drawing — drawing objects or people from life
- life partner — one member of a monogamous relationship.
- life peerage — the title and rank of a life peer
- lifestreamer — a person who provides an online record of his or her life, either by means of live video footage or via an online collection of social network updates, blogs, and photos
- ligulifloral — having strap-shaped flowers
- live in fear — You can use expressions such as to live in fear and to live in terror to indicate that someone is always thinking about an unpleasant or frightening event, because they think that it might happen.
- loan officer — a bank employee who helps would-be borrowers get a loan
- logical form — the syntactic structure that may be shared by different expressions as abstracted from their content and articulated by the logical constants of a particular logical system, esp the structure of an argument by virtue of which it can be shown to be formally valid. Thus John is tall and thin, so John is tall has the same logical form as London is large and dirty, so London is large, namely P & Q, so P
- loriciferans — Plural form of loriciferan.
- lovecraftian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American fantasy and horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft (1870–1937)
- lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
- macrofossils — Plural form of macrofossil.
- make friends — get to know people
- malformation — faulty or anomalous formation or structure, especially in a living body: malformation of the teeth.
- married life — living as sb's spouse
- microfilaria — the embryonic larva of the nematode parasite Filaria or of related genera, especially of those species that cause heartworm in dogs and elephantiasis in humans.
- microfinance — (finance) Finance that is provided to unemployed or low-income people or groups.
- midafternoon — the part of the afternoon centering approximately on three o'clock; the period approximately halfway between noon and sunset.
- misfeaturing — distorting the features
- misformation — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
- misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
- modificatory — modifying.
- mud filtrate — Mud filtrate is the liquid part of the mud which can pass through a medium and become separated from the mudcake.
- multifarious — having many different parts, elements, forms, etc.
- multifractal — (mathematics) Describing a system that is fractal in multiple ways.
- multifurcate — forked; branching.
- mutessarifat — a province governed by a mutessarif
- myofibrillar — Of or pertaining to myofibrils.
- narcotraffic — Traffic in narcotics.
- neo-freudian — of or relating to a group of psychoanalytic thinkers whose modifications of Freudian analytic theory place increased emphasis on ego functions and interpersonal relationships.
- neoformation — a new and abnormal growth of tissue; tumor; neoplasm.
- neurofibroma — a benign neoplasm composed of the fibrous elements of a nerve.
- nitrate film — film stock using a base of cellulose nitrate: extremely flammable and tending to erode at a relatively early age.
- noise factor — the ratio of the noise output of an ideal device to the noise output of the unit being tested.
- nonformalism — Absence of, or a belief system that is the opposite of, formalism.