13-letter words containing f, e, a, r, l
- ginger family — the plant family Zingiberaceae, characterized by tropical, often aromatic herbaceous plants having rhizomes, long sheathing leaves, and clusters of tubular flowers, and including cardamon, ginger, and turmeric.
- glove factory — a factory where gloves are made
- grandfatherly — of or characteristic of a grandfather.
- granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
- hair follicle — a small cavity in the epidermis and corium of the skin, from which a hair develops.
- half measures — inadequate measures or actions
- half-deserted — (of a place) not having many inhabitants, visitors, etc
- half-integral — noting or pertaining to a fractional number obtained by dividing an odd integer by two, as 1/2.
- half-quartern — a loaf having a weight, when baked, of 800 g
- 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.
- hall of famer — a person who has been accepted into a Hall of Fame.
- 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.
- heart failure — a condition in which the heart fatally ceases to function.
- heart of palm — the stripped terminal bud of a cabbage palm, especially of the genus Euterpe, eaten in salads or as a vegetable.
- heartfeltness — The state or quality of being heartfelt.
- hefner candle — a German unit of luminous intensity, equal to 0.92 of a candela.
- 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
- inconformable — Obsolete form of unconformable.
- inferentially — of, pertaining to, by, or dependent upon inference.
- inferolateral — (anatomy) Both inferior and lateral.
- informal vote — an invalid vote or ballot
- informalities — Plural form of informality.
- informatively — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- informercials — Plural form of informercial.
- interfaceable — Capable of being interfaced.
- interfamilial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a family: familial ties.
- intolerant of — not able or willing to tolerate
- irrefrangible — not to be broken or violated; inviolable: an irrefrangible rule of etiquette.
- isle of capri — Capri.
- labor of love — work done for the sake of one's own enjoyment or of benefit to others rather than for material rewards: He coached amateur baseball teams as a labor of love.
- laissez-faire — of, relating to, or conforming to the principles or practices of laissez faire.
- landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
- laurel family — the plant family Lauraceae, characterized by evergreen or deciduous trees having simple, leathery leaves, aromatic bark and foliage, clusters of small green or yellow flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or drupe, and including the avocado, bay, laurels of the genera Laurus and Umbellularia, sassafras, spicebush (Lindera benzoin), and the trees that yield camphor and cinnamon.
- law of nature — an empirical truth of great generality, conceived of as a physical (but not a logical) necessity, and consequently licensing counterfactual conditionals
- leafleteering — The printing and distribution of leaflets, especially as propaganda.
- leap-frogging — a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
- 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.
- lethal factor — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
- liebfraumilch — a white wine produced chiefly in the region of Hesse in Germany.
- life-or-death — life-and-death.
- lift a finger — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- 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
- lucifer match — friction match.
- 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.
- mammaliferous — containing the remains of mammals