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13-letter words containing f, e, l, o, s

  • foul-smelling — having a very unpleasant smell
  • foursome reel — a lively Scottish dance for two couples who combine in square and circular formations
  • fowler's toad — an eastern U.S. toad, Bufo woodhousii fowleri, having an almost patternless white belly.
  • fractionalise — Alt form fractionalize.
  • 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.
  • frise aileron — an aircraft wing control surface designed with its leading edge extending forward of its axis of rotation so that when the aileron's trailing edge is raised the leading edge extends below the bottom surface of the wing.
  • frivolousness — characterized by lack of seriousness or sense: frivolous conduct.
  • frosted glass — etched glass with a translucent surface
  • full of beans — the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
  • functionalise — to make functional.
  • gallows frame — headframe.
  • game of skill — a game in which the outcome is determined by skill rather than by chance, as chess.
  • garrison life — the life of troops who maintain and guard a military base or fortified place
  • geminiflorous — having flowers arranged in pairs.
  • gemmuliferous — producing or reproducing by gemmules.
  • genuflections — Plural form of genuflection.
  • globuliferous — containing or producing globules.
  • gödel's proof — a proof that in a formal axiomatic system such as logic or mathematics it is impossible to prove consistency without using methods from outside the system, demonstrated by Kurt Gödel (1906–78)
  • goldie's fern — a wood fern, Dryopteris goldiana, of northeastern North America, having large, golden-green, leathery fronds with blades that tilt backward.
  • granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
  • gulf of gabès — an inlet of the Mediterranean on the E coast of Tunisia
  • halfway house — an inn or stopping place situated approximately midway between two places on a road.
  • hill of beans — something of trifling value; virtually nothing at all: The problem didn't amount to a hill of beans.
  • hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
  • if you please — expressing mild outrage
  • inflorescence — a flowering or blossoming.
  • informalities — Plural form of informality.
  • informercials — Plural form of informercial.
  • inoffensively — In an inoffensive manner.
  • isle of capri — Capri.
  • isle of pines — Isle of, former name of Youth, Isle of.
  • isle of wight — Isle of, an island off the S coast of England, forming an administrative division of Hampshire. 147 sq. mi. (381 sq. km). County seat: Newport.
  • isle of youth — Isle of, an island in the Caribbean, a special municipality in S Cuba. 1182 sq. mi. (3060 sq. km).
  • japanese wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus hodophylax, of Japan.
  • 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.
  • let off steam — a blast of air or wind: to clean machinery with a blow.
  • line of sight — Also called line of sighting. an imaginary straight line running through the aligned sights of a firearm, surveying equipment, etc.
  • 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.
  • liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
  • lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).
  • longsuffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
  • 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
  • loose-fitting — (of a garment) fitting loosely; not following the contours of the body closely.
  • lose sight of — no longer see
  • lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
  • mammaliferous — containing the remains of mammals
  • marsh trefoil — buck bean.
  • mellifluously — sweetly or smoothly flowing; sweet-sounding: a mellifluous voice; mellifluous tones.
  • metalliferous — containing or yielding metal.
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