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13-letter words containing f, e, l

  • liebfraumilch — a white wine produced chiefly in the region of Hesse in Germany.
  • life instinct — suicidal tendency or inclination; predisposition to self-destruction.
  • life interest — interest on property that is payable during the owner's lifetime but cannot be passed on to another or others after his or her death.
  • life is cheap — You use life is cheap or life has become cheap to refer to a situation in which nobody cares that large numbers of people are dying.
  • life of riley — a carefree, comfortable, and thoroughly enjoyable way of living: Since winning the lottery, he's led the life of Riley.
  • life sentence — a sentence condemning a convicted felon to spend the rest of his or her life in prison.
  • life-changing — having major impact on sb
  • 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.
  • lifted domain — (theory)   In domain theory, a domain with a new bottom element added. Given a domain D, the lifted domain, lift D contains an element lift d corresponding to each element d in D with the same ordering as in D and a new element bottom which is less than every other element in lift D. In functional languages, a lifted domain can be used to model a constructed type, e.g. the type data LiftedInt = K Int contains the values K minint .. K maxint and K bottom, corresponding to the values in Int, and a new value bottom. This denotes the fact that when computing a value v = (K n) the computation of either n or v may fail to terminate yielding the values (K bottom) or bottom respectively. (In LaTeX, a lifted domain or element is indicated by a subscript \perp). See also tuple.
  • lighter flint — the small piece of flint in a lighter pressure on which creates a spark that ignites the fuel
  • lighter fluid — a combustible fluid used in cigarette, cigar, and pipe lighters.
  • lightfastness — The quality of being lightfast.
  • like-for-like — (of a comparison, figures, statistics) that measure identical things, the same period in different years, etc
  • linden family — the plant family Tiliaceae, characterized by deciduous trees or shrubs having simple, usually alternate leaves, fibrous bark, fragrant flowers, and dry, woody fruit, and including the basswood, jute, and linden.
  • line of force — an imaginary line representing a field of force, such as an electric or magnetic field, such that the tangent at any point is the direction of the field vector at that point
  • 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.
  • lingayen gulf — a gulf in the Philippines, on the NW coast of Luzon.
  • liquefacients — Plural form of liquefacient.
  • liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
  • little alfold — a plain in NW Hungary and S Slovakia.
  • little finger — the finger farthest from the thumb, the smallest of the five fingers.
  • little office — (sometimes initial capital letters) Roman Catholic Church. an office similar to but shorter than the divine office, in honor of a saint, a mystery, or, especially, the Virgin Mary.
  • lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).
  • longleaf pine — an American pine, Pinus palustris, valued as a source of turpentine and for its timber.
  • longsuffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
  • look and feel — (operating system)   The appearance and function of a program's user interface. The term is most often applied to graphical user interfaces (GUI) but might also be used by extension for a textual command language used to control a program. Look and feel includes such things as the icons used to represent certain functions such as opening and closing files, directories and application programs and changing the size and position of windows; conventions for the meaning of different buttons on a mouse and keys on the keyboard; and the appearance and operation of menus. A user interface with a consistent look and feel is considered by many to be an important factor in the ease of use of a computer system. The success of the Macintosh user interface was partly due to its consistency. Because of the perceived importance of look and feel, there have been several legal actions claiming breech of copyright on the look and feel of user interfaces, most notably by Apple Computer against Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard (which Apple lost) and, later, by Xerox against Apple Computer. Such legal action attempts to force suppliers to make their interfaces inconsistent with those of other vendors' products. This can only be bad for users and the industry as a whole.
  • loop of henle — the part of a nephron between the proximal and distal convoluted tubules that extends, in a loop, from the cortex into the medulla of the kidney.
  • 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.
  • lorentz force — the force on a charged particle moving through a region containing both electric and magnetic fields.
  • lose sight of — no longer see
  • lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
  • love for love — a comedy (1695) by William Congreve.
  • low frequency — any frequency between 30 and 300 kilohertz. Abbreviation: LF.
  • 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.
  • magnetic flux — the total magnetic induction crossing a surface, equal to the integral of the component of magnetic induction perpendicular to the surface over the surface: usually measured in webers or maxwells.
  • magnificently — making a splendid appearance or show; of exceptional beauty, size, etc.: a magnificent cathedral; magnificent scenery.
  • make light of — of little weight; not heavy: a light load.
  • malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
  • mammaliferous — containing the remains of mammals
  • marsh trefoil — buck bean.
  • mass affluent — the large number of individuals with liquid assets of around £250,000
  • masterfulness — The quality of being masterful.
  • materfamilias — the mother of a family.
  • matter of law — an issue or matter to be determined according to the relevant principles of law.
  • mellification — the production of honey from nectar
  • mellifluously — sweetly or smoothly flowing; sweet-sounding: a mellifluous voice; mellifluous tones.
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