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13-letter words containing f, e, l

  • reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
  • reflectometer — a device for measuring reflectance.
  • reflectometry — the study or science of reflectometer usage and design
  • reflex camera — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
  • reflex-action — Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
  • reflexiveness — Grammar. (of a verb) taking a subject and object with identical referents, as shave in I shave myself. (of a pronoun) used as an object to refer to the subject of a verb, as myself in I shave myself.
  • refocillation — the restoring of strength by refreshment or revivement
  • reform school — reformatory (def 2).
  • reformability — the extent to which something or someone is reformable; the capability or susceptibility to reform
  • reformulation — to formulate again.
  • refundability — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
  • regardless of — in spite of
  • reinforceable — capable of being reinforced
  • relief agency — an organization that provides aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
  • relief troops — soldiers sent to an area of conflict or a disaster area in order to provide aid or assistance there
  • relief worker — a person who works for a charity providing aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
  • renal failure — a condition in which the kidneys fail to function adequately
  • reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
  • reptiliferous — (of rocks, etc) yielding fossilized reptiles
  • retrofittable — to modify equipment (in airplanes, automobiles, a factory, etc.) that is already in service using parts developed or made available after the time of original manufacture.
  • retroflection — a bending backward.
  • return flight — a flight going back
  • reversal film — film developed by the reversal process.
  • reverse fault — a fault in which the rock above the fault plane is displaced upward relative to the rock below the fault plane (opposed to gravity fault).
  • rifle grenade — a grenade designed to be fired from a grenade launcher attached to the muzzle of a rifle or carbine.
  • right fielder — the player whose position is right field.
  • right to life — When people talk about an unborn baby's right to life, they mean that a baby has the right to be born, even if it has a severe disability or if its mother does not want it.
  • right-to-life — pertaining to or advocating laws making abortion, especially abortion-on-demand, illegal; antiabortion: right-to-life advocates.
  • ripple effect — a spreading effect or series of consequences caused by a single action or event.
  • robert fulton — Robert, 1765–1815, U.S. engineer and inventor: builder of the first profitable steamboat.
  • role conflict — emotional conflict arising when competing demands are made on an individual in the fulfillment of his or her multiple social roles.
  • rouse oneself — to become active or energetic
  • rule of three — the method of finding the fourth term in a proportion when three terms are given.
  • rule of thumb — a general or approximate principle, procedure, or rule based on experience or practice, as opposed to a specific, scientific calculation or estimate.
  • ruled surface — a surface that can be generated by a straight line, as a cylinder or cone.
  • sacrifice fly — a fly ball when there are fewer than two players out that enables a base runner, usually at third base, to score after the ball is caught.
  • saddle oxford — saddle shoe.
  • safety helmet — protective hard hat
  • safety island — an area provided for the safety of pedestrians from vehicular traffic, as between lanes on a busy street or highway.
  • safety lintel — an auxiliary lintel concealed behind a visible lintel, arch, etc.
  • safflower oil — an oil expressed or extracted fromsafflower seeds, used in cooking, as a salad oil, and as a vehicle for medicines, paints, varnishes, etc.
  • sales figures — the amount of sales of something within a particular time frame
  • sales leaflet — a leaflet or brochure used by a company to promote its goods, products, or services to the public
  • san ildefonso — a town in central Spain, near Segovia: termed the “Spanish Versailles” for its 18th-century palace (La Granja) treaty 1800.
  • sandfly fever — a usually mild viral disease occurring in hot, dry areas, characterized by fever, eye pain, and sometimes a rash, transmitted by sandflies of the genus Phlebotomus.
  • scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
  • scarlet fever — a contagious febrile disease caused by streptococci and characterized by a scarlet eruption.
  • scathefulness — the state or quality of being harmful or injurious
  • school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
  • school friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
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