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18-letter words containing f, e, t, i

  • in complete flower — a flower without one or more of the normal parts, as carpels, sepals, petals, pistils, or stamens.
  • in the affirmative — positively, by saying yes
  • in the belief that — If you do one thing in the belief that another thing is true or will happen, you do it because you think, usually wrongly, that it is true or will happen.
  • in the face of sth — If you take a particular action or attitude in the face of a problem or difficulty, you respond to that problem or difficulty in that way.
  • in the first place — firstly
  • in the grip of sth — If a person, group, or place is in the grip of something, they are being severely affected by it.
  • in the interest of — the feeling of a person whose attention, concern, or curiosity is particularly engaged by something: She has a great interest in the poetry of Donne.
  • in the mood for/to — If you say that you are in the mood for something, you mean that you want to do it or have it. If you say that you are in no mood to do something, you mean that you do not want to do it or have it.
  • in the name of sth — If you do something in the name of an ideal or an abstract thing, you do it in order to preserve or promote that thing.
  • in the near future — soon
  • in the vicinity of — near to, in the area around
  • incapacity benefit — (in Britain) a regular government payment made to people who are unable to work for an extended period through disability
  • indefinite article — an article, as English a, an, that denotes class membership of the noun it modifies without particularizing it.
  • indefinite pronoun — a pronoun, as English some, any, somebody, that leaves unspecified the identity of its referent.
  • indirect free kick — a free kick from which a goal cannot be scored until after the ball has been touched by at least one player other than the kicker.
  • infectious disease — illness spread by person to person
  • infertility clinic — a clinic which helps people who are having problems conceiving
  • information bureau — an office where you can go to get information
  • information centre — help desk, office
  • information office — an office where you can go to get information
  • information system — a computer system or set of components for collecting, creating, storing, processing, and distributing information, typically including hardware and software, system users, and the data itself: the use of information systems to solve business problems.
  • information theory — the mathematical theory concerned with the content, transmission, storage, and retrieval of information, usually in the form of messages or data, and especially by means of computers.
  • informatory double — a double intended to inform one's partner that one has a strong hand and to urge a bid regardless of the strength of his or her hand.
  • infrared astronomy — the study of infrared radiation emitted by celestial objects.
  • inspector of taxes — an official of HMRC whose work is to assess individuals' income tax liability
  • integrating factor — a factor that upon multiplying a differential equation with the right-hand side equal to zero makes the equation integrable, usually by making the resulting expression an exact differential of some function.
  • interface analysis — (testing)   A software test which checks the interfaces between program elements for consistency and adherence to predefined rules or axioms.
  • intermittent fever — a malarial fever in which feverish periods lasting a few hours alternate with periods in which the temperature is normal.
  • internet of things — a network of everyday devices, appliances, and other objects equipped with computer chips and sensors that can collect and transmit data through the Internet. Abbreviation: IoT.
  • invalidity benefit — (formerly, in the British National Insurance scheme) a weekly payment to a person who had been off work through illness for more than six months: replaced by incapacity benefit in 1995
  • joint life annuity — an annuity, the payments of which cease at the death of the first of two or more specified persons.
  • king of the castle — most powerful figure
  • king of the forest — the oak tree.
  • king-of-the-salmon — a ribbonfish, Trachypterus altivelis, of northern parts of the Pacific Ocean.
  • knight of the bath — a member of a knightly order founded by George I of England in 1725.
  • knight of the road — a tramp
  • law of segregation — the principle, originated by Gregor Mendel, stating that during the production of gametes the two copies of each hereditary factor segregate so that offspring acquire one factor from each parent.
  • lean manufacturing — efficiency in the production of goods
  • let oneself in for — If you say that you did not know what you were letting yourself in for when you decided to do something, you mean you did not realize how difficult, unpleasant, or expensive it was going to be.
  • lifestyle business — a small business in which the owner is more anxious to pursue interests that reflect his or her lifestyle than to make more than a comfortable living
  • lily of the valley — a plant, Convallaria majalis, having an elongated cluster of small, drooping, bell-shaped, fragrant white flowers.
  • lives of the poets — a collection (1779–81), by Samuel Johnson, of biographical and critical essays on 52 English poets.
  • locally finite set — a collection of sets in a topological space in which each point of the space has a neighborhood that intersects a finite number of sets of the collection.
  • logical shift left — logical shift
  • lone-parent family — a family in which there is only one parent
  • loosestrife family — the plant family Lythraceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having usually opposite or whorled, simple leaves, clusters of flowers, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the crape myrtle, loosestrifes of the genus Lythrum, and the henna shrub.
  • lord chief justice — the presiding judge of Britain's High Court of Justice, the superior court of record for both criminal and civil cases.
  • magnetic amplifier — an amplifier that applies the input signal to a primary winding and feeds an alternating current to a secondary winding where this current is modulated by the variations in the primary winding.
  • make a night of it — to cause an activity to last a night
  • make a practice of — be in the habit of
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