13-letter words containing f, e, t, l
- healthfulness — conducive to health; wholesome or salutary: a healthful diet.
- 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.
- heavy lifting — hard work: A team of researchers did the heavy lifting for the author.
- helen of troy — Also called Helen of Troy. Classical Mythology. the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda and wife of Menelaus whose abduction by Paris was the cause of the Trojan War.
- help off with — If you help someone off with an item of clothing, you help them take it off.
- high fidelity — sound reproduction over the full range of audible frequencies with very little distortion of the original signal.
- hold the fort — a strong or fortified place occupied by troops and usually surrounded by walls, ditches, and other defensive works; a fortress; fortification.
- hubble effect — redshift
- hunting rifle — shotgun used to kill game
- hyperinflated — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
- impactfulness — The quality of being impactful.
- imperfectible — that cannot be perfected.
- in default of — If something happens in default of something else, it happens because that other thing does not happen or proves to be impossible.
- indefatigable — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
- indefatigably — In an extremely persistent and untiring manner; in an indefatigable manner.
- indifferently — without interest or concern; not caring; apathetic: his indifferent attitude toward the suffering of others.
- ineffectively — not effective; not producing results; ineffectual: ineffective efforts; ineffective remedies.
- ineffectually — not effectual; without satisfactory or decisive effect: an ineffectual remedy.
- inefficiently — not efficient; unable to effect or achieve the desired result with reasonable economy of means.
- infeasibility — not feasible; impracticable.
- inferentially — of, pertaining to, by, or dependent upon inference.
- inferolateral — (anatomy) Both inferior and lateral.
- infiltrometer — a device used to measure the infiltration capacity of a soil.
- infinite loop — (programming) (Or "endless loop") Where a piece of program is executed repeatedly with no hope of stopping. This is nearly always because of a bug, e.g. if the condition for exiting the loop is wrong, though it may be intentional if the program is controlling an embedded system which is supposed to run continuously until it is turned off. The programmer may also intend the program to run until interrupted by the user. An endless loop may also be used as a last-resort error handler when no other action is appropriate. This is used in some operating system kernels following a panic. A program executing an infinite loop is said to spin or buzz forever and goes catatonic. The program is "wound around the axle". A standard joke has been made about each generation's exemplar of the ultra-fast machine: "The Cray-3 is so fast it can execute an infinite loop in under 2 seconds!" See also black hole, recursion, infinite loop.
- infinitesimal — indefinitely or exceedingly small; minute: infinitesimal vessels in the circulatory system.
- inflexibility — not flexible; incapable of or resistant to being bent; rigid: an inflexible steel rod.
- influentially — having or exerting influence, especially great influence: three influential educators.
- informal vote — an invalid vote or ballot
- informalities — Plural form of informality.
- informatively — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- infundibulate — Shaped like a funnel; infundibulated or infundibular.
- interfaceable — Capable of being interfaced.
- interfamilial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a family: familial ties.
- interferingly — So as to interfere.
- intolerant of — not able or willing to tolerate
- 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).
- jellification — The process or result of jellifying.
- john fletcher — John, 1579–1625, English dramatist: collaborated with Francis Beaumont 1606?–16; with Philip Massinger 1613–25.
- kaffeeklatsch — coffee klatsch.
- landfill site — also landfill
- latent defect — hidden fault, undiscovered flaw
- law of effect — another name for Thorndike's law
- law of nature — an empirical truth of great generality, conceived of as a physical (but not a logical) necessity, and consequently licensing counterfactual conditionals
- leaf gelatine — gelatine in the form of thin sheets
- leafleteering — The printing and distribution of leaflets, especially as propaganda.
- leap of faith — to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch.
- 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.