13-letter words containing f, e, t, o, l
- help off with — If you help someone off with an item of clothing, you help them take it off.
- hold the fort — a strong or fortified place occupied by troops and usually surrounded by walls, ditches, and other defensive works; a fortress; fortification.
- 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.
- 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.
- informal vote — an invalid vote or ballot
- informalities — Plural form of informality.
- informatively — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- leg-of-mutton — having the triangular shape of a leg of mutton: leg-of-mutton sail; a dress with leg-of-mutton sleeves.
- legal fiction — an acceptance of something as true, for the sake of convenience; legal pretence
- let off steam — a blast of air or wind: to clean machinery with a blow.
- lethal factor — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
- life-or-death — life-and-death.
- 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.
- line of sight — Also called line of sighting. an imaginary straight line running through the aligned sights of a firearm, surveying equipment, etc.
- liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
- little alfold — a plain in NW Hungary and S Slovakia.
- 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).
- 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
- make light of — of little weight; not heavy: a light load.
- malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
- marsh trefoil — buck bean.
- matter of law — an issue or matter to be determined according to the relevant principles of law.
- mellification — the production of honey from nectar
- metafictional — Of, relating to, or being metafiction.
- metalliferous — containing or yielding metal.
- microfelsitic — (of a rock) showing evidence of crystallization having begun, but not yet having formed any crystals
- microfilament — a minute, narrow tubelike cell structure composed of a protein similar to actin, occurring singly and in bundles, involved in cytoplasmic movement and changes in cell shape.
- mole fraction — the ratio of the number of moles of a given component of a mixture to the total number of moles of all the components.
- monofilaments — Plural form of monofilament.
- mother of all — a female parent.
- movable feast — a religious feast that does not occur on the same date each year.
- myelofibrotic — of, relating to or affected by myelofibrosis
- neurofilament — (anatomy) A neurofibril.
- nimble-footed — able to move the feet agilely and neatly
- non-inflected — to modulate (the voice).