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12-letter words containing f, i, e, l

  • interfluence — the action of flowing together or merging
  • interfoliate — to interleave
  • interfrontal — situated between the frontal bones
  • interleafing — Present participle of interleaf.
  • iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
  • irreflection — lack of careful or long consideration
  • irreflective — Without mental reflection.
  • irreformable — insusceptible to reforming influences; incorrigible.
  • irreformably — in an irreformable manner
  • irrefragable — not to be disputed or contested.
  • irrefragably — In an irrefragable state or condition.
  • isapi filter — (web)   A replaceable DLL which the server calls whenever there is an HTTP request. When the filter is first loaded, it communicates to the server what sort of notifications will be accepted. After that, whenever a selected event occurs, the filter is called to process the event. Example applications of ISAPI filters include custom authentication schemes, compression, encryption, logging, traffic analysis or other request analyses.
  • isle of dogs — a district in the East End of London, bounded on three sides by the River Thames, and a focus of major office development (Canary Wharf) in recent years
  • jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
  • javelin fish — a fish of the genus Pomadasys of semitropical Australian seas with a long spine on its anal fin
  • jawless fish — cyclostome.
  • jaws of life — powerful shears used for cutting a vehicle open after a collision
  • kick oneself — regret sth
  • kill oneself — to overexert oneself
  • kiss of life — medicine
  • kitchen foil — aluminium foil used in cooking or storing food
  • kupfernickel — (archaic) cupronickel.
  • kylie effect — the increased awareness of breast cancer caused by the publicity surrounding its diagnosis in Kylie Minogue, born 1968, Australian singer and actress
  • lantern fish — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Myctophidae, having rows of luminous organs along each side, certain species of which migrate to the surface at night.
  • laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
  • law of sines — a law stating that the ratio of a side of a plane triangle to the sine of the opposite angle is the same for all three sides.
  • leaf-climber — a plant that climbs by using leaves specialized as tendrils
  • leapfrogging — Present participle of leapfrog.
  • left fielder — the player whose position is left field.
  • left-brained — having the left brain dominant, therefore being more adept at logic, calculation, language, and other thought processes or skills usually associated with the left brain.
  • left-justify — If printed text is left-justified, each line begins at the same distance from the left-hand edge of the page or column.
  • leif ericson — Leif [leef;; Icelandic leyv] /lif;; Icelandic leɪv/ (Show IPA), flourished a.d. c1000, Norse mariner: according to Icelandic saga, discoverer of Vinland (son of Eric the Red).
  • let floating — (programming)   A program transformation used in functional programming to implement full laziness. E.g. the function f x = x + sqrt 4 can be expressed as f x = let t = sqrt 4 in x + t but note that t does not depend on the argument x so we can automatically transform this to t = sqrt 4 f x = x + t Making t into a global constant which need only be evaluated at most once, rather than every time f is called. The general idea is to float each subexpression as far out (toward the top level) as possible to maximise sharing.
  • life annuity — any annuity that is contingent upon the survival of the annuitant or annuitants, especially an annuity that terminates with the death of a single annuitant.
  • life drawing — drawing objects or people from life
  • life goes on — You can say 'Life goes on' after mentioning something very sad to indicate that, although people are very upset or affected by it, they have to carry on living normally.
  • life history — the series of living phenomena exhibited by an organism in the course of its development from inception to death.
  • life partner — one member of a monogamous relationship.
  • life peerage — the title and rank of a life peer
  • life savings — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
  • life science — any science that deals with living organisms, their life processes, and their interrelationships, as biology, medicine, or ecology.
  • life support — equipment to sustain a patient's life
  • life tenancy — holding a tenancy until the holder dies
  • life-support — of or relating to equipment or measures that sustain or artificially substitute for essential body functions, as breathing or disposal of body wastes: Without life-support equipment, the patient might die.
  • lifelessness — The property of being lifeless, the lack of apparent animation.
  • lifelikeness — Quality of being lifelike.
  • lifestreamer — a person who provides an online record of his or her life, either by means of live video footage or via an online collection of social network updates, blogs, and photos
  • light-footed — stepping lightly or nimbly; light of foot; nimble.
  • lighter fuel — the fuel used in a cigarette or cigar lighter
  • line fishing — the activity and sport of fishing using a line
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