13-letter words containing f, i, e, l
- gallimaufries — Plural form of gallimaufry.
- game of skill — a game in which the outcome is determined by skill rather than by chance, as chess.
- garrison life — the life of troops who maintain and guard a military base or fortified place
- gefullte fish — dish of fish stuffed with various ingredients
- geminiflorous — having flowers arranged in pairs.
- gemmuliferous — producing or reproducing by gemmules.
- genuflections — Plural form of genuflection.
- gill filament — one of the threadlike processes forming the respiratory surface of a gill.
- ginger family — the plant family Zingiberaceae, characterized by tropical, often aromatic herbaceous plants having rhizomes, long sheathing leaves, and clusters of tubular flowers, and including cardamon, ginger, and turmeric.
- globuliferous — containing or producing globules.
- glue sniffing — the inhaling of the fumes of certain kinds of glue for the hallucinogenic or euphoric effect.
- glue-sniffing — the inhaling of the fumes of certain kinds of glue for the hallucinogenic or euphoric effect.
- go fly a kite — to move through the air using wings.
- goldie's fern — a wood fern, Dryopteris goldiana, of northeastern North America, having large, golden-green, leathery fronds with blades that tilt backward.
- golfe du lion — French name of the Gulf of Lions.
- granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
- hair follicle — a small cavity in the epidermis and corium of the skin, from which a hair develops.
- half the time — If you say that something is the case half the time you mean that it often is the case.
- half-digested — to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
- half-finished — ended or completed.
- half-integral — noting or pertaining to a fractional number obtained by dividing an odd integer by two, as 1/2.
- half-silvered — (of a mirror) having an incomplete reflective coating, so that half the incident light is reflected and half transmitted: used in optical instruments and two-way mirrors
- half-timbered — (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.
- hard feelings — Hard feelings are feelings of anger or bitterness towards someone who you have had an argument with or who has upset you. If you say 'no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
- heart failure — a condition in which the heart fatally ceases to function.
- heavy lifting — hard work: A team of researchers did the heavy lifting for the author.
- 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.
- hill of beans — something of trifling value; virtually nothing at all: The problem didn't amount to a hill of beans.
- hunting rifle — shotgun used to kill game
- hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
- hyperflexible — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
- hyperinflated — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
- ichneumon fly — any of numerous wasplike insects of the family Ichneumonidae, the larvae of which are parasitic on caterpillars and immature stages of other insects.
- if you please — expressing mild outrage
- ile de france — a former province in N France, including Paris and the region around it.
- Île-de-france — a region of N France, in the Paris Basin: part of the duchy of France in the 10th century
- 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.
- in-capable of — not capable.
- inconformable — Obsolete form of unconformable.
- indefatigable — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
- indefatigably — In an extremely persistent and untiring manner; in an indefatigable manner.
- indemnifiable — Something suitable for indemnification.
- indifferently — without interest or concern; not caring; apathetic: his indifferent attitude toward the suffering of others.
- ineffableness — The quality or state of being ineffable.
- 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.