11-letter words containing f, i, l, a
- go bail for — to furnish bail for
- go flatline — [Cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] also "flatlined". 1. To die, terminate, or fail, especially irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human death being considered somewhat too serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes about. 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing controlled shutdown. "You can suffer file damage if you shut down Unix but power off before the system has gone flatline." 3. Of a video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so all one sees is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.
- gonfalonier — the bearer of a gonfalon.
- grand final — the final game of the season in any of various sports, esp football
- grandiflora — any of several plant varieties or hybrids characterized by large showy flowers, as certain kinds of petunias, baby's breath, or roses.
- granuliform — having a granular structure
- gratifiable — to give pleasure to (a person or persons) by satisfying desires or humoring inclinations or feelings: Her praise will gratify all who worked so hard to earn it.
- guinea fowl — any of several African, gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Numidinae, especially a common species, Numida meleagris, that has a bony casque on the head and dark gray plumage spotted with white and that is now domesticated and raised for its flesh and eggs.
- haddonfield — a town in SW New Jersey.
- hail-fellow — Also, hail fellow, hail-fellow well met. a spiritedly sociable person; jolly companion.
- half gainer — a dive in which the diver takes off facing forward and performs a backward half-somersault, entering the water headfirst and facing the springboard.
- half relief — mezzo-relievo.
- half sister — sister (def 2).
- half-boiled — drunk.
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- half-circle — one half of a circle
- half-filled — to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
- half-hidden — concealed; obscure; covert: hidden meaning; hidden hostility.
- half-hoping — having or expressing some hope
- half-joking — something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him.
- half-minute — 30 seconds
- half-ruined — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- half-sister — sister (def 2).
- half-witted — feeble-minded.
- halleflinta — a type of rock, volcanic or metamorphic in origin, that has a fine grain
- hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.
- have a life — If you say that you have a life, you mean that you have interests and activities, particularly outside your work, which make your life enjoyable and worthwhile.
- hessian fly — a small fly, Phytophaga destructor, the larvae of which feed on the stems of wheat and other grasses.
- hidden flag — (scientific computation) An extra option added to a routine without changing the calling sequence. For example, instead of adding an explicit input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the programmer might just add a test for some otherwise meaningless feature of the existing inputs, such as a negative mass. The use of hidden flags can make a program very hard to debug and understand, but is all too common wherever programs are hacked in a hurry.
- high fulham — a die loaded at one corner either to favor a throw of 4, 5, or 6 (high fulham) or to favor a throw of 1, 2, or 3 (low fulham)
- highfalutin — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
- hill farmer — a farmer on a hill farm
- holy family — a representation in art of Mary, Joseph, and the infant Jesus.
- honorifical — honorific
- host family — family one lodges with
- idaho falls — a city in E Idaho.
- idler shaft — a shaft carrying one or more gearwheels that idles between a driver shaft and a driven shaft, usually to reverse the direction of rotation or provide different spacing of gearwheels, esp in a gearbox
- ill-favored — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- impactfully — In an impactful fashion.
- in place of — instead of, replacing
- increaseful — full of increase; fertile; fruitful
- indefinable — not definable; not readily identified, described, analyzed, or determined.
- indefinably — not definable; not readily identified, described, analyzed, or determined.
- indian file — in single file.
- indian wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus pallipes, of Asia south of the Himalayas.
- ineffectual — not effectual; without satisfactory or decisive effect: an ineffectual remedy.
- infantilism — the persistence in an adult of markedly childish anatomical, physiological, or psychological characteristics.
- infantilist — (sexuality) One who is subject to infantilism.
- infantility — characteristic of or befitting an infant; babyish; childish: infantile behavior.
- infantilize — to keep in or reduce to an infantile state.