14-letter words containing f, i, l, e
- lifestyle guru — a person hired to give someone advice on various aspects of his or her life, work, and relationships
- lifetime limit — The lifetime limit of a health insurance plan is the maximum coverage that it offers, after which payment stops, and the policyholder must pay all remaining costs.
- lift attendant — a person who operates a lift, esp in large public or commercial buildings and hotels
- light the fuse — If someone or something lights the fuse of a particular situation or activity, they suddenly get it started.
- light-fingered — skillful at or given to pilfering, especially by picking pockets; thievish.
- lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
- lindelof space — a topological space having the property that every cover consisting of open sets has a subcover consisting of a countable number of subsets.
- line of attack — a line of attack to a problem or situation is how you approach it
- line of battle — a line formed by troops or ships for delivering or receiving an attack.
- line of credit — credit line (def 2).
- line of flight — the flight path of something travelling from one place to another
- line of vision — a straight line that connects the fovea centralis of an eye with the point on which the eye focuses.
- lobelia family — the plant family Lobeliaceae (sometimes considered a subfamily, Lobelioideae, of the Campanulaceae, or bellflower family), typified by usually herbaceous plants having milky sap, simple alternate leaves, irregular two-lipped flowers, and fruit in the form of a capsule or berry, and including the cardinal flower, Indian tobacco, and lobelia.
- long-suffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
- lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
- magnetic field — a region of space near a magnet, electric current, or moving charged particle in which a magnetic force acts on any other magnet, electric current, or moving charged particle.
- make little of — small in size; not big; not large; tiny: a little desk in the corner of the room.
- man of galilee — Jesus.
- massif central — a great plateau and the chief water divide of France, in the central part.
- meadow salsify — a European weedy, composite plant, Tragopogon pratensis, naturalized in North America, having grasslike leaves and yellow flowers.
- meaningfulness — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
- melamine-faced — having a thin melamine layer on one or more faces
- merthyr tydfil — an administrative district in Mid Glamorgan, in S Wales. 43 sq. mi. (113 sq. km).
- microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
- middle flemish — the Flemish language of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries.
- midlife crisis — a period of psychological stress occurring in middle age, thought to be triggered by a physical, occupational, or domestic event, as menopause, diminution of physical prowess, job loss, or departure of children from the home.
- miniature golf — a game or amusement modeled on golf and played with a putter and golf ball, in which each very short, grassless “hole” constitutes an obstacle course, consisting of wooden alleys, tunnels, bridges, etc., through which the ball must be driven to hole it.
- minucius felix — Marcus, Roman writer of the 2nd century a.d. whose dialogue Octavius is the earliest known work of Latin-Christian literature.
- mittag-leffler — Magnus Gösta [mahng-nuhs yœ-stah] /ˈmɑŋ nʌs ˈyœ stɑ/ (Show IPA), 1846–1927, Swedish mathematician.
- mixed feelings — conflicted emotions
- molecular film — a film or layer one molecule thick.
- moment of sail — the product of a given area of sail, taken as the maximum safe area, and the vertical distance from the center of effort and the center of lateral resistance.
- moon jellyfish — a coelenterate, Aurelia aurita, inhabiting all seas, having a luminescent milky-pink or milky-orange, umbrellalike disk 3–9 inches (8–23 cm) in diameter.
- morgain le fay — Morgan le Fay.
- mosquito fleet — a group or fleet of PT boats or other small, armed boats.
- multifrequency — Of or pertaining to multiple frequencies.
- multiple fruit — a fruit, such as a pineapple, formed from the ovaries of individual flowers in an inflorescence
- music festival — a festival, often an annual event, at which a lot of different performers play
- new federalism — a plan, announced in 1969, to turn over the control of some federal programs to state and local governments and institute block grants, revenue sharing, etc.
- non-affiliated — not associated with a particular group, organization, etc
- non-beneficial — conferring benefit; advantageous; helpful: the beneficial effect of sunshine.
- non-classified — arranged or distributed in classes or according to class: We plan to review all the classified specimens in the laboratory.
- non-diffusible — capable of being diffused.
- non-refillable — (of a container of some kind) not capable of being used again by having more of something put inside
- non-reflection — the act of reflecting, as in casting back a light or heat, mirroring, or giving back or showing an image; the state of being reflected in this way.
- non-reflective — not capable of or not designed to reflect light
- nonfilamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
- nonfissionable — not able to undergo fission
- nonforfeitable — a fine; penalty.
- nonfulfillment — neglect or failure to fulfill or carry out as required.