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13-letter words containing f, i, l, t

  • fleet air arm — the aviation branch of the Royal Navy
  • flemish giant — one of a breed of large domestic rabbits of Belgian origin, having a solid gray, white, or black coat, and raised for its meat and fur.
  • flight leader — a pilot who commands a flight of military airplanes.
  • flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
  • flirtatiously — given or inclined to flirtation.
  • floatcut file — file with rows of parallel teeth
  • floating debt — short-term government borrowing, esp by the issue of three-month Treasury bills
  • floating dock — a submersible, floating structure used as a dry dock, having a floor that is submerged, slipped under a floating vessel, and then raised so as to raise the vessel entirely out of the water.
  • floating gang — a group of railroad workers who service or repair the track but are not assigned to a particular section.
  • floating rate — fluctuating exchange rate
  • floating ribs — the eleventh and twelfth pairs of ribs, not attached to the breastbone or to other ribs but only to the vertebrae
  • floating roof — A floating roof is an internal roof of a fuel storage tank.
  • floating vote — those voters collectively who are not permanently attached to any political party.
  • floccillation — a delirious picking of the bedclothes by the patient, as in certain fevers.
  • floodlighting — Present participle of floodlight.
  • floor trading — trading by personal contact on the floor of a market or exchange
  • floricultural — Of or pertaining to floriculture.
  • floristically — In a floristic manner.
  • floutingstock — a laughing-stock; the object of mockery or flouting
  • flow function — The flow function is the relationship between the strength of a compact and the degree of compaction.
  • fluctuational — Of, pertaining to, or resulting from fluctuation(s).
  • flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
  • fluid-extract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
  • flunitrazepam — a powerful benzodiazepine sedative, C 16 H 12 FN 3 O 3 , that causes semiconsciousness and memory blackouts: has been implicated in date rapes and is illegal in the U.S.
  • fluoroplastic — any of the plastics, as Teflon, in which hydrogen atoms of the hydrocarbon chains are replaced by fluorine atoms.
  • fluoroscopist — One who carries out fluoroscopy.
  • flying doctor — a doctor listed with local authorities as willing to be flown to remote areas to give emergency medical care.
  • flying picket — (in industrial disputes) a member of a group of pickets organized to be able to move quickly from place to place
  • flying tackle — a tackle made by hurling one's body through the air at the player carrying the ball.
  • fn tunnelling — Fowler-Nordheim tunnelling
  • fold function — (programming)   In functional programming, fold or "reduce" is a kind of higher-order function that takes as arguments a function, an initial "accumulator" value and a data structure (often a list). In Haskell, the two flavours of fold for lists, called foldl and foldr are defined like this: foldl :: (a -> b -> a) -> a -> [b] -> a foldl f z [] = z foldl f z (x:xs) = foldl f (f z x) xs foldr :: (a -> b -> b) -> b -> [a] -> b foldr f z [] = z foldr f z (x:xs) = f x (foldr f z xs) In both cases, if the input list is empty, the result is the value of the accumulator, z. If not, foldl takes the head of the list, x, and returns the result of recursing on the tail of the list using (f z x) as the new z. foldr returns (f x q) where q is the result of recursing on the tail. The "l" and "r" in the names refer to the associativity of the application of f. Thus if f = (+) (the binary plus operator used as a function of two arguments), we have: foldl (+) 0 [1, 2, 3] = (((0 + 1) + 2) + 3 (applying + left associatively) and foldr (+) 0 [1, 2, 3] = 0 + (1 + (2 + 3)) (applying + right associatively). For +, this makes no difference but for an non-commutative operator it would.
  • foliage plant — any plant grown chiefly for its attractive leaves.
  • folkloristics — folklore (def 2).
  • follicle mite — any mite of the family Demodicidae, parasitic in hair follicles of various mammals, including humans.
  • fontainebleau — a town in N France, SE of Paris: famous palace, long a favorite residence of French kings; extensive forest.
  • fooling about — the act of speaking or acting in a playful, teasing, or jesting manner
  • foot the bill — pay the costs
  • foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
  • foresightless — lacking foresight
  • formalisation — Alternative spelling of formalization.
  • formalization — to make formal, especially for the sake of official or authorized acceptance: to formalize an understanding by drawing up a legal contract.
  • formidability — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
  • formularistic — relating to formularization
  • fort moultrie — William, 1730–1805, U.S. general.
  • fortnightlies — Plural form of fortnightly.
  • fortran-linda — Scientific Computer Assocs <[email protected]>.
  • fossilisation — Alternative spelling of fossilization.
  • fossilization — Geology. to convert into a fossil; replace organic with mineral substances in the remains of an organism.
  • foxtail wedge — a wedge in the split end of a tenon, bolt, or the like, for spreading and securing it when driven into a blind mortise or hole.
  • fractionalise — Alt form fractionalize.
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