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

  • insufferably — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
  • interfaculty — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
  • interfemoral — situated between the thighs
  • interfoliate — to interleave
  • interfrontal — situated between the frontal bones
  • interleafing — Present participle of interleaf.
  • iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
  • javelin fish — a fish of the genus Pomadasys of semitropical Australian seas with a long spine on its anal fin
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • leapfrogging — Present participle of leapfrog.
  • 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.
  • 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 partner — one member of a monogamous relationship.
  • life savings — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
  • life tenancy — holding a tenancy until the holder dies
  • liquefacient — something that liquefies or promotes liquefaction.
  • liquefaction — the act or process of liquefying or making liquid.
  • live in fear — You can use expressions such as to live in fear and to live in terror to indicate that someone is always thinking about an unpleasant or frightening event, because they think that it might happen.
  • loan officer — a bank employee who helps would-be borrowers get a loan
  • loriciferans — Plural form of loriciferan.
  • lovecraftian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American fantasy and horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft (1870–1937)
  • ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
  • malefactions — Plural form of malefaction.
  • manifoldness — (mathematics) multiplicity.
  • meaningfully — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
  • mischanceful — unlucky
  • monofilament — Also, monofil [mon-uh-fil] /ˈmɒn əˌfɪl/ (Show IPA). a single, generally large filament of synthetic fiber. Compare multifilament (def 2).
  • myofilaments — Plural form of myofilament.
  • neofeudalism — A theorized contemporary rebirth of policies of governance, economy and public life reminiscent of those present in many feudal societies.
  • neoflavonoid — (organic chemistry) Any compound, isomeric with the flavonoids, derived from 4-phenyl-1,2-benzopyrone.
  • nitrate film — film stock using a base of cellulose nitrate: extremely flammable and tending to erode at a relatively early age.
  • nonaffiliate — One who is not an affiliate.
  • nonqualified — unqualified (def 1).
  • off-islander — a temporary or seasonal resident of an island; island visitor or tourist.
  • oil of anise — the aromatic seed of anise, the oil of which (anise oil, aniseed oil, oil of anise) is used in the manufacture of anethole, in medicine as a carminative and expectorant, and in cookery and liqueurs for its licoricelike flavor.
  • oldfashioned — Rare spelling of old-fashioned.
  • olefiant gas — ethylene (def 2).
  • over-inflate — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
  • paling-fence — Also called paling fence. picket fence.
  • pallet knife — a small, flat utensil for picking up and handling pastry paste.
  • patent cliff — a potential sharp drop in sales and revenue for a company when one of its patents expires: the looming patent cliffs faced by pharmaceutical firms.
  • pectoral fin — (in fishes) either of a pair of fins usually situated behind the head, one on each side, and corresponding to the forelimbs of higher vertebrates.
  • pelecaniform — of, or having the nature of, an order (Pelecaniformes) of swimming birds having all four toes connected in a webbed foot, including pelicans and cormorants
  • persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
  • placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
  • preferential — of, relating to, or of the nature of preference: preferential policies.
  • prefloration — the internal arrangement of a flower-bud's petals and sepals before it opens
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