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

  • insufferable — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
  • 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
  • interfertile — able to interbreed.
  • interfilling — a filling of materials, as brickwork between studs.
  • interfluence — the action of flowing together or merging
  • interfoliate — to interleave
  • interfrontal — situated between the frontal bones
  • interleafing — Present participle of interleaf.
  • iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
  • irreflection — lack of careful or long consideration
  • javelin fish — a fish of the genus Pomadasys of semitropical Australian seas with a long spine on its anal fin
  • kick oneself — regret sth
  • kill oneself — to overexert oneself
  • kitchen foil — aluminium foil used in cooking or storing food
  • kupfernickel — (archaic) cupronickel.
  • 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.
  • leif ericson — Leif [leef;; Icelandic leyv] /lif;; Icelandic leɪv/ (Show IPA), flourished a.d. c1000, Norse mariner: according to Icelandic saga, discoverer of Vinland (son of Eric the Red).
  • 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 goes on — You can say 'Life goes on' after mentioning something very sad to indicate that, although people are very upset or affected by it, they have to carry on living normally.
  • life partner — one member of a monogamous relationship.
  • life savings — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
  • life science — any science that deals with living organisms, their life processes, and their interrelationships, as biology, medicine, or ecology.
  • life tenancy — holding a tenancy until the holder dies
  • lifelessness — The property of being lifeless, the lack of apparent animation.
  • lifelikeness — Quality of being lifelike.
  • line fishing — the activity and sport of fishing using a line
  • line of fire — the straight horizontal line from the muzzle of a weapon in the direction of the axis of the bore, just prior to firing.
  • line of site — a straight line from the muzzle of an artillery gun to its target.
  • line officer — a military or naval officer serving with combatant units or warships, as distinguished from a staff officer, supply officer, etc.
  • 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
  • loosefitting — fitting loosely
  • 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.
  • luminiferous — producing light: the luminiferous properties of a gas.
  • malefactions — Plural form of malefaction.
  • manifoldness — (mathematics) multiplicity.
  • meaningfully — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
  • mercifulness — full of mercy; characterized by, expressing, or showing mercy; compassionate: a merciful God.
  • mirthfulness — joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry: a mirthful laugh.
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