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

  • infusibility — Incapability or difficulty of being fused, melted, or dissolved.
  • insightfully — characterized by or displaying insight; perceptive.
  • insufflation — to blow or breathe (something) in.
  • 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
  • joint family — a type of extended family composed of parents, their children, and the children's spouses and offspring in one household.
  • justifyingly — to show (an act, claim, statement, etc.) to be just or right: The end does not always justify the means.
  • kitchen foil — aluminium foil used in cooking or storing food
  • 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.
  • latifundista — the owner of a latifundio in Latin America or Spain.
  • 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 partner — one member of a monogamous relationship.
  • life tenancy — holding a tenancy until the holder dies
  • lifting body — an aircraft or spacecraft configuration in which there are no wings, and lift is obtained by aerodynamic forces on its body.
  • lifting sail — a sail that when filled tends to raise the hull of a ship or boat (opposed to driving sail).
  • line of site — a straight line from the muzzle of an artillery gun to its target.
  • liquefacient — something that liquefies or promotes liquefaction.
  • liquefaction — the act or process of liquefying or making liquid.
  • lofting iron — a club whose head has a sloped face, for lofting the ball.
  • loosefitting — fitting loosely
  • lovecraftian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American fantasy and horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft (1870–1937)
  • malefactions — Plural form of malefaction.
  • malformation — faulty or anomalous formation or structure, especially in a living body: malformation of the teeth.
  • malfunctions — Plural form of malfunction.
  • mirthfulness — joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry: a mirthful laugh.
  • monofilament — Also, monofil [mon-uh-fil] /ˈmɒn əˌfɪl/ (Show IPA). a single, generally large filament of synthetic fiber. Compare multifilament (def 2).
  • mortifyingly — In a mortifying manner; so as to cause great embarrassment.
  • munificently — In a munificent manner.
  • myofilaments — Plural form of myofilament.
  • mystifyingly — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
  • 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.
  • nonfictional — the branch of literature comprising works of narrative prose dealing with or offering opinions or conjectures upon facts and reality, including biography, history, and the essay (opposed to fiction and distinguished from poetry and drama).
  • offputtingly — In an offputting manner.
  • olefiant gas — ethylene (def 2).
  • olfactronics — the measurement and analysis of smells through instruments
  • outline font — (text)   (Or "vector font") A font defined as a set of lines and curves as opposed to a bitmap font. An outline font (e.g. PostScript, TrueType, RISC OS) can be scaled to any size and otherwise transformed more easily than a bitmap font, and with more attractive results, though this requires a lot of numerical processing. The result of transforming a character in an outline font in a particular way is often saved as a bitmap in a font cache to avoid repeating the calculations if that character is to be drawn again.
  • over-inflate — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
  • palification — the act of fortifying something with stakes
  • pallet knife — a small, flat utensil for picking up and handling pastry paste.
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