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13-letter words containing f, i, n, s

  • infraspecific — of or relating to a subdivision of a species, as a subspecies, variety, or cultivar.
  • infringements — Plural form of infringement.
  • infructuously — in an infructuous or unfruitful manner; fruitlessly
  • inns of court — (in England) the four private unincorporated societies in London that function as a law school and have the exclusive privilege of calling candidates to the English bar
  • inoffensively — In an inoffensive manner.
  • insignificant — unimportant, trifling, or petty: Omit the insignificant details.
  • insufficience — Obsolete form of insufficiency.
  • insufficiency — deficiency in amount, force, power, competence, or fitness; inadequacy: insufficiency of supplies.
  • interest-free — An interest-free loan has no interest charged on it.
  • interferences — Plural form of interference.
  • interspecific — existing or occurring between species.
  • interstratify — to lie in interposed or alternate strata.
  • intraspecific — existing or occurring within a species.
  • isle of pines — Isle of, former name of Youth, Isle of.
  • justification — a reason, fact, circumstance, or explanation that justifies or defends: His insulting you was ample justification for you to leave the party.
  • killing frost — the occurrence of temperatures cold enough to kill all but the hardiest vegetation, especially the last such occurrence in spring and the first in fall, events that limit the agricultural growing season.
  • king of kings — Christ; Jesus.
  • landfill site — also landfill
  • life instinct — suicidal tendency or inclination; predisposition to self-destruction.
  • life interest — interest on property that is payable during the owner's lifetime but cannot be passed on to another or others after his or her death.
  • life sentence — a sentence condemning a convicted felon to spend the rest of his or her life in prison.
  • lightfastness — The quality of being lightfast.
  • line of sight — Also called line of sighting. an imaginary straight line running through the aligned sights of a firearm, surveying equipment, etc.
  • lines of code — (programming, unit)   (LOC) A common measure of the size or progress of a programming project. For example, one can describe a completed project as consisting of 100,000 LOC; or one can characterise a week's progress as 5000 LOC. Using LOC as a metric of progress encourages programmers to reinvent the wheel or split their code into lots of short lines.
  • liquefacients — Plural form of liquefacient.
  • liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
  • living fossil — an organism that is a living example of an otherwise extinct group and that has remained virtually unchanged in structure and function over a long period of time, as the coelacanth and the horseshoe crab.
  • longsuffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
  • loose-fitting — (of a garment) fitting loosely; not following the contours of the body closely.
  • loss function — (in decision theory) a function that expresses the loss incurred when a decision is made in terms of various factors.
  • luminous flux — the rate of transmission of luminous energy: expressed in lumens.
  • magnesiferous — (geology) Containing magnesium.
  • magnetiferous — (dated) Producing or conducting magnetism.
  • malformations — Plural form of malformation.
  • manganiferous — containing manganese.
  • manifestation — an act of manifesting.
  • manifestative — manifesting; showing clearly or conclusively.
  • manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
  • masking frame — easel (def 2).
  • massification — the practice of making luxury products available to the mass market
  • match fitness — the condition of being match-fit
  • mesne profits — rents or profits accruing during the rightful owner's exclusion from his land
  • metafunctions — Plural form of metafunction.
  • mirror finish — a smooth highly polished surface produced on metal by mechanical or electrolytic polishing or lapping
  • mis-reference — an act or instance of referring.
  • misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
  • misidentified — Simple past tense and past participle of misidentify.
  • misidentifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misidentify.
  • modifications — Plural form of modification.
  • monkey's fist — a ball-like knot used as an ornament or as a throwing weight at the end of a line.
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