13-letter words containing f, i, r, l
- referentially — having reference: referential to something.
- reflex-action — Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
- reflexiveness — Grammar. (of a verb) taking a subject and object with identical referents, as shave in I shave myself. (of a pronoun) used as an object to refer to the subject of a verb, as myself in I shave myself.
- refocillation — the restoring of strength by refreshment or revivement
- reformability — the extent to which something or someone is reformable; the capability or susceptibility to reform
- reformulation — to formulate again.
- refundability — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
- reinforceable — capable of being reinforced
- relief agency — an organization that provides aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
- relief troops — soldiers sent to an area of conflict or a disaster area in order to provide aid or assistance there
- relief worker — a person who works for a charity providing aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
- renal failure — a condition in which the kidneys fail to function adequately
- reptiliferous — (of rocks, etc) yielding fossilized reptiles
- retrofittable — to modify equipment (in airplanes, automobiles, a factory, etc.) that is already in service using parts developed or made available after the time of original manufacture.
- retroflection — a bending backward.
- return flight — a flight going back
- reversal film — film developed by the reversal process.
- rifle grenade — a grenade designed to be fired from a grenade launcher attached to the muzzle of a rifle or carbine.
- right fielder — the player whose position is right field.
- right to life — When people talk about an unborn baby's right to life, they mean that a baby has the right to be born, even if it has a severe disability or if its mother does not want it.
- right-to-life — pertaining to or advocating laws making abortion, especially abortion-on-demand, illegal; antiabortion: right-to-life advocates.
- ripple effect — a spreading effect or series of consequences caused by a single action or event.
- rock-fill dam — a dam built mainly of rocks of various sizes fitted compactly together.
- role conflict — emotional conflict arising when competing demands are made on an individual in the fulfillment of his or her multiple social roles.
- sacrifice fly — a fly ball when there are fewer than two players out that enables a base runner, usually at third base, to score after the ball is caught.
- sacrificially — pertaining to or concerned with sacrifice.
- safflower oil — an oil expressed or extracted fromsafflower seeds, used in cooking, as a salad oil, and as a vehicle for medicines, paints, varnishes, etc.
- sales figures — the amount of sales of something within a particular time frame
- sassafras oil — a yellowish or reddish-yellow, aromatic volatile oil distilled from sassafras root, used in flavoring, perfumery, and medicine.
- scalariformly — in a scalariform or ladder-like manner
- scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
- school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
- school friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
- self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
- self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
- self-critical — capable of criticizing oneself objectively.
- self-directed — guided, regulated, or managed: a carefully directed program.
- self-distrust — lack of confidence in oneself, in one's abilities, etc.
- self-ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
- self-improver — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
- self-incurred — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
- self-interest — regard for one's own interest or advantage, especially with disregard for others.
- self-ordained — to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon.
- self-oriented — the Orient, the countries of Asia, especially East Asia. (formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- self-portrait — a portrait of oneself done by oneself.
- self-reliance — reliance on oneself or one's own powers, resources, etc.
- self-renewing — of or relating to the act of renewing oneself or itself
- self-resigned — submissive or acquiescent.
- self-ridicule — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
- self-righting — able to or designed to right itself or oneself after falling or capsizing.