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13-letter words containing f, l, e, c

  • functionalize — to make functional.
  • funeral march — march played for funeral processions
  • futtock plate — a metal plate placed perpendicular to the top of a ship's lower mast to hold the futtock shrouds.
  • genuflections — Plural form of genuflection.
  • glove factory — a factory where gloves are made
  • golden fleece — a fleece of pure gold, kept at Colchis by King Aeëtes from whom it was stolen by Jason and the Argonauts with the help of Aeëtes's daughter, Medea.
  • hair follicle — a small cavity in the epidermis and corium of the skin, from which a hair develops.
  • half-educated — having undergone education: educated people.
  • hefner candle — a German unit of luminous intensity, equal to 0.92 of a candela.
  • hubble effect — redshift
  • ichneumon fly — any of numerous wasplike insects of the family Ichneumonidae, the larvae of which are parasitic on caterpillars and immature stages of other insects.
  • ile de france — a former province in N France, including Paris and the region around it.
  • Île-de-france — a region of N France, in the Paris Basin: part of the duchy of France in the 10th century
  • impactfulness — The quality of being impactful.
  • imperfectible — that cannot be perfected.
  • in-capable of — not capable.
  • inconformable — Obsolete form of unconformable.
  • ineffectively — not effective; not producing results; ineffectual: ineffective efforts; ineffective remedies.
  • ineffectually — not effectual; without satisfactory or decisive effect: an ineffectual remedy.
  • inefficiently — not efficient; unable to effect or achieve the desired result with reasonable economy of means.
  • inflorescence — a flowering or blossoming.
  • influenceable — the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others: He used family influence to get the contract.
  • informercials — Plural form of informercial.
  • interfaceable — Capable of being interfaced.
  • isle of capri — Capri.
  • jellification — The process or result of jellifying.
  • john fletcher — John, 1579–1625, English dramatist: collaborated with Francis Beaumont 1606?–16; with Philip Massinger 1613–25.
  • john wycliffe — John, c1320–84, English theologian, religious reformer, and Biblical translator.
  • kaffeeklatsch — coffee klatsch.
  • landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
  • latent defect — hidden fault, undiscovered flaw
  • law of effect — another name for Thorndike's law
  • legal fiction — an acceptance of something as true, for the sake of convenience; legal pretence
  • legal offence — a crime that breaks a particular law and requires a particular punishment
  • let's face it — You use the expression 'let's face it' when you are stating a fact or making a comment about something which you think the person you are talking to may find unpleasant or be unwilling to admit.
  • lethal factor — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
  • liebfraumilch — a white wine produced chiefly in the region of Hesse in Germany.
  • life instinct — suicidal tendency or inclination; predisposition to self-destruction.
  • life is cheap — You use life is cheap or life has become cheap to refer to a situation in which nobody cares that large numbers of people are dying.
  • life sentence — a sentence condemning a convicted felon to spend the rest of his or her life in prison.
  • life-changing — having major impact on sb
  • line of force — an imaginary line representing a field of force, such as an electric or magnetic field, such that the tangent at any point is the direction of the field vector at that point
  • 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.
  • little office — (sometimes initial capital letters) Roman Catholic Church. an office similar to but shorter than the divine office, in honor of a saint, a mystery, or, especially, the Virgin Mary.
  • lorentz force — the force on a charged particle moving through a region containing both electric and magnetic fields.
  • lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
  • low frequency — any frequency between 30 and 300 kilohertz. Abbreviation: LF.
  • lucifer match — friction match.
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