14-letter words containing f, l, e, s
- house of lords — the nonelective, upper house of the British Parliament, comprising the lords spiritual and lords temporal.
- if it kills me — If you say that you will do something if it kills you, you are emphasizing that you are determined to do it even though it is extremely difficult or painful.
- ill-suited for — unsuitable for something
- in lieu of sth — If you do, get, or give one thing in lieu of another, you do, get, or give it instead of the other thing, because the two things are considered to have the same value or importance.
- in single file — one behind another
- infeasibleness — The quality of being infeasible.
- infelicitously — In a way that is infelicitous or unfortunate.
- infinitesimals — Plural form of infinitesimal.
- inflammatories — Plural form of inflammatory.
- inflectionless — Without inflection.
- inflexibleness — The quality or state of being inflexible; inflexibility; rigidity; firmness.
- inflorescences — Plural form of inflorescence.
- insightfulness — The state or condition of being insightful.
- insufficiently — not sufficient; lacking in what is necessary or required: an insufficient answer.
- intestinal flu — influenza with abdominal symptoms, as diarrhea or vomiting.
- isle of france — Île-de-France
- isle of thanet — an island in SE England, in NE Kent, separated from the mainland by two branches of the River Stour: scene of many Norse invasions. Area: 109 sq km (42 sq miles)
- jeffersonville — a city in S Indiana, on the Ohio River.
- kabalega falls — rapids on the lower Victoria Nile, about 35 km (22 miles) east of Lake Albert, where the Nile drops 120 m (400 ft)
- kaffee klatsch — coffee klatsch.
- kaffeeklatches — Plural form of kaffeeklatch.
- kaieteur falls — a river in central Guyana: (Kaieteur Falls) one of highest waterfalls in the world at 741 feet (226 meters). 100 miles (161 km) long.
- kaieteur-falls — a river in central Guyana: (Kaieteur Falls) one of highest waterfalls in the world at 741 feet (226 meters). 100 miles (161 km) long.
- keep-fit class — an exercise class designed to promote physical fitness
- kettle of fish — an awkward, difficult, or bad situation; muddle; mess: He's managed to get himself into a fine kettle of fish!
- killing fields — People sometimes refer to a battlefield or a place where many people have been killed as that place's killing fields.
- lake whitefish — a whitefish, Coregonus clupeaformis, found in the Great Lakes and north to Alaska, used for food.
- law of cosines — a law stating that the square of a side of a plane triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides minus twice the product of the other sides multiplied by the cosine of the angle between them.
- leaf-nosed bat — any of various New and Old World bats, as of the families Phyllostomatidae, Rhinolophidae, and Hipposideridae, having a leaflike flap of skin at the tip of the nose.
- lend itself to — to be adapted to, useful for, or open to
- let oneself go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- life assurance — insurance: pays if holder dies
- life insurance — insurance providing for payment of a sum of money to a named beneficiary upon the death of the policyholder or to the policyholder if still living after reaching a specified age.
- life preserver — a buoyant jacket, belt, or other like device for keeping a person afloat.
- life president — the president of a club, society, etc, who will remain president until death
- lifestyle guru — a person hired to give someone advice on various aspects of his or her life, work, and relationships
- light the fuse — If someone or something lights the fuse of a particular situation or activity, they suddenly get it started.
- lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
- lindelof space — a topological space having the property that every cover consisting of open sets has a subcover consisting of a countable number of subsets.
- line of vision — a straight line that connects the fovea centralis of an eye with the point on which the eye focuses.
- long-suffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
- lyre-form sofa — a sofa of the early 19th century having a front rail curving upward and outward at either end to form arms and terminating in a downward scroll.
- malefactresses — a woman who violates the law or does evil.
- man of letters — highly educated man
- massif central — a great plateau and the chief water divide of France, in the central part.
- meadow salsify — a European weedy, composite plant, Tragopogon pratensis, naturalized in North America, having grasslike leaves and yellow flowers.
- meaningfulness — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
- microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
- middle flemish — the Flemish language of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries.
- midlife crisis — a period of psychological stress occurring in middle age, thought to be triggered by a physical, occupational, or domestic event, as menopause, diminution of physical prowess, job loss, or departure of children from the home.