13-letter words containing f, l, i, n
- close-fitting — Close-fitting clothes fit tightly and show the shape of your body.
- coalification — the compression, over time, of plant matter into coal
- cobol fingers — (jargon) /koh'bol fing'grz/ Reported from Sweden, a hypothetical disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see candygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
- confabulating — Present participle of confabulate.
- confabulation — the act of confabulating; conversation; discussion.
- confessionals — Plural form of confessional.
- confiscatable — confiscable
- conflagration — A conflagration is a fire that burns over a large area and destroys property.
- conflagrative — That produces conflagration.
- conflictingly — being in conflict or disagreement; not compatible: conflicting viewpoints.
- conflictions' — to come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash: The account of one eyewitness conflicted with that of the other. My class conflicts with my going to the concert.
- confoundingly — in a confounding manner
- conway's life — Conway's Game of Life
- coreferential — (of more than one linguistic expression) designating the same individual or class
- cornfield ant — a small, brown ant, Lasius alienus, that lives in cornfields and feeds on honeydew of the corn-root aphid.
- counterfeitly — in a counterfeit manner
- county family — an old family that has lived in a particular county for several generations
- craftsmanlike — Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman.
- cutting fluid — a liquid or gas for cooling or lubricating a cutting tool and a piece of work at their point of contact.
- cycloolefinic — of or like a cycloolefin
- cycloparaffin — any of a series of saturated alicyclic hydrocarbons of the general formula CnH2n, having a closed chain of three or more carbon atoms, as cyclohexane
- dean of guild — the titular head of the guild or merchant company in a Scots burgh, who formerly exercised jurisdiction over all building in the burgh in the Dean of Guild Court
- deceitfulness — given to deceiving: A deceitful person cannot keep friends for long.
- declassifying — Present participle of declassify.
- deconflicting — Present participle of deconflict.
- deconfliction — The act or process of deconflicting.
- defendability — (uncountable) The condition of being defendable.
- defensibility — capable of being defended against assault or injury: The troops were bivouacked in a defensible position.
- deferentially — showing deference; deferent; respectful.
- defloration's — the act of deflowering.
- deformational — of or relating to deformation
- delirifacient — anything that causes or induces delirium
- desulfuration — to desulfurize.
- differentials — Plural form of differential.
- difficultness — The state or quality of being difficult.
- digital fount — a typeface of which the letter-shapes have been converted into digital form so that they can be used in computer-aided typesetting
- discontentful — exhibiting a lack of contentment
- disfunctional — dysfunction.
- disqualifying — Present participle of disqualify.
- diving reflex — a reflex of humans, other mammals, reptiles, and birds, triggered by immersion in cold water, that slows the heart rate and diverts blood flow to the brain, heart, and lungs: serves to conserve oxygen until breathing resumes and to delay potential brain damage.
- dysfunctional — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
- eff and blind — to use obscene language
- elephant fish — a large marine fish, Callorhinchus milii, of southwest Pacific waters, having a snout resembling an elephant's trunk
- enfield rifle — a breech-loading bolt-action magazine rifle, usually .303 calibre, used by the British army until World War II and by other countries
- factionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of factionalize.
- faith healing — healing effected through prayer or religious faith; divine healing.
- faithlessness — The quality of being faithless.
- false diamond — any of a number of semiprecious stones that resemble diamond, such as zircon and white topaz
- false horizon — a line or plane that simulates the horizon, used in altitude-measuring devices or the like.
- falsification — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.