4-letter words containing f, l
- half — one of two equal or approximately equal parts of a divisible whole, as an object, or unit of measure or time; a part of a whole equal or almost equal to the remainder.
- hdfl — A single assignment language.
- ifdl — (language) Independent Form Description Language.
- jfcl — /jif'kl/, /jaf'kl/, /j*-fi'kl/ (obsolete) To cancel or annul something. "Why don't you jfcl that out?" The fastest do-nothing instruction on older models of the PDP-10 happened to be JFCL, which stands for "Jump if Flag set and then CLear the flag"; this does something useful, but is a very fast no-operation if no flag is specified. Geoff Goodfellow, one of the jargon-1 co-authors, had JFCL on the licence plate of his BMW for years. Usage: rare except among old-time PDP-10 hackers.
- laff — (chiefly, humorous, or, for children) alternative spelling of laugh.
- laft — (obsolete) Past participle of leave.
- lauf — a run in bobsleighing
- leaf — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
- left — of, relating to, or located on or near the side of a person or thing that is turned toward the west when the subject is facing north (opposed to right).
- leif — a male given name.
- lfib — Label Forwarding Information Base
- lgdf — Large-Grain DataFlow.
- lief — gladly; willingly: I would as lief go south as not.
- life — the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.
- lifo — stack
- lift — to move or bring (something) upward from the ground or other support to a higher position; hoist.
- loaf — a portion of bread or cake baked in a mass, usually oblong with a rounded top.
- lofe — (UK dialectal) An offer; choice; an opportunity; chance.
- loff — Alternative form of lofe.
- lofn — a goddess who aids those having trouble winning the affections of their beloveds.
- loft — a room, storage area, or the like within a sloping roof; attic; garret.
- loof — the tapering of a hull toward the stern.
- luff — the forward edge of a fore-and-aft sail.
- luft — (chess) Space made for a castled king to give it a flight square to prevent a back-rank mate.
- mftl — My Favourite Toy Language
- milf — an attractive older woman, usually a mother, who is regarded as a sexual object by a younger man.
- nafl — a prayer, charitable act, etc., that goes beyond the requirements of one's religion.
- nfql — ["NFQL: The Natural Forms Query Language", D. Embley, Trans Database Sys 14(2):168-211 (June 1989)].
- olaf — Saint (Olaf Haraldssön) a.d. 995–1030, king of Norway from 1016 to 1029; patron saint of Norway.
- pelf — money or wealth, especially when regarded with contempt or acquired by reprehensible means.
- pflp — Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
- refl — reflection
- rflp — restriction fragment length polymorphism: a fragment of DNA, cut by a restriction enzyme, that is different in length for each genetically related group and is used to trace family relationships.
- rofl — ROTFL
- rolf — to vomit.
- rufl — Rhodes University Functional Language. A Miranda-like functional language from Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa with a SPARC code generator.
- self — a person or thing referred to with respect to complete individuality: one's own self.
- sflv — Unifies logic and functional programming. SASL+LV with unification moved from actual/formal parameter matching to equational clauses. "Static Analysis of Functional Programs with Logical Variables", G. Lindstrom in Programming Languages Implementation and Logic Programming, P. Deransart et al eds, LNCS 348, Springer 1988.
- tdfl — Dataflow language. "TDFL: A Task-Level Dataflow Language", P. Suhler et al, J Parallel Dist Comp 9(2):103-115 (Jun 1990).
- tefl — TEFL is the teaching of English to people whose first language is not English, especially people from a country where English is not spoken. TEFL is an abbreviation for 'teaching English as a foreign language'.
- tfdl — (language) ["TFDL : A Task-level Dataflow Language", P.A. Suhler et al, J Parallel and Distrib Comput 9:103-115 (1990)].
- wafl — WArwick Functional Language. Warwick U, England. LISP-like.
- wifl — Western Intercollegiate Football League
- wolf — any of several large carnivorous mammals of the genus Canis, of the dog family Canidae, especially C. lupus, usually hunting in packs, formerly common throughout the Northern Hemisphere but now chiefly restricted to the more unpopulated parts of its range.
- wsfl — Western States Football League
- wtfl — Womens Tackle Football League
- wwfl — Wagon Wheel Football League