10-letter words containing f, o, l
- life coach — a person who advises clients on how to solve their problems and reach their goals in life: A life coach can help you make the right decisions in your career.
- life float — a ring-shaped float of balsa wood or metal tubing, having a grating or network at the center, for rescuing a number of survivors from a foundered vessel.
- life force — élan vital.
- life story — an account of all the events that happened to someone during their life
- lightproof — impervious to light: a lightproof film cartridge.
- linguiform — having the shape of a tongue; tongue-shaped.
- lipofuscin — any of several brown pigments similar to melanin that accumulate in animal cells with age and are products of oxidation of lipids and lipoproteins.
- little fox — the constellation Vulpecula.
- lmgtfy.com — (humour, web) A somewhat sarcastic web service that animates the action of searching on Google. Instead of displaying the search results, the site creates a self-referential URL like that takes you to a page showing an animation of the actions of clicking in the Google search box, entering some text and clicking the submit button. It then takes you to the results on Google. The link is intended be sent to in answer to a question that could easily have been answered by Google. It is a more polite, if long-winded, way of saying JFGI or STFW. In the belief that it is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish, the service helps the recipient to help himself while succinctly conveying the message that he is too stupid to use Google.
- loaf bread — commercially baked bread; store-bought bread.
- loaf sugar — a large conical mass of hard refined sugar; sugar loaf
- loan-shift — change or extension of the meaning of a word through the influence of a foreign word, as in the application in English of the meaning “profession” to the word calling through the influence of Latin vocātio.
- long rifle — Kentucky rifle.
- long-faced — having an unhappy or gloomy expression; glum.
- longed-for — A longed-for thing or event is one that someone wants very much.
- longfellow — Henry Wadsworth [wodz-werth] /ˈwɒdz wərθ/ (Show IPA), 1807–82, U.S. poet.
- look after — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
- looked-for — hoped for
- loose-leaf — (of a book, notebook, etc.) consisting of individual leaves held in a binder (loose-leaf binder) as by rings that open and close, in such a way as to allow their removal, return, or replacement without tearing.
- love feast — (among the early Christians) a meal eaten in token of brotherly love and charity; agape.
- low fulham — a die loaded at one corner either to favor a throw of 4, 5, or 6 (high fulham) or to favor a throw of 1, 2, or 3 (low fulham)
- low relief — bas-relief.
- low-flying — Low-flying aircraft or birds are flying very close to the ground, or lower than normal.
- luciferous — bringing or providing light.
- lucifugous — Shunning the light.
- ludendorff — Erich Friedrich Wilhelm von [ey-rikh free-drikh vil-helm fuh n] /ˈeɪ rɪx ˈfri drɪx ˈvɪl hɛlm fən/ (Show IPA), 1865–1937, German general.
- machoflops — /mach'oh-flops/ A pun on "megaflops" referring to the inflated performance figures often quoted by computer manufacturers. Real application programs are lucky to get half the quoted speed. See Your mileage may vary, benchmark.
- macroflora — Plants that can be seen with the naked eye.
- malefactor — a person who violates the law; criminal.
- malleefowl — Alternative form of mallee fowl.
- malleiform — having the shape of a hammer
- mallowpuff — a white marshmallow on a biscuit base and covered with chocolate
- maned wolf — a South American wild dog, Chrysocyon jubatus, having a shaggy, reddish coat and long ears and legs: now reduced in number.
- manifolded — of many kinds; numerous and varied: manifold duties.
- manifolder — a machine for making manifolds or copies, as of writing.
- manifoldly — In a manifold manner.
- marouflage — a method of attaching a canvas to a wall through adhesion, accomplished by coating the surface with white lead mixed with oil.
- matrifocal — of, relating to, or designating a family unit or structure headed by the mother and lacking a father permanently or for extended periods.
- mefloquine — An antimalarial drug consisting of a fluorinated derivative of quinoline.
- meiofaunal — Pertaining to, or characteristic of, a meiofauna.
- melon foot — a bun foot having vertical channels.
- mesofossil — A fossil of a small part of a plant, such as a fruit, leaf or seed.
- microfilms — Plural form of microfilm.
- microflora — Biology. microscopic plants.
- milk float — a motor vehicle, usually battery powered, in which bottles or cartons of milk and other dairy products are delivered to homes by a daily or regular route.
- millefiore — decorative glass made by fusing multicolored glass canes together, cutting them crosswise, joining them into new groups, embedding the groups in transparent glass, and blowing the resultant mass into a desired shape.
- millefiori — decorative glass made by fusing multicolored glass canes together, cutting them crosswise, joining them into new groups, embedding the groups in transparent glass, and blowing the resultant mass into a desired shape.
- minifloppy — Alternative spelling of mini-floppy.
- mistflower — a North American composite plant, Eupatorium coelestinum, having heads of blue flowers.
- mobssl-uaf — Merritt and Miller's Own Block-Structured Simulation Language-Unpronounceable Acronym For. A l for interactive continuous simulation.