13-letter words containing f, o, r, e, l, i
- goldie's fern — a wood fern, Dryopteris goldiana, of northeastern North America, having large, golden-green, leathery fronds with blades that tilt backward.
- granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
- hair follicle — a small cavity in the epidermis and corium of the skin, from which a hair develops.
- hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
- inconformable — Obsolete form of unconformable.
- inferolateral — (anatomy) Both inferior and lateral.
- infiltrometer — a device used to measure the infiltration capacity of a soil.
- inflorescence — a flowering or blossoming.
- informal vote — an invalid vote or ballot
- informalities — Plural form of informality.
- informatively — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- informercials — Plural form of informercial.
- intolerant of — not able or willing to tolerate
- isle of capri — Capri.
- landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
- leap-frogging — a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
- life of riley — a carefree, comfortable, and thoroughly enjoyable way of living: Since winning the lottery, he's led the life of Riley.
- life-or-death — life-and-death.
- like-for-like — (of a comparison, figures, statistics) that measure identical things, the same period in different years, etc
- 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
- lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).
- longsuffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
- mammaliferous — containing the remains of mammals
- marsh trefoil — buck bean.
- metalliferous — containing or yielding metal.
- microfelsitic — (of a rock) showing evidence of crystallization having begun, but not yet having formed any crystals
- microfilament — a minute, narrow tubelike cell structure composed of a protein similar to actin, occurring singly and in bundles, involved in cytoplasmic movement and changes in cell shape.
- microfilariae — the embryonic larva of the nematode parasite Filaria or of related genera, especially of those species that cause heartworm in dogs and elephantiasis in humans.
- microfilmable — Suitable for storage on microfilm.
- microfloppies — 3.5-inch floppies, as opposed to 5.25-inch vanilla or mini-floppies and the now-obsolete 8-inch variety. This term may be headed for obsolescence as 5.25-inchers pass out of use, only to be revived if anybody floats a sub-3-inch floppy standard. See stiffy, minifloppies.
- milford haven — a bay in SW Wales.
- mole fraction — the ratio of the number of moles of a given component of a mixture to the total number of moles of all the components.
- myelofibrosis — the replacement of bone marrow by fibrous tissue, characteristic of leukemia and certain other diseases.
- myelofibrotic — of, relating to or affected by myelofibrosis
- naval officer — member of navy staff
- neurofilament — (anatomy) A neurofibril.
- never offline — (software) (NOL) /noh-el/ A software service provided by America's Multimedia Online that allows Internet users to be constantly connected to the Internet.
- nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
- non-frangible — easily broken; breakable: Most frangible toys are not suitable for young children.
- nonfilterable — incapable of being filtered
- nonprofitable — Not profitable; not making profit.
- nonrefillable — Not refillable; unable to be refilled.
- nonreflecting — Not reflecting.
- nonreflective — Not reflective.
- odoriferously — In an odoriferous manner.
- off the rails — into or in a state of dysfunction or disorder
- off-side rule — A lexical convention due to Landin, allowing the scope of declarations in a program to be expressed by indentation. Any non-whitespace token to the left of the first such token on the previous line is taken to be the start of a new declaration. Used in, for example, Miranda and Haskell.
- office-holder — An office-holder is a person who has an important official position in an organization or government.
- officeholders — Plural form of officeholder.
- old favourite — If you refer to something as an old favourite, you mean that it has been in existence for a long time and everyone knows it or likes it.