13-letter words containing f, o, t
- legal fiction — an acceptance of something as true, for the sake of convenience; legal pretence
- let off steam — a blast of air or wind: to clean machinery with a blow.
- lethal factor — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
- life-or-death — life-and-death.
- lifted domain — (theory) In domain theory, a domain with a new bottom element added. Given a domain D, the lifted domain, lift D contains an element lift d corresponding to each element d in D with the same ordering as in D and a new element bottom which is less than every other element in lift D. In functional languages, a lifted domain can be used to model a constructed type, e.g. the type data LiftedInt = K Int contains the values K minint .. K maxint and K bottom, corresponding to the values in Int, and a new value bottom. This denotes the fact that when computing a value v = (K n) the computation of either n or v may fail to terminate yielding the values (K bottom) or bottom respectively. (In LaTeX, a lifted domain or element is indicated by a subscript \perp). See also tuple.
- lignification — Turning to wood; the process of becoming ligneous.
- line of sight — Also called line of sighting. an imaginary straight line running through the aligned sights of a firearm, surveying equipment, etc.
- liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
- liquification — Alternative form of liquefaction.
- lithification — the process or processes by which unconsolidated materials are converted into coherent solid rock, as by compaction or cementation.
- little alfold — a plain in NW Hungary and S Slovakia.
- little office — (sometimes initial capital letters) Roman Catholic Church. an office similar to but shorter than the divine office, in honor of a saint, a mystery, or, especially, the Virgin Mary.
- lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).
- loft building — a building of several floors with large areas of unobstructed space, originally rented out for light industrial purposes and now frequently converted to residential occupancy.
- logical shift — (programming) (Either shift left logical or shift right logical) Machine-level operations available on nearly all processors which move each bit in a word one or more bit positions in the given direction. A left shift moves the bits to more significant positions (like multiplying by two), a right shift moves them to less significant positions (like dividing by two). The comparison with multiplication and division breaks down in certain circumstances - a logical shift may discard bits that are shifted off either end of the word and does not preserve the sign of the word (positive or negative). Logical shift is approriate when treating the word as a bit string or a sequence of bit fields, whereas arithmetic shift is appropriate when treating it as a binary number. The word to be shifted is usually stored in a register, or possibly in memory.
- long fin tuna — a tunny, Thunnus alalunga, occurring mainly in warm regions of the Atlantic and Pacific. It has very long pectoral fins and is a valued food fish
- loose-fitting — (of a garment) fitting loosely; not following the contours of the body closely.
- lord of hosts — Jehovah; God.
- lorentz force — the force on a charged particle moving through a region containing both electric and magnetic fields.
- lose sight of — no longer see
- lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
- loss function — (in decision theory) a function that expresses the loss incurred when a decision is made in terms of various factors.
- magnetiferous — (dated) Producing or conducting magnetism.
- magnification — the act of magnifying or the state of being magnified.
- make light of — of little weight; not heavy: a light load.
- make off with — take away
- make sport of — to mock or ridicule; poke fun at
- malformations — Plural form of malformation.
- malfunctional — Not functioning as intended.
- malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
- manifestation — an act of manifesting.
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- market forces — factors driving the economy
- marsh trefoil — buck bean.
- massification — the practice of making luxury products available to the mass market
- matrifocality — The state or condition of being matrifocal; matriarchy.
- matter of law — an issue or matter to be determined according to the relevant principles of law.
- mellification — the production of honey from nectar
- memo function — (programming) (Or "memoised function") A function that remembers which arguments it has been called with and the result returned and, if called with the same arguments again, returns the result from its memory rather than recalculating it. Memo functions were invented by Professor Donald Michie of Edinburgh University. The idea was further developed by Robin Popplestone in his Pop2 language long before it was ever worked into LISP. This same principle is found at the hardware level in computer architectures which use a cache to store recently accessed memory locations. A Common Lisp package by Marty Hall <[email protected]> ftp://archive.cs.umbc.edu/pub/Memoization.
- mesne profits — rents or profits accruing during the rightful owner's exclusion from his land
- metafictional — Of, relating to, or being metafiction.
- metafunctions — Plural form of metafunction.
- metalliferous — containing or yielding metal.
- metrification — metrication.
- 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.
- microsoft dos — Microsoft Disk Operating System
- microsoft iis — Internet Information Server
- modifiability — to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract.
- modifications — Plural form of modification.