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12-letter words containing f, t

  • interleafing — Present participle of interleaf.
  • intertraffic — traffic between two or more places or people
  • iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
  • irreflection — lack of careful or long consideration
  • irreflective — Without mental reflection.
  • isapi filter — (web)   A replaceable DLL which the server calls whenever there is an HTTP request. When the filter is first loaded, it communicates to the server what sort of notifications will be accepted. After that, whenever a selected event occurs, the filter is called to process the event. Example applications of ISAPI filters include custom authentication schemes, compression, encryption, logging, traffic analysis or other request analyses.
  • jeffersonite — (mineralogy) A variety of pyroxene of olive-green color passing into brown. It contains zinc.
  • jet aircraft — A jet aircraft is an aircraft that is powered by one or more jet engines.
  • joint family — a type of extended family composed of parents, their children, and the children's spouses and offspring in one household.
  • joule effect — the generation of heat by the passage of electricity through a resistance.
  • junction fet — Junction Field Effect Transistor
  • justifyingly — to show (an act, claim, statement, etc.) to be just or right: The end does not always justify the means.
  • juventa fons — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed through a telescope.
  • k'ung fu-tse — Chinese name of Confucius.
  • k'ung fu-tzu — Chinese name of Confucius.
  • kaffeeklatch — Alternative spelling of coffee klatch.
  • kentish fire — prolonged clapping by an audience, especially in unison, indicating impatience or disapproval.
  • kitchen foil — aluminium foil used in cooking or storing food
  • knife switch — a form of air switch in which a moving element, usually a hinged blade, is placed between two contact clips.
  • knock it off — stop it
  • krafft-ebing — Richard [rich-erd;; German rikh-ahrt] /ˈrɪtʃ ərd;; German ˈrɪx ɑrt/ (Show IPA), Baron von, 1840–1902, German neurologist and author of works on sexual pathology.
  • kylie effect — the increased awareness of breast cancer caused by the publicity surrounding its diagnosis in Kylie Minogue, born 1968, Australian singer and actress
  • lantern fish — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Myctophidae, having rows of luminous organs along each side, certain species of which migrate to the surface at night.
  • large-format — of or relating to a camera with an image area of 5 inches by 4 inches or more
  • laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
  • latifundista — the owner of a latifundio in Latin America or Spain.
  • leaf lettuce — a type of lettuce having loosely clustered, often curled leaves that are sometimes tinged with red.
  • leaf mustard — a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
  • leaf through — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
  • leaf tobacco — tobacco in leaf form
  • least of all — You can use least of all after a negative statement to emphasize that it applies especially to the person or thing mentioned.
  • left bracket — (character)   "[". ASCII character 91. Common: left square bracket; ITU-T: opening bracket; bracket. Rare: square; INTERCAL: U turn. Paired with right bracket ("]").
  • left fielder — the player whose position is left field.
  • left luggage — baggage stored temporarily
  • left-brained — having the left brain dominant, therefore being more adept at logic, calculation, language, and other thought processes or skills usually associated with the left brain.
  • left-justify — If printed text is left-justified, each line begins at the same distance from the left-hand edge of the page or column.
  • let floating — (programming)   A program transformation used in functional programming to implement full laziness. E.g. the function f x = x + sqrt 4 can be expressed as f x = let t = sqrt 4 in x + t but note that t does not depend on the argument x so we can automatically transform this to t = sqrt 4 f x = x + t Making t into a global constant which need only be evaluated at most once, rather than every time f is called. The general idea is to float each subexpression as far out (toward the top level) as possible to maximise sharing.
  • let fly (at) — to shoot or throw (at)
  • life annuity — any annuity that is contingent upon the survival of the annuitant or annuitants, especially an annuity that terminates with the death of a single annuitant.
  • life history — the series of living phenomena exhibited by an organism in the course of its development from inception to death.
  • life partner — one member of a monogamous relationship.
  • life support — equipment to sustain a patient's life
  • life tenancy — holding a tenancy until the holder dies
  • life-support — of or relating to equipment or measures that sustain or artificially substitute for essential body functions, as breathing or disposal of body wastes: Without life-support equipment, the patient might die.
  • lifestreamer — a person who provides an online record of his or her life, either by means of live video footage or via an online collection of social network updates, blogs, and photos
  • lifting body — an aircraft or spacecraft configuration in which there are no wings, and lift is obtained by aerodynamic forces on its body.
  • lifting sail — a sail that when filled tends to raise the hull of a ship or boat (opposed to driving sail).
  • light-footed — stepping lightly or nimbly; light of foot; nimble.
  • lighter fuel — the fuel used in a cigarette or cigar lighter
  • line of site — a straight line from the muzzle of an artillery gun to its target.
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