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13-letter words containing f, u, l, i, n

  • flow function — The flow function is the relationship between the strength of a compact and the degree of compaction.
  • fluctuational — Of, pertaining to, or resulting from fluctuation(s).
  • flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
  • flunitrazepam — a powerful benzodiazepine sedative, C 16 H 12 FN 3 O 3 , that causes semiconsciousness and memory blackouts: has been implicated in date rapes and is illegal in the U.S.
  • fluoroscoping — Present participle of fluoroscope.
  • flying circus — a squadron of airplanes operating together, especially any of several squadrons of famous World War I aviators.
  • flying column — (formerly) a force of troops equipped and organized to move swiftly and independently of a principal unit to which it is attached.
  • flying saucer — any of various disk-shaped objects allegedly seen flying at high speeds and altitudes, often with extreme changes in speed and direction, and thought by some to be manned by intelligent beings from outer space.
  • fn tunnelling — Fowler-Nordheim tunnelling
  • fold function — (programming)   In functional programming, fold or "reduce" is a kind of higher-order function that takes as arguments a function, an initial "accumulator" value and a data structure (often a list). In Haskell, the two flavours of fold for lists, called foldl and foldr are defined like this: foldl :: (a -> b -> a) -> a -> [b] -> a foldl f z [] = z foldl f z (x:xs) = foldl f (f z x) xs foldr :: (a -> b -> b) -> b -> [a] -> b foldr f z [] = z foldr f z (x:xs) = f x (foldr f z xs) In both cases, if the input list is empty, the result is the value of the accumulator, z. If not, foldl takes the head of the list, x, and returns the result of recursing on the tail of the list using (f z x) as the new z. foldr returns (f x q) where q is the result of recursing on the tail. The "l" and "r" in the names refer to the associativity of the application of f. Thus if f = (+) (the binary plus operator used as a function of two arguments), we have: foldl (+) 0 [1, 2, 3] = (((0 + 1) + 2) + 3 (applying + left associatively) and foldr (+) 0 [1, 2, 3] = 0 + (1 + (2 + 3)) (applying + right associatively). For +, this makes no difference but for an non-commutative operator it would.
  • fontainebleau — a town in N France, SE of Paris: famous palace, long a favorite residence of French kings; extensive forest.
  • fooling about — the act of speaking or acting in a playful, teasing, or jesting manner
  • formularising — Present participle of formularise.
  • formularizing — Present participle of formularize.
  • foul-smelling — having a very unpleasant smell
  • four-wheeling — traveling in a vehicle using four-wheel drive.
  • frelinghuysen — Frederick Theodore, 1817–85, U.S. statesman.
  • freudian slip — (in Freudian psychology) an inadvertent mistake in speech or writing that is thought to reveal a person's unconscious motives, wishes, or attitudes.
  • frightfulness — The quality of being frightful.
  • frivolousness — characterized by lack of seriousness or sense: frivolous conduct.
  • fruitlessness — The quality of being fruitless.
  • frustratingly — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
  • fuel injector — injector (def 2b).
  • fuel-injected — (of an engine) having fuel injection.
  • fulani empire — a powerful W African Muslim state that flourished in the 19th century in the area of present-day Nigeria.
  • full laziness — (functional programming)   A transformation, described by Wadsworth in 1971, which ensures that subexpressions in a function body which do not depend on the function's arguments are only evaluated once. E.g. each time the function f x = x + sqrt 4 is applied, (sqrt 4) will be evaluated. Since (sqrt 4) does not depend on x, we could transform this to: f x = x + sqrt4 sqrt4 = sqrt 4 We have replaced the dynamically created (sqrt 4) with a single shared constant which, in a graph reduction system, will be evaluated the first time it is needed and then updated with its value. See also fully lazy lambda lifting, let floating.
  • fulminic acid — an unstable acid, CNOH, isomeric with cyanic acid, and known only in the form of its salts.
  • funambulation — the act of walking on a tightrope; funambulism
  • functionalise — to make functional.
  • functionalism — (usually initial capital letter) Chiefly Architecture, Furniture. a design movement evolved from several previous movements or schools in Europe in the early 20th century, advocating the design of buildings, furnishings, etc., as direct fulfillments of material requirements, as for shelter, repose, or the serving of food, with the construction, materials, and purpose clearly expressed or at least not denied, and with aesthetic effect derived chiefly from proportions and finish, purely decorative effects being excluded or greatly subordinated. the doctrines and practices associated with this movement. Compare rationalism (def 4).
  • functionalist — a person who advocates, or works according to, the principles of functionalism.
  • functionality — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • functionalize — to make functional.
  • furshlugginer — crazy; foolish
  • futilitarians — Plural form of futilitarian.
  • geminiflorous — having flowers arranged in pairs.
  • genuflections — Plural form of genuflection.
  • glue sniffing — the inhaling of the fumes of certain kinds of glue for the hallucinogenic or euphoric effect.
  • glue-sniffing — the inhaling of the fumes of certain kinds of glue for the hallucinogenic or euphoric effect.
  • golfe du lion — French name of the Gulf of Lions.
  • granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
  • gulf of lions — a wide bay of the Mediterranean off the S coast of France, between the Spanish border and Toulon
  • half coupling — a flange fixed at the end of each of the two shafts that are connected in a flange coupling
  • half mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  • half-mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  • hunting rifle — shotgun used to kill game
  • ichneumon fly — any of numerous wasplike insects of the family Ichneumonidae, the larvae of which are parasitic on caterpillars and immature stages of other insects.
  • ichthyofaunal — relating to ichthyofauna
  • impactfulness — The quality of being impactful.
  • in default of — If something happens in default of something else, it happens because that other thing does not happen or proves to be impossible.
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