13-letter words containing i, r, t, f
- internet-cafe — a café, coffee bar, etc., that offers Internet access on its own computers or on customer's laptops, usually for a fee.
- interspecific — existing or occurring between species.
- interstratify — to lie in interposed or alternate strata.
- intolerant of — not able or willing to tolerate
- intraspecific — existing or occurring within a species.
- justificatory — serving to justify; providing justification.
- killing frost — the occurrence of temperatures cold enough to kill all but the hardiest vegetation, especially the last such occurrence in spring and the first in fall, events that limit the agricultural growing season.
- landing craft — any of various flat-bottomed vessels designed to move troops and equipment close to shore.
- leafleteering — The printing and distribution of leaflets, especially as propaganda.
- life interest — interest on property that is payable during the owner's lifetime but cannot be passed on to another or others after his or her death.
- life-or-death — life-and-death.
- lift a finger — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- lighter flint — the small piece of flint in a lighter pressure on which creates a spark that ignites the fuel
- lighter fluid — a combustible fluid used in cigarette, cigar, and pipe lighters.
- little finger — the finger farthest from the thumb, the smallest of the five fingers.
- lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).
- lucifer match — friction match.
- magnetiferous — (dated) Producing or conducting magnetism.
- malformations — Plural form of malformation.
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- manufacturing — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- marsh trefoil — buck bean.
- materfamilias — the mother of a family.
- matrifocality — The state or condition of being matrifocal; matriarchy.
- mesne profits — rents or profits accruing during the rightful owner's exclusion from his land
- metalcrafting — metalworking.
- 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
- miracle fruit — the berrylike fruit of either of two African shrubs, Synsepalum dulcificum or Thaumatococcus daniellii, that, when chewed, causes sour substances to taste sweet.
- mistrustfully — In a mistrustful manner.
- 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.
- morning after — a period, as in the morning, when the aftereffects of excessive self-indulgence during the previous evening are felt, especially the aftereffects of excessive drinking of alcoholic beverages.
- mortification — a feeling of humiliation or shame, as through some injury to one's pride or self-respect.
- mother figure — a woman embodying or seeming to embody the qualities of an idealized conception of the female parent, eliciting from others the emotional responses that a child typically has toward its mother.
- motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- multifactoral — Involving multiple factors.
- multiplatform — Compatible with or involving more than one type of computer or operating system.
- multiramified — having several branches or branchlike parts
- myelofibrotic — of, relating to or affected by myelofibrosis
- myofibroblast — (cytology) A cell that is intermediate between a fibroblast and smooth muscle.
- myrtle family — the plant family Myrtaceae, characterized by mostly tropical trees and shrubs having aromatic, simple, usually opposite leaves, clusters of flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including allspice, clove, eucalyptus, guava, and myrtles of the genus Myrtus.
- nanofortnight — (jargon) (Adelaide University) 10^-9 fortnights or about 1.2 milliseconds. This unit was used largely by students doing undergraduate practicals. See microfortnight, attoparsec, and micro-.
- narrow-fisted — tight-fisted.
- nectariferous — producing nectar.
- neurofilament — (anatomy) A neurofibril.
- night fighter — an interceptor aircraft used for operations at night