11-letter words containing l, e, a, f, n
- influential — having or exerting influence, especially great influence: three influential educators.
- infomercial — a long commercial that informs or instructs, especially in an original and entertaining manner: an infomercial on making Christmas decorations using the sponsor's brand of glue.
- infrangible — that cannot be broken or separated; unbreakable: infrangible moral strength.
- insufflated — Simple past tense and past participle of insufflate.
- interfacial — included between two faces.
- interfamily — a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not: the traditional family. a social unit consisting of one or more adults together with the children they care for: a single-parent family.
- interleafed — Simple past tense and past participle of interleaf.
- intreatfull — full of entreaty
- isle of man — Isle of, an island of the British Isles, in the Irish Sea. 227 sq. mi. (588 sq. km). Capital: Douglas.
- jargon file — (jargon, publication, humour) The on-line hacker Jargon File maintained by Eric S. Raymond. A large collection of definitions of computing terms, including much wit, wisdom, and history. See also Yellow Book, Jargon.
- juan flores — Juan José [hwahn haw-se] /ʰwɑn hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1800–64, Ecuadorian general and statesman: president 1830–35, 1839–45.
- knife pleat — a sharply creased narrow pleat, usually one of a series folded in the same direction.
- la fontaine — Henri [French ahn-ree] /French ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1854–1943, Belgian statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1913.
- la fresnaye — Roger de [raw-zhey duh] /rɔˈʒeɪ də/ (Show IPA), 1885–1925, French painter.
- labefaction — Deterioration or downfall.
- lactoferrin — a glycoprotein present in milk, especially human milk, and supplying iron to suckling infants.
- lady friend — female companion
- ladyfingers — Plural form of ladyfinger.
- lancet fish — any large, marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- land freeze — a legal restraint on the sale or transfer of land.
- land office — a government office for the transaction of business relating to public lands.
- land reform — any program, especially when undertaken by a national government, involving the redistribution of agricultural land among the landless.
- lantern fly — any of several large tropical insects of the family Fulgoridae, formerly thought to be luminescent.
- lanternfish — 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.
- leaf insect — any of several orthopterous insects of the family Phillidae, of southern Asia and the East Indies, having a body that resembles a leaf in color and form.
- leaf spring — a long, narrow, multiple spring composed of several layers of spring metal bracketed together: used in some suspension systems of carriages and automobiles.
- left-handed — having the left hand more dominant or effective than the right; preferably using the left hand: a left-handed pitcher.
- left-hander — a person who is left-handed, especially a baseball pitcher who throws with the left hand.
- ley farming — the alternation at intervals of several years of crop growing and grassland pasture
- life-saving — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
- lifeboatman — a sailor qualified to take charge of a lifeboat or life raft.
- lifecasting — The creation of a three-dimensional copy of a living body by means of molding and casting techniques.
- lifemanship — the ability to conduct one's life, career, personal relationships, etc., in a successful manner.
- lindisfarne — Holy Island (def 1).
- loan office — an office for making loans or receiving payments on loans.
- lone father — a father with no wife or partner, who is bringing up a child or children
- loriciferan — (zoology) Any of several marine animals of the phylum Loricifera.
- malefaction — an evil deed; crime; wrongdoing.
- maleficence — the doing of evil or harm: the maleficence of thieves.
- maleficient — Doing evil, harm, or mischief.
- malfeasance — the performance by a public official of an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law; wrongdoing (used especially of an act in violation of a public trust). Compare misfeasance (def 2), nonfeasance.
- mantelshelf — mantel (def 2).
- marine life — plants and animals of the sea
- misbefallen — Simple past tense and past participle of misbefall.
- myofilament — a threadlike filament of actin or myosin that is a component of a myofibril.
- needlecraft — needlework.
- nefariously — extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous: a nefarious plot.
- new flavors — An object-oriented Lisp from Symbolics, the successor to Flavors, it led to CLOS.
- new-fangled — If someone describes a new idea or a new piece of equipment as new-fangled, they mean that it is too complicated or is unnecessary.
- non-fragile — easily broken, shattered, or damaged; delicate; brittle; frail: a fragile ceramic container; a very fragile alliance.