14-letter words containing l, e, f
- hold the field — to maintain one's position in the face of opposition
- hold your fire — If someone holds their fire or holds fire, they stop shooting or they wait before they start shooting.
- holy of holies — a place of special sacredness.
- hopfield model — Hopfield network
- horn of plenty — cornucopia.
- house of lords — the nonelective, upper house of the British Parliament, comprising the lords spiritual and lords temporal.
- hyperinflation — extreme or excessive inflation.
- if it kills me — If you say that you will do something if it kills you, you are emphasizing that you are determined to do it even though it is extremely difficult or painful.
- ill-suited for — unsuitable for something
- in all my life — You can use in all my life or in my life to emphasize that you have never previously experienced something to such a degree.
- in fine fettle — If you say that someone or something is in fine fettle, you mean that they are in very good health or condition.
- in full career — at full speed
- in lieu of sth — If you do, get, or give one thing in lieu of another, you do, get, or give it instead of the other thing, because the two things are considered to have the same value or importance.
- in single file — one behind another
- indefinability — The quality of being indefinable.
- indie landfill — a derogatory term for indie music considered to be mediocre
- ineffectuality — not effectual; without satisfactory or decisive effect: an ineffectual remedy.
- inertial force — an imaginary force which an accelerated observer postulates so that he can use the equations appropriate to an inertial observer
- infeasibleness — The quality of being infeasible.
- infelicitously — In a way that is infelicitous or unfortunate.
- inference rule — (logic) A procedure which combines known facts to produce ("infer") new facts. For example, given that 1. Socrates is a man and that 2. all men are motal, we can infer that Socrates is mortal. This uses the rule known as "modus ponens" which can be written in Boolean algebra as (A & A => B) => B (if proposition A is true, and A implies B, then B is true). Or given that, 1. Either Denis is programming or Denis is sad and 2. Denis is not sad, we can infer that Denis is programming. This rule can be written ((A OR B) & not B) => A (If either A is true or B is true (or both), and B is false, then A must be true). Compare syllogism.
- infinitesimals — Plural form of infinitesimal.
- inflammatories — Plural form of inflammatory.
- inflation rate — economy: price increase
- inflectionless — Without inflection.
- inflexibleness — The quality or state of being inflexible; inflexibility; rigidity; firmness.
- inflorescences — Plural form of inflorescence.
- infopreneurial — of or relating to the manufacture or sales of electronic office or factory equipment designed to distribute information
- infratentorial — (anatomy) refers to a location below the tentorium cerebelli.
- infundibulated — Funnel-shaped.
- insightfulness — The state or condition of being insightful.
- insufficiently — not sufficient; lacking in what is necessary or required: an insufficient answer.
- interferential — of or relating to interference.
- interfibrillar — situated between fibrils.
- interfraternal — of or befitting a brother or brothers; brotherly.
- interinfluence — to influence reciprocally or mutually
- intestinal flu — influenza with abdominal symptoms, as diarrhea or vomiting.
- isle of france — Île-de-France
- isle of thanet — an island in SE England, in NE Kent, separated from the mainland by two branches of the River Stour: scene of many Norse invasions. Area: 109 sq km (42 sq miles)
- jackknife clam — any bivalve mollusk of the family Solenidae, especially of the genus Ensis, having a long, rectangular, slightly curved shell.
- jeffersonville — a city in S Indiana, on the Ohio River.
- john of leyden — Lucas van Leyden.
- jungle warfare — the specialized techniques required by the military to survive and fight in jungle terrain
- kabalega falls — rapids on the lower Victoria Nile, about 35 km (22 miles) east of Lake Albert, where the Nile drops 120 m (400 ft)
- kaffee klatsch — coffee klatsch.
- kaffeeklatches — Plural form of kaffeeklatch.
- kaieteur falls — a river in central Guyana: (Kaieteur Falls) one of highest waterfalls in the world at 741 feet (226 meters). 100 miles (161 km) long.
- kaieteur-falls — a river in central Guyana: (Kaieteur Falls) one of highest waterfalls in the world at 741 feet (226 meters). 100 miles (161 km) long.
- keep the field — to continue activity, as in games or military operations
- keep-fit class — an exercise class designed to promote physical fitness