13-letter words containing l, i, f, e, c
- pacific plate — Geology. one of the major tectonic divisions of the earth's crust, comprising four sea-floor basins; separated from the Nazca, Cocos, and North and South American plates by the East Pacific Rise and San Andreas fault and bounded in the western Pacific Ocean by a series of major ocean deeps, including the Kuril, Japan, Mariana, Kermadec, and Tonga trenches.
- penicilliform — in the shape of a pencil or paintbrush
- perfunctorily — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- physical file — (file system) A low-level view of the physical characteristics of a file, such as its location on a disk or its physical structure, for example, whether indexed or sequential.
- pickerel frog — a meadow frog, Rana palustris, common in eastern North America, similar to the leopard frog but with squarish dark spots on the back.
- pilot officer — A pilot officer is an officer of low rank in the British Royal Air Force.
- plebification — the act of making popular or vulgar
- police office — a geographical administrative division within an area patrolled by a police force
- prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- public office — position in government
- qualificative — That which qualifies, modifies, or restricts; a qualifying term or statement.
- raffle ticket — a ticket sold in a raffle, representing a chance to win a prize
- reflex-action — Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
- refocillation — the restoring of strength by refreshment or revivement
- reinforceable — capable of being reinforced
- relief agency — an organization that provides aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
- retroflection — a bending backward.
- ripple effect — a spreading effect or series of consequences caused by a single action or event.
- role conflict — emotional conflict arising when competing demands are made on an individual in the fulfillment of his or her multiple social roles.
- sacrifice fly — a fly ball when there are fewer than two players out that enables a base runner, usually at third base, to score after the ball is caught.
- scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
- school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
- school friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
- second fiddle — a secondary role: to play second fiddle to another person.
- self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
- self-chastise — to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
- self-cleaning — an act or instance of making clean: Give the house a good cleaning.
- self-conflict — to come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash: The account of one eyewitness conflicted with that of the other. My class conflicts with my going to the concert.
- self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
- self-critical — capable of criticizing oneself objectively.
- self-deceived — holding an erroneous opinion of oneself, one's own effort, or the like.
- self-directed — guided, regulated, or managed: a carefully directed program.
- self-effacing — the act or fact of keeping oneself in the background, as in humility.
- self-incurred — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
- self-medicate — to medicate oneself without consulting a physician
- self-occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- self-policing — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
- self-reliance — reliance on oneself or one's own powers, resources, etc.
- self-ridicule — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
- self-security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
- self-violence — swift and intense force: the violence of a storm.
- semi-official — having some degree of official authority.
- service rifle — a rifle that is issued as standard to soldiers of an army or armed force
- sidewalk café — a café that has seats outside on the sidewalk
- slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
- slice of life — accurate depiction of reality
- slice-of-life — of, relating to, or being a naturalistic, unembellished representation of real life: a play with slice-of-life dialogue.
- special offer — bargain
- special staff — all staff officers assigned to headquarters of a division or higher unit who are not members of the general staff or personal staff.
- superficially — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.