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17-letter words containing l, i, f, t, e, r

  • george whitefield — George, 1714–70, English Methodist evangelist.
  • golf ball printer — IBM 2741
  • grapefruit league — a series of training games played by major-league teams before the opening of the season (so named because they take place in the citrus-growing South, as in Florida).
  • great rift valley — a series of rift valleys running from N to S, from the Jordan Valley in SW Asia to Mozambique in SE Africa.
  • great vowel shift — a series of changes in the quality of the long vowels between Middle and Modern English as a result of which all were raised, while the high vowels (ē) and (o̅o̅), already at the upper limit, underwent breaking to become the diphthongs (ī) and (ou).
  • hairline fracture — a very fine crack in a bone
  • hit for the cycle — any complete round or series of occurrences that repeats or is repeated.
  • hyperinflationary — (economics) Having very high levels of inflation.
  • immunofluorescent — Of, pertaining to, or using immunofluorescence.
  • in the front line — Someone who is in the front line has to play a very important part in defending or achieving something.
  • incomplete flower — a flower without one or more of the normal parts, as carpels, sepals, petals, pistils, or stamens.
  • inertial platform — self-contained navigational devices used in inertial guidance, along with their mounting.
  • infinite integral — improper integral (def 1).
  • instrument flying — the control and navigation of an aircraft by reference to its gauges, with no or only limited visual reference outside the cockpit.
  • integral function — an entire function.
  • interconfessional — common to or occurring between churches having different confessions.
  • internal conflict — psychological struggle within the mind of a literary or dramatic character, the resolution of which creates the plot's suspense: Hamlet's inaction is caused by internal conflict.
  • interprofessional — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
  • intraspecifically — Between individuals of the same species.
  • it's your funeral — If someone says to you 'It's your funeral', they think your decision or your actions will have bad consequences for you, but they are unwilling to interfere.
  • law of reflection — the principle that when a ray of light, radar pulse, or the like, is reflected from a smooth surface the angle of reflection is equal to the angle of incidence, and the incident ray, the reflected ray, and the normal to the surface at the point of incidence all lie in the same plane.
  • law of refraction — the principle that for a ray, radar pulse, or the like, that is incident on the interface of two media, the ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence to the sine of the angle of refraction is equal to the ratio of the velocity of the ray in the first medium to the velocity in the second medium and the incident ray, refracted ray, and normal to the surface at the point of incidence all lie in the same plane.
  • leg before wicket — a manner of dismissal on the grounds that a batsman has been struck on the leg by a bowled ball that otherwise would have hit the wicket
  • liberty of speech — freedom of speech.
  • lie in wait (for) — to wait so as to catch after planning an ambush or trap (for)
  • life and/or death — If you say that something is a matter of life and death, you are emphasizing that it is extremely important, often because someone may die or suffer great harm if people do not act immediately.
  • life imprisonment — long-term prison sentence
  • life of the party — most lively, outgoing person
  • litigation friend — a person acting on behalf of an infant or other person under legal disability
  • little fork river — a river in N Minnesota, flowing N to the Rainy River on the Canadian border. 132 miles (212 km) long.
  • lord of the flies — a novel (1954) by William Golding.
  • lower forty-eight — the forty-eight conterminous states of the United States
  • microfilm plotter — a type of incremental plotter that has a film rather than a paper output
  • multiplier effect — the effect of government spending on national income
  • non-proliferation — Non-proliferation is the limiting of the production and spread of something such as nuclear or chemical weapons.
  • noninertial frame — a frame of reference that moves with the object, so that the moving object appears to violate Newton's laws of motion since it accelerates despite having no horizontal forces on it.
  • not lift a finger — any of the terminal members of the hand, especially one other than the thumb.
  • off-year election — (in the US) an election held in a year when a presidential election does not take place
  • oil of turpentine — a colorless, flammable, volatile essential oil having a penetrating odor and a pungent, bitter taste, obtained from turpentine oleoresin by distillation: used in paints and varnishes, and in medicine as a carminative, vermifuge, expectorant, rubefacient, and, formerly, as a diuretic.
  • one-parent family — A one-parent family is a family that consists of one parent and his or her children living together.
  • past life therapy — a form of hypnosis or meditation based on the belief that an individual's present problems are rooted in events that occurred before birth in this life
  • peridot of ceylon — a honey-colored tourmaline, used as a gem: not a true peridot.
  • petrol filler cap — a small cover that goes over the hole in a vehicle into which you put petrol
  • plumbing fixtures — things such as pipes, sinks, toilets that are fixed in position in a building
  • polarizing filter — a camera lens filter used to control the plane of polarization of light entering the lens.
  • political refugee — a person who has fled from a homeland because of political persecution.
  • portfolio manager — a person employed by others to make investments for them
  • pre-qualification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
  • prefect apostolic — the administrator, usually below the rank of bishop, in charge of a prefecture apostolic.
  • preferential shop — a shop in which union members are preferred, usually by agreement of an employer with a union.
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