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13-letter words containing l, o, e, f

  • gulf of gabès — an inlet of the Mediterranean on the E coast of Tunisia
  • hair follicle — a small cavity in the epidermis and corium of the skin, from which a hair develops.
  • halfway house — an inn or stopping place situated approximately midway between two places on a road.
  • hall of famer — a person who has been accepted into a Hall of Fame.
  • heart of palm — the stripped terminal bud of a cabbage palm, especially of the genus Euterpe, eaten in salads or as a vegetable.
  • helen of troy — Also called Helen of Troy. Classical Mythology. the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda and wife of Menelaus whose abduction by Paris was the cause of the Trojan War.
  • help off with — If you help someone off with an item of clothing, you help them take it off.
  • hill of beans — something of trifling value; virtually nothing at all: The problem didn't amount to a hill of beans.
  • hold the fort — a strong or fortified place occupied by troops and usually surrounded by walls, ditches, and other defensive works; a fortress; fortification.
  • homofullerene — (chemistry) Any of various compounds formally derived from a fullerene by the insertion of a methylene group between adjacent carbon atoms.
  • hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
  • ichneumon fly — any of numerous wasplike insects of the family Ichneumonidae, the larvae of which are parasitic on caterpillars and immature stages of other insects.
  • if you please — expressing mild outrage
  • in default of — If something happens in default of something else, it happens because that other thing does not happen or proves to be impossible.
  • in-capable of — not capable.
  • inconformable — Obsolete form of unconformable.
  • inferolateral — (anatomy) Both inferior and lateral.
  • infiltrometer — a device used to measure the infiltration capacity of a soil.
  • infinite loop — (programming)   (Or "endless loop") Where a piece of program is executed repeatedly with no hope of stopping. This is nearly always because of a bug, e.g. if the condition for exiting the loop is wrong, though it may be intentional if the program is controlling an embedded system which is supposed to run continuously until it is turned off. The programmer may also intend the program to run until interrupted by the user. An endless loop may also be used as a last-resort error handler when no other action is appropriate. This is used in some operating system kernels following a panic. A program executing an infinite loop is said to spin or buzz forever and goes catatonic. The program is "wound around the axle". A standard joke has been made about each generation's exemplar of the ultra-fast machine: "The Cray-3 is so fast it can execute an infinite loop in under 2 seconds!" See also black hole, recursion, infinite loop.
  • inflorescence — a flowering or blossoming.
  • informal vote — an invalid vote or ballot
  • informalities — Plural form of informality.
  • informatively — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
  • informercials — Plural form of informercial.
  • inoffensively — In an inoffensive manner.
  • intolerant of — not able or willing to tolerate
  • isle of capri — Capri.
  • isle of pines — Isle of, former name of Youth, Isle of.
  • isle of wight — Isle of, an island off the S coast of England, forming an administrative division of Hampshire. 147 sq. mi. (381 sq. km). County seat: Newport.
  • isle of youth — Isle of, an island in the Caribbean, a special municipality in S Cuba. 1182 sq. mi. (3060 sq. km).
  • japanese wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus hodophylax, of Japan.
  • jellification — The process or result of jellifying.
  • john fletcher — John, 1579–1625, English dramatist: collaborated with Francis Beaumont 1606?–16; with Philip Massinger 1613–25.
  • john wycliffe — John, c1320–84, English theologian, religious reformer, and Biblical translator.
  • labor of love — work done for the sake of one's own enjoyment or of benefit to others rather than for material rewards: He coached amateur baseball teams as a labor of love.
  • landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
  • law of effect — another name for Thorndike's law
  • law of nature — an empirical truth of great generality, conceived of as a physical (but not a logical) necessity, and consequently licensing counterfactual conditionals
  • leap of faith — to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch.
  • leap-frogging — a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
  • leapfrog test — a diagnostic technique using arithmetic or logical operations in a routine to manage the capacity of storage media, transfer data, and check the results.
  • leg-of-mutton — having the triangular shape of a leg of mutton: leg-of-mutton sail; a dress with leg-of-mutton sleeves.
  • legal fiction — an acceptance of something as true, for the sake of convenience; legal pretence
  • legal offence — a crime that breaks a particular law and requires a particular punishment
  • let off steam — a blast of air or wind: to clean machinery with a blow.
  • lethal factor — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
  • life of riley — a carefree, comfortable, and thoroughly enjoyable way of living: Since winning the lottery, he's led the life of Riley.
  • life-or-death — life-and-death.
  • lifted domain — (theory)   In domain theory, a domain with a new bottom element added. Given a domain D, the lifted domain, lift D contains an element lift d corresponding to each element d in D with the same ordering as in D and a new element bottom which is less than every other element in lift D. In functional languages, a lifted domain can be used to model a constructed type, e.g. the type data LiftedInt = K Int contains the values K minint .. K maxint and K bottom, corresponding to the values in Int, and a new value bottom. This denotes the fact that when computing a value v = (K n) the computation of either n or v may fail to terminate yielding the values (K bottom) or bottom respectively. (In LaTeX, a lifted domain or element is indicated by a subscript \perp). See also tuple.
  • like-for-like — (of a comparison, figures, statistics) that measure identical things, the same period in different years, etc
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