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

  • extemporarily — In an extemporary manner.
  • exterritorial — Beyond the territorial limits; foreign to, or exempt from, the territorial jurisdiction.
  • extrapersonal — Outside of a person; beyond what is personal or individual.
  • extrapolating — Present participle of extrapolate.
  • extrapolation — (mathematics) A calculation of an estimate of the value of some function outside the range of known values.
  • extrapolative — That serves to extrapolate.
  • extrasystoles — Plural form of extrasystole.
  • extrasystolia — (medicine) An alteration in the rhythm of the heart due to extrasystoles.
  • extrasystolic — Relating to extrasystole, the premature contraction of the heart.
  • extratropical — Occurring outside the tropics, usually in temperate latitudes.
  • extremophiles — Plural form of extremophile.
  • false colours — a flag to which one is not entitled, flown esp in order to deceive
  • false horizon — a line or plane that simulates the horizon, used in altitude-measuring devices or the like.
  • false saffron — a red dye used for cotton and for colouring foods and cosmetics, or a drug obtained from the florets of this plant
  • fanfold paper — continuous paper perforated at regular intervals, as used in a dot-matrix printer
  • fare-you-well — a state of perfection: The meal was done to a fare-thee-well.
  • farm labourer — a person engaged in physical work on a farm
  • farm-to-table — noting or relating to fresh, locally sourced food sold to local consumers or restaurants: farm-to-table meats and seasonal vegetables.
  • faroe islands — islands in Atlantic Ocean
  • fast follower — a company that is quick to pick up good new ideas from other companies
  • fat electrons — (electronics, humour)   Old-time hacker David Cargill's theory on the cause of computer glitches. Your typical electricity company draws its line current out of the big generators with a pair of coil taps located near the top of the dynamo. When the normal tap brushes get dirty, they take them off line to clean them up, and use special auxiliary taps on the *bottom* of the coil. Now, this is a problem, because when they do that they get not ordinary or "thin" electrons, but the fat sloppy electrons that are heavier and so settle to the bottom of the generator. These flow down ordinary wires just fine, but when they have to turn a sharp corner (as in an integrated-circuit via), they're apt to get stuck. This is what causes computer glitches. Compare bogon, magic smoke.
  • favorableness — Alternative spelling of favourableness.
  • federal court — a court of a federal government, especially one established under the Constitution of the United States.
  • feeder school — a junior school whose pupils go to a specific secondary school
  • fellow member — someone who is a member of the same organization or society as you
  • fellow worker — someone you work with
  • felony murder — a killing treated as a murder because, though unintended, it occurred during the commission or attempted commission of a felony, as robbery.
  • ferroaluminum — a ferroalloy containing up to 80 percent aluminum.
  • ferroelectric — pertaining to a substance that possesses spontaneous electric polarization such that the polarization can be reversed by an electric field.
  • fertilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of 'fertilization'.
  • fertilization — an act, process, or instance of fertilizing.
  • festivalgoers — Plural form of festivalgoer.
  • fiddle around — waste time doing sth trivial
  • field of fire — the area covered by a weapon or group of weapons firing from a given position.
  • field officer — an officer holding a field grade.
  • field servoid — (jargon, abuse)   /fee'ld ser'voyd/ A play on "android", a derogatory term for a representative of a field service organisation (see field circus), suggesting an unintelligent rule-driven approach to servicing computer hardware.
  • field sparrow — a common North American finch, Spizella pusilla, found in brushy pasturelands.
  • fighter pilot — sb who pilots a bomber plane
  • filibusterous — resembling a filibuster or the actions of a filibuster
  • film recorder — a photographic device for producing a sound strip on a motion-picture film.
  • filmographies — Plural form of filmography.
  • filter coffee — coffee made by filtering hot water through ground coffee
  • filter factor — a number indicating the increased exposure that a particular film should receive when a photograph is taken using a particular filter.
  • firewall code — 1. The code you put in a system (say, a telephone switch) to make sure that the users can't do any damage. Since users always want to be able to do everything but never want to suffer for any mistakes, the construction of a firewall is a question not only of defensive coding but also of interface presentation, so that users don't even get curious about those corners of a system where they can burn themselves. 2. Any sanity check inserted to catch a can't happen error. Wise programmers often change code to fix a bug twice: once to fix the bug, and once to insert a firewall which would have arrested the bug before it did quite as much damage.
  • first peoples — any of the indigenous peoples or Indian communities of Canada, especially one formally recognized by the Canadian government.
  • flag of truce — a white flag displayed as an invitation to the enemy to confer, or carried as a sign of peaceful intention by one sent to deal with the enemy.
  • flame-thrower — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
  • flameproofing — Present participle of flameproof.
  • flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
  • flatbed lorry — a lorry with a flat platform for its body
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