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15-letter words containing l, o, f, t

  • gulf of taranto — an inlet of the Ionian Sea, in Apulia in SE Italy
  • haemoflagellate — a flagellate protozoan, such as a trypanosome, that is parasitic in the blood
  • half wellington — a loose boot extending to just above the ankle and usually worn under the trousers.
  • half-understood — partially understood
  • help oneself to — to serve or provide oneself with (food, etc.)
  • heterofullerene — (chemistry) Any compound formally derived from a fullerene by replacing one or more carbon atom by a heteroatom.
  • holiday traffic — increased road traffic during holiday periods and public holidays
  • hopeful monster — a hypothetical individual organism that, by means of a fortuitous macromutation permitting an adaptive shift to a new mode of life, becomes the founder of a new type of organism and a vehicle of macroevolution.
  • hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • if nothing else — You can say 'if nothing else' to indicate that what you are mentioning is, in your opinion, the only good thing in a particular situation.
  • in line of duty — in the performance of authorized or prescribed military duty
  • in nothing flat — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
  • in the light of — in view of, given
  • inertial fusion — a type of nuclear fusion in which the inertia of matter enables it to fuse by impact, as by pulses of laser radiation or high-energy charged particles, rather than by high temperature
  • infantilization — The act or process of infantilizing, or treating a non-infant as an infant.
  • infants' school — kindergarten.
  • inferior planet — either of the two planets whose orbits are inside the orbit of the earth: Venus and Mercury.
  • inflation rider — An inflation rider is a rider that can be added to a long-term care insurance plan that adjusts the benefits over time to allow for inflation.
  • inflation-proof — not affected by inflation
  • informationally — In an informational manner.
  • intake manifold — a collection of tubes through which the fuel-air mixture flows from the carburetor or fuel injector to the intake valves of the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine.
  • interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
  • interreflection — The illumination of an object by reflected light from other objects that are not light sources.
  • irreformability — the state or condition of being irreformable
  • irvine dataflow — (language)   (Always called "Id") A non-strict, single assignment language and incremental compiler developed by Arvind and Gostelow and used on MIT's Tagged-Token Dataflow Architecture and planned to be used on Motorola's Monsoon. See also Id Nouveau.
  • java 2 platform — Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition
  • keep to oneself — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
  • latensification — (in photography) the process of intensifying a latent image by the use of chemicals, extra exposure to light, or other means
  • latent function — any function of an institution or other social phenomenon that is unintentional and often unrecognized.
  • latino-faliscan — a group of early Italic languages, including Latin and Faliscan.
  • law of identity — the law that any proposition implies itself.
  • law of the mean — the theorem that for a function continuous on a closed interval and differentiable on the corresponding open interval, there is a point in the interval such that the difference in functional values at the endpoints is equal to the derivative evaluated at the particular point and multiplied by the difference in the endpoints.
  • law-enforcement — of police, anti-crime
  • lay of the land — the general state or condition of affairs under consideration; the facts of a situation: We asked a few questions to get the lay of the land.
  • lay oneself out — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
  • leadwort family — the plant family Plumbaginaceae, characterized by shrubs and herbaceous plants of seacoasts and semiarid regions, having basal or alternate leaves, spikelike clusters of tubular flowers, and dry, one-seeded fruit, and including leadwort, sea lavender, statice, and thrift.
  • leaf-footed bug — any of numerous plant-sucking or predaceous bugs of the family Coreidae, typically having leaflike legs: several species are pests of food crops.
  • league football — rugby league football
  • leapfrog attack — Use of userid and password information obtained illicitly from one host (e.g. downloading a file of account IDs and passwords, tapping TELNET, etc.) to compromise another host. Also, the act of TELNETting through one or more hosts in order to confuse a trace (a standard cracker procedure).
  • left outer join — outer join
  • legacy software — legacy system
  • legion of merit — a decoration ranking below the Silver Star and above the Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded to U.S. and foreign military personnel for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the U.S.
  • let yourself go — If you let yourself go, you relax and behave much more freely than usual.
  • lichenification — a leathery hardening of the skin, usually caused by chronic irritation.
  • lie of the land — the topography of the land
  • lifestyle block — a semi-rural property comprising a house and land for small-scale farming
  • lift-drag ratio — the ratio of the lift to the drag of an airfoil.
  • limiting factor — Physiology. the slowest, therefore rate-limiting, step in a process or reaction involving several steps.
  • line of descent — someone's line of descent is all the people they are descended from
  • linear function — linear transformation.
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