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13-letter words containing l, p, f

  • hyperflexible — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
  • hyperinflated — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
  • hyposulfurous — of or derived from hyposulfurous acid.
  • if you please — expressing mild outrage
  • impactfulness — The quality of being impactful.
  • imperfectible — that cannot be perfected.
  • in-capable of — not capable.
  • 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.
  • infrascapular — (anatomy) Beneath the scapula.
  • isle of capri — Capri.
  • isle of pines — Isle of, former name of Youth, Isle of.
  • japanese wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus hodophylax, of Japan.
  • lap of honour — If the winner of a race or game does a lap of honour, they run or drive slowly around a race track or sports field in order to receive the applause of the crowd.
  • 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.
  • life is cheap — You use life is cheap or life has become cheap to refer to a situation in which nobody cares that large numbers of people are dying.
  • longleaf pine — an American pine, Pinus palustris, valued as a source of turpentine and for its timber.
  • loop of henle — the part of a nephron between the proximal and distal convoluted tubules that extends, in a loop, from the cortex into the medulla of the kidney.
  • lump of sugar — lump1 (def 4).
  • microfloppies — 3.5-inch floppies, as opposed to 5.25-inch vanilla or mini-floppies and the now-obsolete 8-inch variety. This term may be headed for obsolescence as 5.25-inchers pass out of use, only to be revived if anybody floats a sub-3-inch floppy standard. See stiffy, minifloppies.
  • multiplatform — Compatible with or involving more than one type of computer or operating system.
  • nonprofitable — Not profitable; not making profit.
  • optical fiber — optical fibre
  • optical fibre — (communications)   (fibre optics, FO, US "fiber", light pipe) A plastic or glass (silicon dioxide) fibre no thicker than a human hair used to transmit information using infra-red or even visible light as the carrier (usually a laser). The light beam is an electromagnetic signal with a frequency in the range of 10^14 to 10^15 Hertz. Optical fibre is less susceptible to external noise than other transmission media, and is cheaper to make than copper wire, but it is much more difficult to connect. Optical fibres are difficult to tamper with (to monitor or inject data in the middle of a connection), making them appropriate for secure communications. The light beams do not escape from the medium because the material used provides total internal reflection. See also FDDI, Optical Carrier n, SONET.
  • optical flint — an optical glass of high dispersion and high refractive index containing lead oxide. They are used in the manufacture of lenses, artificial gems, and cut glass
  • overamplified — amplified too much, causing distortion or discomfort, etc
  • overflow pipe — a pipe which discharges excess or leaking water safely
  • 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.
  • pact of steel — a military alliance concluded between Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy on May 22, 1939, committing each to assist the other in the event of war with another power and pledging that neither would seek a separate peace or armistice.
  • palette knife — a thin blade of varying flexibility set in a handle and used for mixing colors or applying them to a canvas.
  • palm off with — If you say that you are palmed off with a lie or an excuse, you are annoyed because you are told something in order to stop you asking any more questions.
  • palmification — the fertilization of date palms artificially
  • paraffin lamp — a lamp which is fuelled by paraffin
  • parainfluenza — an influenzalike respiratory infection of animals and humans, caused by any of several paramyxoviruses.
  • parquet floor — flooring made of inlaid wood
  • passionflower — any chiefly American climbing vine or shrub of the genus Passiflora, having showy flowers and a pulpy berry or fruit that in some species is edible.
  • paterfamilias — the male head of a household or family, usually the father.
  • patrifocality — the system or fact of being patrifocal
  • pavilion roof — a pyramidal hip roof.
  • penicilliform — in the shape of a pencil or paintbrush
  • pepper family — the plant family Piperaceae, characterized by tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having simple leaves, dense spikes of very small flowers, and fleshy, berrylike fruit, and including peperomia and peppers of the genus Piper.
  • perfunctorily — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • perl profiler — (tool)   (pprof) A tool by Anthony Iano-Fletcher of Nottingham University, UK to profile, and collate data from, Perl scripts. Version: 1? Source posted on comp.lang.perl in mid-June 1993.
  • personal foul — a foul called in certain games, as basketball or football, for illegal body contact or rough, unsportsmanlike play.
  • petroliferous — containing or yielding petroleum
  • 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.
  • place of arms — an area in a fortress or a fortified town where troops could assemble for defense.
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