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11-letter words containing m, i, l, f

  • myriad-leaf — an aquatic plant, Myriophyllum verticillatum, of the North Temperate Zone, having hairlike, submerged leaves.
  • naupliiform — shaped like a nauplius larva
  • new milford — a town in W Connecticut.
  • nonfamilial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a family: familial ties.
  • of all time — If you say that someone or something is, for example, the best writer of all time, or the most successful film of all time, you mean that they are the best or most successful that there has ever been.
  • officialdom — the class or entire body of officials; officials as a whole.
  • officialism — excessive attention to official regulations and routines.
  • old flemish — the Flemish language before c1300.
  • palm family — the plant family Palmae (or Arecaceae; formerly, Palmaceae), characterized by chiefly tropical evergreen trees or shrubs having large compound leaves in featherlike or fanlike fronds, large clusters of small flowers, and fleshy or dry fruit, and including the palmettos, ornamental palms, and palms that are the source of carnauba wax, coconuts, dates, raffia, rattan, sago, and various oils.
  • papilliform — resembling a papilla.
  • patelliform — having the form of a patella; shaped like a saucer, kneecap, or limpet shell.
  • penciliform — having a pencillike shape.
  • pine family — the plant family Pinaceae, characterized by mostly evergreen, resinous trees having narrow, often needlelike leaves, male flowers in catkinlike clusters, and scaly female flowers that develop into fruit in the form of a woody cone, and including cedar (genus Cedrus), fir, hemlock, larch, pine, and spruce.
  • pink family — the plant family Caryophyllaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having opposite leaves, usually swollen-jointed stems, flowers with petals notched at the tips, and fruit generally in the form of a many-seeded capsule, and including baby's-breath, carnation, chickweed, pink, and sweet william.
  • planuliform — resembling a planula
  • platforming — a process for reforming petroleum using a platinum catalyst
  • prime field — a field that contains no proper subset that is itself a field.
  • raffia palm — any of various palms of the genus Raphia, as R. farinifera of tropical Africa, having pinnate leaves that yield a strong, flexible fiber.
  • readme file — (convention, documentation)   A text file traditionally included in the top-level directory of a software distribution, containing pointers to documentation, credits, revision history, notes, etc. Originally found in Unix source distributions, the convention has spread to many other products. The file may be named README, READ.ME, ReadMe or readme.txt or some other variant. In the Macintosh and IBM PC worlds, software is not usually distributed in source form, and the README is more likely to contain user-oriented material like last-minute documentation changes, error workarounds, and restrictions. The README convention probably follows the famous scene in Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" in which Alice confronts magic munchies labeled "Eat Me" and "Drink Me".
  • reform bill — any of the bills passed by Parliament (1832, 1867, 1884) providing for an increase in the number of voters in elections for the House of Commons, especially the bill of 1832 by which many rotten boroughs were disfranchised.
  • reptiliform — having the form or appearance of a reptile
  • rose family — the plant family Rosaceae, characterized by trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants having compound or simple leaves with stipules, flowers typically with five sepals and five petals, and fruit in a variety of forms, many of which are fleshy and edible, and including the almond, apple, apricot, blackberry, cherry, cinquefoil, hawthorn, peach, pear, plum, raspberry, rose, spirea, and strawberry.
  • rush family — the plant family Juncaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having narrow, grasslike leaves, small and greenish flowers, and capsular fruit with three compartments, comprising the true rushes.
  • sacculiform — (of plant parts, etc) shaped like a small sac
  • safety film — Photography. a film having a nonflammable base of triacetate cellulose.
  • scalariform — ladderlike.
  • scalpriform — chisel-shaped, as the incisors of certain rodents.
  • self-mailer — an advertisement, booklet, or the like, that has space for a name, address, and postage and can be mailed without a wrapper or envelope.
  • self-making — the act of a person or thing that makes: The making of a violin requires great skill.
  • self-minded — having a certain kind of mind (usually used in combination): strong-minded.
  • self-moving — capable of moving without an external agency.
  • semifluidic — of the nature of a semifluid; partially fluidic
  • smiley face — a digital icon, a sequence of keyboard symbols, or a handwritten or printed equivalent, that serves to represent a facial expression, as :‐) for a smiling face or ;‐) for a winking face. Compare emoticon.
  • spiraliform — having or resembling spiral lines
  • still frame — continuous display of a single frame of a film or of a single picture from a television signal
  • stipuliform — shaped like a stipule.
  • sulfonamide — sulfa drug.
  • superfamily — a category of related families within an order or suborder.
  • the flemish — the Flemings collectively
  • timber wolf — the gray wolf, Canis lupus, sometimes designated as the subspecies C. lupus occidentalis: formerly common in northern North America but now greatly reduced in number and rare in the conterminous U.S.
  • time-filler — an activity that occupies time which would otherwise be wasted
  • travel film — a filmed documentary showing travel in a certain country or region
  • unamplified — not amplified, magnified, or enlarged
  • unmollified — Not mollified.
  • vasculiform — shaped like a small vase or flowerpot
  • zeolitiform — in the shape of a zeolite
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