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11-letter words containing n, a, f, l

  • nonfatality — An incident that is not a fatality.
  • nonfloating — Not floating (in any sense).
  • nonofficial — a person appointed or elected to an office or charged with certain duties.
  • normal form — 1.   (reduction)   In reduction systems, the state of a term which contains no reducible expressions. Variants include head normal form, weak head normal form. 2.   (database)   See database normalisation.
  • nullifiable — Able, or allowed to be nullified.
  • nullifidian — a person who has no faith or religion; skeptic.
  • off balance — If you are off balance, you are in an unsteady position and about to fall.
  • offhandedly — cavalierly, curtly, or brusquely: to reply offhand.
  • old frisian — the Frisian language before c1500. Abbreviation: OFris.
  • on the flat — On the flat means on level ground.
  • outflanking — Present participle of outflank.
  • overinflate — to inflate to an excessive degree
  • pain relief — techniques concerned with preventing or reducing pain
  • panel thief — a thief who secretly robs the customers in a panel house.
  • 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.
  • plain flour — ground wheat with no raising agent
  • plank floor — a floor made from sawed, straight-grained timber.
  • planuliform — resembling a planula
  • platforming — a process for reforming petroleum using a platinum catalyst
  • playfulness — full of play or fun; sportive; frolicsome.
  • polar front — Meteorology. the variable frontal zone of middle latitudes separating air masses of polar and tropical origin.
  • pontificals — of, relating to, or characteristic of a pontiff; papal.
  • prank flash — a short film or animation linked surreptitiously to an innocuous website, intended to shock unsuspecting and easily-offended users of the internet
  • prone float — a prone floating position, used especially by beginning swimmers, with face downward, legs extended backward, and arms stretched forward.
  • racing flag — a distinguishing flag flown by a yacht during the period of its participation in a race.
  • referential — having reference: referential to something.
  • reflectance — the ratio of the intensity of reflected radiation to that of the radiation incident on a surface.
  • refrangible — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
  • reinflation — Economics. a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency (opposed to deflation).
  • return half — the return part of a two-way ticket
  • riefenstahl — Leni [ley-nee] /ˈleɪ ni/ (Show IPA), 1902–2003, German film director.
  • rifle range — a firing range for practice with rifles.
  • saint felix — Saint, died a.d. 530, pope 526–530.
  • salmon farm — an enclosed area of water devoted to the rearing of salmon for food
  • satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • scaffolding — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
  • second-half — happening in the second half of a game
  • self-acting — acting by itself; automatic.
  • self-denial — the sacrifice of one's own desires; unselfishness.
  • self-hating — harbouring feelings of self-hatred
  • self-making — the act of a person or thing that makes: The making of a violin requires great skill.
  • shelf angle — an angle iron attached to or suspended from a girder to carry masonry or the ends of a number of joists.
  • signal flag — a flag used for sending messages to other ships
  • slacken off — If something slackens off, it becomes slower, less active, or less intense.
  • slant front — a flap of a desk, sloping upward and inward to close the desk, and opening forward and downward to a horizontal position as a writing surface: a form of fall front.
  • snail fever — schistosomiasis.
  • snailflower — a tropical vine, Vigna caracalla, of the legume family, having fragrant, yellowish or purplish flowers, a segment of which is shaped like a snail's shell.
  • social fund — (in Britain) a social security fund from which loans or payments may be made to people in cases of extreme need
  • soft launch — the launch of a website in stages, with regular updating
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