12-letter words containing n, i, f, e
- insufferable — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- insufferably — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- insufficient — not sufficient; lacking in what is necessary or required: an insufficient answer.
- intensifiers — Plural form of intensifier.
- intensifying — Present participle of intensify.
- inter-office — functioning or communicating between the offices of a company or organization; within a company: an interoffice memo.
- interdiffuse — (of two or more fluids) to diffuse mutually
- interfaculty — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
- interfemoral — situated between the thighs
- interference — an act, fact, or instance of interfering.
- interfertile — able to interbreed.
- interfilling — a filling of materials, as brickwork between studs.
- interfluence — the action of flowing together or merging
- interfoliate — to interleave
- interfretted — interlaced
- interfrontal — situated between the frontal bones
- interleafing — Present participle of interleaf.
- intertraffic — traffic between two or more places or people
- iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
- irreflection — lack of careful or long consideration
- javelin fish — a fish of the genus Pomadasys of semitropical Australian seas with a long spine on its anal fin
- jeffersonian — pertaining to or advocating the political principles and doctrines of Thomas Jefferson, especially those stressing minimum control by the central government, the inalienable rights of the individual, and the superiority of an agrarian economy and rural society.
- jeffersonite — (mineralogy) A variety of pyroxene of olive-green color passing into brown. It contains zinc.
- jeffrey pine — a conifer, Pinus jeffreyi, of high mountains in the western U.S., having long needles, large cones, and aromatic bark.
- junction fet — Junction Field Effect Transistor
- kentish fire — prolonged clapping by an audience, especially in unison, indicating impatience or disapproval.
- khyber knife — a long Indian knife having a triangular, single-edged blade with the handle set off center toward the back.
- kick oneself — regret sth
- kill oneself — to overexert oneself
- kitchen foil — aluminium foil used in cooking or storing food
- knife switch — a form of air switch in which a moving element, usually a hinged blade, is placed between two contact clips.
- krafft-ebing — Richard [rich-erd;; German rikh-ahrt] /ˈrɪtʃ ərd;; German ˈrɪx ɑrt/ (Show IPA), Baron von, 1840–1902, German neurologist and author of works on sexual pathology.
- kupfernickel — (archaic) cupronickel.
- lantern fish — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Myctophidae, having rows of luminous organs along each side, certain species of which migrate to the surface at night.
- law of sines — a law stating that the ratio of a side of a plane triangle to the sine of the opposite angle is the same for all three sides.
- leapfrogging — Present participle of leapfrog.
- left-brained — having the left brain dominant, therefore being more adept at logic, calculation, language, and other thought processes or skills usually associated with the left brain.
- leif ericson — Leif [leef;; Icelandic leyv] /lif;; Icelandic leɪv/ (Show IPA), flourished a.d. c1000, Norse mariner: according to Icelandic saga, discoverer of Vinland (son of Eric the Red).
- let floating — (programming) A program transformation used in functional programming to implement full laziness. E.g. the function f x = x + sqrt 4 can be expressed as f x = let t = sqrt 4 in x + t but note that t does not depend on the argument x so we can automatically transform this to t = sqrt 4 f x = x + t Making t into a global constant which need only be evaluated at most once, rather than every time f is called. The general idea is to float each subexpression as far out (toward the top level) as possible to maximise sharing.
- life annuity — any annuity that is contingent upon the survival of the annuitant or annuitants, especially an annuity that terminates with the death of a single annuitant.
- life drawing — drawing objects or people from life
- life goes on — You can say 'Life goes on' after mentioning something very sad to indicate that, although people are very upset or affected by it, they have to carry on living normally.
- life partner — one member of a monogamous relationship.
- life savings — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
- life science — any science that deals with living organisms, their life processes, and their interrelationships, as biology, medicine, or ecology.
- life tenancy — holding a tenancy until the holder dies
- lifelessness — The property of being lifeless, the lack of apparent animation.
- lifelikeness — Quality of being lifelike.
- line fishing — the activity and sport of fishing using a line
- line of fire — the straight horizontal line from the muzzle of a weapon in the direction of the axis of the bore, just prior to firing.