12-letter words containing n, i, f, t
- infraduction — (medicine) The turning downward of a part, especially of the eye.
- infraorbital — (anatomy) Below the orbit (of the eye).
- infrequently — happening or occurring at long intervals or rarely: infrequent visits.
- infringement — a breach or infraction, as of a law, right, or obligation; violation; transgression.
- infusibility — Incapability or difficulty of being fused, melted, or dissolved.
- ink fountain — the part of a printing press that stores ink and feeds it to the rollers.
- insightfully — characterized by or displaying insight; perceptive.
- insufficient — not sufficient; lacking in what is necessary or required: an insufficient answer.
- insufflation — to blow or breathe (something) in.
- 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
- jeffersonite — (mineralogy) A variety of pyroxene of olive-green color passing into brown. It contains zinc.
- joint family — a type of extended family composed of parents, their children, and the children's spouses and offspring in one household.
- junction fet — Junction Field Effect Transistor
- justifyingly — to show (an act, claim, statement, etc.) to be just or right: The end does not always justify the means.
- kentish fire — prolonged clapping by an audience, especially in unison, indicating impatience or disapproval.
- 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.
- knock it off — stop it
- 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.
- 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.
- latifundista — the owner of a latifundio in Latin America or Spain.
- 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.
- 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 partner — one member of a monogamous relationship.
- life tenancy — holding a tenancy until the holder dies
- lifting body — an aircraft or spacecraft configuration in which there are no wings, and lift is obtained by aerodynamic forces on its body.
- lifting sail — a sail that when filled tends to raise the hull of a ship or boat (opposed to driving sail).
- line of site — a straight line from the muzzle of an artillery gun to its target.
- liquefacient — something that liquefies or promotes liquefaction.
- liquefaction — the act or process of liquefying or making liquid.
- lofting iron — a club whose head has a sloped face, for lofting the ball.
- loosefitting — fitting loosely
- lovecraftian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American fantasy and horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft (1870–1937)