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15-letter words containing o, f, a, l, i

  • half-round file — a file having a semicircular cross-section
  • heralds' office — the official heraldic authority of Scotland.
  • heredo-familial — denoting a condition or disease that may be passed from generation to generation and to several members of one family
  • holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
  • holiday feeling — the positive feeling people experience while on holiday and during holiday periods such as the Christmas period
  • holiday traffic — increased road traffic during holiday periods and public holidays
  • hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • in nothing flat — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
  • inefficaciously — Without efficacy or effect.
  • inertial fusion — a type of nuclear fusion in which the inertia of matter enables it to fuse by impact, as by pulses of laser radiation or high-energy charged particles, rather than by high temperature
  • infantilization — The act or process of infantilizing, or treating a non-infant as an infant.
  • infants' school — kindergarten.
  • inferior planet — either of the two planets whose orbits are inside the orbit of the earth: Venus and Mercury.
  • inflation rider — An inflation rider is a rider that can be added to a long-term care insurance plan that adjusts the benefits over time to allow for inflation.
  • inflation-proof — not affected by inflation
  • informationally — In an informational manner.
  • intake manifold — a collection of tubes through which the fuel-air mixture flows from the carburetor or fuel injector to the intake valves of the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine.
  • interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
  • irreformability — the state or condition of being irreformable
  • irvine dataflow — (language)   (Always called "Id") A non-strict, single assignment language and incremental compiler developed by Arvind and Gostelow and used on MIT's Tagged-Token Dataflow Architecture and planned to be used on Motorola's Monsoon. See also Id Nouveau.
  • island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
  • ja well no fine — used to indicate reluctant acceptance
  • kirchhoff's law — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
  • lake miraflores — an artificial lake in Panama, in the S Canal Zone of the Panama Canal
  • land of promise — Promised Land.
  • latensification — (in photography) the process of intensifying a latent image by the use of chemicals, extra exposure to light, or other means
  • latent function — any function of an institution or other social phenomenon that is unintentional and often unrecognized.
  • latino-faliscan — a group of early Italic languages, including Latin and Faliscan.
  • law of identity — the law that any proposition implies itself.
  • lay a finger on — to harm
  • leadwort family — the plant family Plumbaginaceae, characterized by shrubs and herbaceous plants of seacoasts and semiarid regions, having basal or alternate leaves, spikelike clusters of tubular flowers, and dry, one-seeded fruit, and including leadwort, sea lavender, statice, and thrift.
  • leaf primordium — a group of cells that will develop into a leaf, seen as small bulges just below the shoot apex.
  • liaison officer — a person who liaises between groups or units
  • lichenification — a leathery hardening of the skin, usually caused by chronic irritation.
  • lie of the land — the topography of the land
  • lift-drag ratio — the ratio of the lift to the drag of an airfoil.
  • limiting factor — Physiology. the slowest, therefore rate-limiting, step in a process or reaction involving several steps.
  • line of apsides — a line joining the lower and higher apsides, forming the major axis of the orbit
  • linear function — linear transformation.
  • linear manifold — subspace (def 2b).
  • lofoten islands — group of Norwegian islands within the Arctic Circle, off the NW coast of Norway: c. 550 sq mi (1,424 sq km)
  • louis of nassau — 1538–74, a leader (1568–74) of the revolt of the Netherlands against Spain: died in battle
  • low pass filter — (electronics, graphics)   A filter that attenuates high frequency components of a signal. In image processing, a low pass filter might be used to remove noise from an image.
  • low-pass filter — a filter that transmits all frequencies below a specified value, substantially attenuating frequencies above this value
  • magnolia family — the plant family Magnoliaceae, characterized by evergreen or deciduous trees and shrubs having simple, alternate leaves, often showy flowers with a spiral arrangement of their floral parts, and conelike fruit, and including the cucumber tree, magnolia, tulip tree, and umbrella tree.
  • mahogany family — the plant family Meliaceae, characterized by tropical and subtropical trees and shrubs having alternate, pinnate leaves, usually branched clusters of flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or leathery capsule, and including the chinaberry, cedars of the genus Cedrela, and mahoganies of the genera Swietenia and Khaya.
  • maid of orléans — Saint ("the Maid of Orléans") 1412?–31, French national heroine and martyr who raised the siege of Orléans.
  • mail order firm — a company that sells goods by mail order
  • make capital of — to get advantage from
  • malconformation — Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; disproportion of parts.
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