13-letter words containing o, f, e, n

in advance of — prior to
in confidence — full trust; belief in the powers, trustworthiness, or reliability of a person or thing: We have every confidence in their ability to succeed.
in default of — If something happens in default of something else, it happens because that other thing does not happen or proves to be impossible.
in despite of — in spite of
in one's face — directly opposite or against one
in receipt of — If you are in receipt of something, you have received it or you receive it regularly.
in respect of — with regard, with reference
in the act of — while committing: crime, transgression
in the offing — the more distant part of the sea seen from the shore, beyond the anchoring ground.
in the pay of — If you say that someone is in the pay of a certain person or group, you disapprove of the fact that they are being paid by and are working for that person or group, often secretly or illegally.
in the way of — similar to, like
in-capable of — not capable.
inconformable — Obsolete form of unconformable.
inefficacious — not able to produce the desired effect; ineffective.
inertia force — an imaginary force supposed to act upon an accelerated body, equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to the resultant of the real forces
inferiorities — Plural form of inferiority.
inferolateral — (anatomy) Both inferior and lateral.
infiltrometer — a device used to measure the infiltration capacity of a soil.
infinite loop — (programming) (Or "endless loop") Where a piece of program is executed repeatedly with no hope of stopping. This is nearly always because of a bug, e.g. if the condition for exiting the loop is wrong, though it may be intentional if the program is controlling an embedded system which is supposed to run continuously until it is turned off. The programmer may also intend the program to run until interrupted by the user. An endless loop may also be used as a last-resort error handler when no other action is appropriate. This is used in some operating system kernels following a panic. A program executing an infinite loop is said to spin or buzz forever and goes catatonic. The program is "wound around the axle". A standard joke has been made about each generation's exemplar of the ultra-fast machine: "The Cray-3 is so fast it can execute an infinite loop in under 2 seconds!" See also black hole, recursion, infinite loop.
inflorescence — a flowering or blossoming.
infomediaries — Plural form of infomediary.
informal vote — an invalid vote or ballot
informalities — Plural form of informality.
informatively — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
informercials — Plural form of informercial.
infostructure — The technical infrastructure supporting an information system.
inoffensively — In an inoffensive manner.
interferogram — a photographic record of light interference patterns produced with an interferometer, used for recording shock waves and fluid flow patterns.
interfunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
intolerant of — not able or willing to tolerate
isle of pines — Isle of, former name of Youth, Isle of.
japanese wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus hodophylax, of Japan.
jefferson day — April 13, Thomas Jefferson's birthday, a legal holiday in Alabama, sometimes celebrated by the Democratic Party by the holding of fund-raising dinners.
jeffersontown — a town in N Kentucky.
jellification — The process or result of jellifying.
john fletcher — John, 1579–1625, English dramatist: collaborated with Francis Beaumont 1606?–16; with Philip Massinger 1613–25.
john wycliffe — John, c1320–84, English theologian, religious reformer, and Biblical translator.
landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
law of nature — an empirical truth of great generality, conceived of as a physical (but not a logical) necessity, and consequently licensing counterfactual conditionals
leap-frogging — a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
leg-of-mutton — having the triangular shape of a leg of mutton: leg-of-mutton sail; a dress with leg-of-mutton sleeves.
legal fiction — an acceptance of something as true, for the sake of convenience; legal pretence
legal offence — a crime that breaks a particular law and requires a particular punishment
lifted domain — (theory) In domain theory, a domain with a new bottom element added. Given a domain D, the lifted domain, lift D contains an element lift d corresponding to each element d in D with the same ordering as in D and a new element bottom which is less than every other element in lift D. In functional languages, a lifted domain can be used to model a constructed type, e.g. the type data LiftedInt = K Int contains the values K minint .. K maxint and K bottom, corresponding to the values in Int, and a new value bottom. This denotes the fact that when computing a value v = (K n) the computation of either n or v may fail to terminate yielding the values (K bottom) or bottom respectively. (In LaTeX, a lifted domain or element is indicated by a subscript \perp). See also tuple.
line of force — an imaginary line representing a field of force, such as an electric or magnetic field, such that the tangent at any point is the direction of the field vector at that point
line of sight — Also called line of sighting. an imaginary straight line running through the aligned sights of a firearm, surveying equipment, etc.
lines of code — (programming, unit) (LOC) A common measure of the size or progress of a programming project. For example, one can describe a completed project as consisting of 100,000 LOC; or one can characterise a week's progress as 5000 LOC. Using LOC as a metric of progress encourages programmers to reinvent the wheel or split their code into lots of short lines.
liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
longleaf pine — an American pine, Pinus palustris, valued as a source of turpentine and for its timber.
longsuffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.

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