13-letter words containing o, f, l, i
- fractionalist — an advocate or supporter of fractionalism
- fractionalize — Divide (someone or something) into separate groups or parts.
- free-floating — (of an emotional state) lacking an apparent cause, focus, or object; generalized: free-floating hostility.
- french polish — French polish is a type of varnish which is painted onto wood so that the wood has a hard shiny surface.
- french-polish — to finish or treat (a piece of furniture) with French polish.
- friction pile — a pile depending on the friction of surrounding earth for support.
- fringilliform — resembling a finch
- frise aileron — an aircraft wing control surface designed with its leading edge extending forward of its axis of rotation so that when the aileron's trailing edge is raised the leading edge extends below the bottom surface of the wing.
- frivolousness — characterized by lack of seriousness or sense: frivolous conduct.
- front-loading — Also, front-loaded. front-loading (def 1).
- fuel air bomb — a type of bomb that spreads a cloud of gas, which is then detonated, over the target area, causing extensive destruction
- fuel injector — injector (def 2b).
- funambulation — the act of walking on a tightrope; funambulism
- functionalise — to make functional.
- functionalism — (usually initial capital letter) Chiefly Architecture, Furniture. a design movement evolved from several previous movements or schools in Europe in the early 20th century, advocating the design of buildings, furnishings, etc., as direct fulfillments of material requirements, as for shelter, repose, or the serving of food, with the construction, materials, and purpose clearly expressed or at least not denied, and with aesthetic effect derived chiefly from proportions and finish, purely decorative effects being excluded or greatly subordinated. the doctrines and practices associated with this movement. Compare rationalism (def 4).
- functionalist — a person who advocates, or works according to, the principles of functionalism.
- functionality — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- functionalize — to make functional.
- futurological — Pertaining to futurology.
- game of skill — a game in which the outcome is determined by skill rather than by chance, as chess.
- garrison life — the life of troops who maintain and guard a military base or fortified place
- geminiflorous — having flowers arranged in pairs.
- gemmuliferous — producing or reproducing by gemmules.
- genuflections — Plural form of genuflection.
- globuliferous — containing or producing globules.
- glorification — a glorified or more splendid form of something.
- go fly a kite — to move through the air using wings.
- goldfish bowl — round glass container for goldfish
- goldie's fern — a wood fern, Dryopteris goldiana, of northeastern North America, having large, golden-green, leathery fronds with blades that tilt backward.
- golfe du lion — French name of the Gulf of Lions.
- grain of salt — salt crystal
- granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
- gulf of lions — a wide bay of the Mediterranean off the S coast of France, between the Spanish border and Toulon
- gulf of sidra — a wide inlet of the Mediterranean on the N coast of Libya
- hair follicle — a small cavity in the epidermis and corium of the skin, from which a hair develops.
- half coupling — a flange fixed at the end of each of the two shafts that are connected in a flange coupling
- half mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
- half-mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
- half-scottish — Also, Scots. of or relating to Scotland, its people, or their language.
- help off with — If you help someone off with an item of clothing, you help them take it off.
- hill of beans — something of trifling value; virtually nothing at all: The problem didn't amount to a hill of beans.
- honorifically — In a honorific manner.
- hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
- hydrosulfuric — (chemistry) Derived from hydrogen sulfide considered as hydrosulfuric acid.
- ichneumon fly — any of numerous wasplike insects of the family Ichneumonidae, the larvae of which are parasitic on caterpillars and immature stages of other insects.
- ichthyofaunal — relating to ichthyofauna
- if you please — expressing mild outrage
- 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-capable of — not capable.
- inconformable — Obsolete form of unconformable.