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13-letter words containing o, i, l, f, r

  • microfilarial — relating to, or emanating from, microfilariae
  • microfilmable — Suitable for storage on microfilm.
  • microfloppies — 3.5-inch floppies, as opposed to 5.25-inch vanilla or mini-floppies and the now-obsolete 8-inch variety. This term may be headed for obsolescence as 5.25-inchers pass out of use, only to be revived if anybody floats a sub-3-inch floppy standard. See stiffy, minifloppies.
  • milford haven — a bay in SW Wales.
  • mole fraction — the ratio of the number of moles of a given component of a mixture to the total number of moles of all the components.
  • multifactoral — Involving multiple factors.
  • multiplatform — Compatible with or involving more than one type of computer or operating system.
  • myelofibrosis — the replacement of bone marrow by fibrous tissue, characteristic of leukemia and certain other diseases.
  • myelofibrotic — of, relating to or affected by myelofibrosis
  • myofibroblast — (cytology) A cell that is intermediate between a fibroblast and smooth muscle.
  • naval officer — member of navy staff
  • neurofilament — (anatomy) A neurofibril.
  • never offline — (software)   (NOL) /noh-el/ A software service provided by America's Multimedia Online that allows Internet users to be constantly connected to the Internet.
  • nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
  • non-frangible — easily broken; breakable: Most frangible toys are not suitable for young children.
  • nonartificial — Not artificial.
  • nonfilterable — incapable of being filtered
  • nonprofitable — Not profitable; not making profit.
  • nonrefillable — Not refillable; unable to be refilled.
  • nonreflecting — Not reflecting.
  • nonreflective — Not reflective.
  • odoriferously — In an odoriferous manner.
  • off the rails — into or in a state of dysfunction or disorder
  • off-side rule — A lexical convention due to Landin, allowing the scope of declarations in a program to be expressed by indentation. Any non-whitespace token to the left of the first such token on the previous line is taken to be the start of a new declaration. Used in, for example, Miranda and Haskell.
  • office-holder — An office-holder is a person who has an important official position in an organization or government.
  • officeholders — Plural form of officeholder.
  • old favourite — If you refer to something as an old favourite, you mean that it has been in existence for a long time and everyone knows it or likes it.
  • olefin series — alkene series.
  • olfactometric — Of or pertaining to olfactometry.
  • oligofluorene — (organic chemistry) Any of a class of aromatic polycyclic hydrocarbons consisting of several fluorene units attached end-to-end.
  • on reflection — second thoughts
  • optical fiber — optical fibre
  • optical fibre — (communications)   (fibre optics, FO, US "fiber", light pipe) A plastic or glass (silicon dioxide) fibre no thicker than a human hair used to transmit information using infra-red or even visible light as the carrier (usually a laser). The light beam is an electromagnetic signal with a frequency in the range of 10^14 to 10^15 Hertz. Optical fibre is less susceptible to external noise than other transmission media, and is cheaper to make than copper wire, but it is much more difficult to connect. Optical fibres are difficult to tamper with (to monitor or inject data in the middle of a connection), making them appropriate for secure communications. The light beams do not escape from the medium because the material used provides total internal reflection. See also FDDI, Optical Carrier n, SONET.
  • orbitofrontal — Located in the frontal lobes above the orbits of the eyes.
  • orchid family — the plant family Orchidaceae, characterized by terrestrial or epiphytic herbaceous plants having simple, parallel-veined, usually alternate leaves, complex and often large and showy flowers pollinated primarily by insects, and fruit in the form of a capsule containing numerous minute seeds, and including calypso, fringed orchis, lady's-slipper, pogonia, rattlesnake plantain, vanilla, as well as numerous tropical orchids such as those of the genera Cattleya, Cymbidium, Dendrobium, Phalaenopsis, and Vanda.
  • ordered field — Mathematics. a field containing a subset of elements closed under addition and multiplication and having the property that every element in the field is either zero, in the subset, or has its additive inverse in the subset.
  • out of kilter — If one thing is out of kilter with another, the first thing does not agree with or fit in with the second.
  • overamplified — amplified too much, causing distortion or discomfort, etc
  • overfertilize — to apply too much fertilizer to
  • overflow pipe — a pipe which discharges excess or leaking water safely
  • overflowingly — to an excessive degree
  • overinflation — Economics. a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency (opposed to deflation).
  • overqualified — having more education, training, or experience than is required for a job or position.
  • passionflower — any chiefly American climbing vine or shrub of the genus Passiflora, having showy flowers and a pulpy berry or fruit that in some species is edible.
  • patrifocality — the system or fact of being patrifocal
  • pavilion roof — a pyramidal hip roof.
  • penicilliform — in the shape of a pencil or paintbrush
  • perfunctorily — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • perl profiler — (tool)   (pprof) A tool by Anthony Iano-Fletcher of Nottingham University, UK to profile, and collate data from, Perl scripts. Version: 1? Source posted on comp.lang.perl in mid-June 1993.
  • petroliferous — containing or yielding petroleum
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