13-letter words containing o, l, e, f, i
- fossil energy — heat energy released by burning fossil fuel
- fossiliferous — bearing or containing fossils, as rocks or strata.
- foul-smelling — having a very unpleasant smell
- four-wheeling — traveling in a vehicle using four-wheel drive.
- fowling piece — a shotgun for shooting wildfowl.
- foxtail wedge — a wedge in the split end of a tenon, bolt, or the like, for spreading and securing it when driven into a blind mortise or hole.
- fractionalise — Alt form fractionalize.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- functionalise — to make functional.
- functionalize — to make functional.
- 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.
- go fly a kite — to move through the air using wings.
- 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.
- granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
- hair follicle — a small cavity in the epidermis and corium of the skin, from which a hair develops.
- 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.
- hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- informal vote — an invalid vote or ballot
- informalities — Plural form of informality.
- informatively — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- informercials — Plural form of informercial.
- inoffensively — In an inoffensive manner.
- intolerant of — not able or willing to tolerate
- isle of capri — Capri.
- isle of pines — Isle of, former name of Youth, Isle of.
- isle of wight — Isle of, an island off the S coast of England, forming an administrative division of Hampshire. 147 sq. mi. (381 sq. km). County seat: Newport.