13-letter words containing s, r, f, l
- life interest — interest on property that is payable during the owner's lifetime but cannot be passed on to another or others after his or her death.
- lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).
- longsuffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
- loose forward — one of a number of forwards who play at the back or sides of the scrum and who are not bound wholly into it
- lord of hosts — Jehovah; God.
- lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
- lump of sugar — lump1 (def 4).
- malformations — Plural form of malformation.
- mammaliferous — containing the remains of mammals
- marsh trefoil — buck bean.
- masterfulness — The quality of being masterful.
- materfamilias — the mother of a family.
- metalliferous — containing or yielding metal.
- microfelsitic — (of a rock) showing evidence of crystallization having begun, but not yet having formed any crystals
- 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.
- mistrustfully — In a mistrustful manner.
- moll flanders — (The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders) a novel (1722) by Daniel Defoe.
- myelofibrosis — the replacement of bone marrow by fibrous tissue, characteristic of leukemia and certain other diseases.
- myofibroblast — (cytology) A cell that is intermediate between a fibroblast and smooth muscle.
- nerve oneself — to collect one's energies or courage for an effort
- new braunfels — a city in S Texas, near San Antonio.
- niagara falls — the falls of the Niagara River: in Canada, the Horseshoe Falls, 158 feet (48 meters) high; 2600 feet (792 meters) wide; in the U.S., American Falls, 167 feet (51 meters) high; 1000 feet (305 meters) wide.
- nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
- noncolourfast — (of a fabric) having a colour that tends to fade when washed or worn
- odoriferously — In an odoriferous manner.
- of all others — above all others
- 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.
- officeholders — Plural form of officeholder.
- olefin series — alkene series.
- olfactometers — Plural form of olfactometer.
- 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.
- paterfamilias — the male head of a household or family, usually the father.
- personal foul — a foul called in certain games, as basketball or football, for illegal body contact or rough, unsportsmanlike play.
- petroliferous — containing or yielding petroleum
- place of arms — an area in a fortress or a fortified town where troops could assemble for defense.
- platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
- platiniferous — platinum-bearing
- polliniferous — Botany. producing or bearing pollen.
- press of sail — as much sail as the wind or other conditions will permit a ship to carry.
- proliferously — by proliferation
- proposal form — a form filled out by a person applying for insurance
- quarterfinals — Plural form of quarterfinal.
- quasi-federal — pertaining to or of the nature of a union of states under a central government distinct from the individual governments of the separate states, as in federal government; federal system.
- recomfortless — having no comfort; comfortless
- reflexiveness — Grammar. (of a verb) taking a subject and object with identical referents, as shave in I shave myself. (of a pronoun) used as an object to refer to the subject of a verb, as myself in I shave myself.
- reform school — reformatory (def 2).
- regardless of — in spite of
- relief troops — soldiers sent to an area of conflict or a disaster area in order to provide aid or assistance there
- reptiliferous — (of rocks, etc) yielding fossilized reptiles