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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
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