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12-letter words containing t, e, f

  • kylie effect — the increased awareness of breast cancer caused by the publicity surrounding its diagnosis in Kylie Minogue, born 1968, Australian singer and actress
  • lantern fish — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Myctophidae, having rows of luminous organs along each side, certain species of which migrate to the surface at night.
  • large-format — of or relating to a camera with an image area of 5 inches by 4 inches or more
  • laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
  • leaf lettuce — a type of lettuce having loosely clustered, often curled leaves that are sometimes tinged with red.
  • leaf mustard — a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
  • leaf through — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
  • leaf tobacco — tobacco in leaf form
  • least of all — You can use least of all after a negative statement to emphasize that it applies especially to the person or thing mentioned.
  • left bracket — (character)   "[". ASCII character 91. Common: left square bracket; ITU-T: opening bracket; bracket. Rare: square; INTERCAL: U turn. Paired with right bracket ("]").
  • left fielder — the player whose position is left field.
  • left luggage — baggage stored temporarily
  • left-brained — having the left brain dominant, therefore being more adept at logic, calculation, language, and other thought processes or skills usually associated with the left brain.
  • left-justify — If printed text is left-justified, each line begins at the same distance from the left-hand edge of the page or column.
  • let floating — (programming)   A program transformation used in functional programming to implement full laziness. E.g. the function f x = x + sqrt 4 can be expressed as f x = let t = sqrt 4 in x + t but note that t does not depend on the argument x so we can automatically transform this to t = sqrt 4 f x = x + t Making t into a global constant which need only be evaluated at most once, rather than every time f is called. The general idea is to float each subexpression as far out (toward the top level) as possible to maximise sharing.
  • let fly (at) — to shoot or throw (at)
  • life annuity — any annuity that is contingent upon the survival of the annuitant or annuitants, especially an annuity that terminates with the death of a single annuitant.
  • life history — the series of living phenomena exhibited by an organism in the course of its development from inception to death.
  • life partner — one member of a monogamous relationship.
  • life support — equipment to sustain a patient's life
  • life tenancy — holding a tenancy until the holder dies
  • life-support — of or relating to equipment or measures that sustain or artificially substitute for essential body functions, as breathing or disposal of body wastes: Without life-support equipment, the patient might die.
  • lifestreamer — a person who provides an online record of his or her life, either by means of live video footage or via an online collection of social network updates, blogs, and photos
  • light-footed — stepping lightly or nimbly; light of foot; nimble.
  • lighter fuel — the fuel used in a cigarette or cigar lighter
  • line of site — a straight line from the muzzle of an artillery gun to its target.
  • liquefacient — something that liquefies or promotes liquefaction.
  • liquefaction — the act or process of liquefying or making liquid.
  • little falls — a township in NE New Jersey.
  • little foxes — a play (1939) by Lillian Hellman.
  • loathfulness — (rare) The condition of being loathful; reluctance.
  • looked-after — (of children) brought up by the state in institutions because their parents are dead or not able to care for them properly
  • loose-footed — (of a fore-and-aft sail) not having the foot bent to a boom.
  • loosefitting — fitting loosely
  • loosestrifes — Plural form of loosestrife.
  • lovecraftian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American fantasy and horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft (1870–1937)
  • malefactions — Plural form of malefaction.
  • malefactress — a woman who violates the law or does evil.
  • manifestness — The quality or state of being manifest or obvious.
  • manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • manufacturer — a person, group, or company that owns or runs a manufacturing plant.
  • manufactures — Plural form of manufacture.
  • mary of teck — Mary (def 4).
  • meet halfway — to compromise with
  • memory farts — (jargon, humour)   The flatulent sounds that some MS-DOS box BIOSes (most notably AMI's) make when checking memory at boot time.
  • mercy flight — an aircraft flight to bring a seriously ill or injured person to hospital from an isolated community
  • metafictions — Plural form of metafiction.
  • metafunction — (computing, programming) A function which calls all the other functions of a certain program; the only function that can be called independently.
  • midafternoon — the part of the afternoon centering approximately on three o'clock; the period approximately halfway between noon and sunset.
  • midwife toad — a European toad, Alytes obstetricans (family Discoglossidae), noted for its unusual breeding habits, in which mating occurs on land and the male broods the egg strings by wrapping them around his legs.
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