13-letter words containing u, n, i, f
- inquire after — to seek information by questioning; ask: to inquire about a person.
- insufficience — Obsolete form of insufficiency.
- insufficiency — deficiency in amount, force, power, competence, or fitness; inadequacy: insufficiency of supplies.
- interfunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- justification — a reason, fact, circumstance, or explanation that justifies or defends: His insulting you was ample justification for you to leave the party.
- lingayen gulf — a gulf in the Philippines, on the NW coast of Luzon.
- lingua franca — any language that is widely used as a means of communication among speakers of other languages.
- liquefacients — Plural form of liquefacient.
- liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
- liquification — Alternative form of liquefaction.
- loft building — a building of several floors with large areas of unobstructed space, originally rented out for light industrial purposes and now frequently converted to residential occupancy.
- long fin tuna — a tunny, Thunnus alalunga, occurring mainly in warm regions of the Atlantic and Pacific. It has very long pectoral fins and is a valued food fish
- longsuffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
- loss function — (in decision theory) a function that expresses the loss incurred when a decision is made in terms of various factors.
- luminous flux — the rate of transmission of luminous energy: expressed in lumens.
- magnesiferous — (geology) Containing magnesium.
- magnetic flux — the total magnetic induction crossing a surface, equal to the integral of the component of magnetic induction perpendicular to the surface over the surface: usually measured in webers or maxwells.
- magnetiferous — (dated) Producing or conducting magnetism.
- malfunctional — Not functioning as intended.
- malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
- mandibuliform — Having the form of a mandible; - said especially of the maxill\u00e6 of an insect when hard and adapted for biting.
- manganiferous — containing manganese.
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- manufacturing — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- match-funding — the stipulation set by a grant-providing body that the recipients of a grant raise a certain percentage of the money they require, generally a sum more or less equal to that of the sum of money being granted
- memo function — (programming) (Or "memoised function") A function that remembers which arguments it has been called with and the result returned and, if called with the same arguments again, returns the result from its memory rather than recalculating it. Memo functions were invented by Professor Donald Michie of Edinburgh University. The idea was further developed by Robin Popplestone in his Pop2 language long before it was ever worked into LISP. This same principle is found at the hardware level in computer architectures which use a cache to store recently accessed memory locations. A Common Lisp package by Marty Hall <[email protected]> ftp://archive.cs.umbc.edu/pub/Memoization.
- metafunctions — Plural form of metafunction.
- misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
- mixing faucet — a single outlet for water from separately controlled hot-water and cold-water taps.
- motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- multifilament — having two or more filaments: multifilament yarn.
- multifunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- mummification — to make (a dead body) into a mummy, as by embalming and drying.
- mundification — the act of cleansing a wound
- mundificative — a cleansing medicine or preparation
- nectariferous — producing nectar.
- nefariousness — extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous: a nefarious plot.
- neo-confucian — of or relating to an eclectic philosophical movement of the 12th to the 16th centuries, incorporating Taoist and Buddhist elements with an adaptation of Confucianism.
- neurofibromas — Plural form of neurofibroma.
- neurofilament — (anatomy) A neurofibril.
- nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
- ninety-fourth — next after the ninety-third; being the ordinal number for 94.
- non-fiduciary — Law. a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.
- nonconiferous — Not coniferous.
- nondiffusible — not diffusible
- nonfigurative — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
- nonforfeiture — Lack of forfeiture; failure to forfeit, or exemption from forfeiting.
- nonfulfilment — the event or act of a promise, threat, request, hope, duty, etc not happening
- nonfunctional — Not having any particular purpose or function.
- noninfectious — (of a disease or disease-causing organism) not liable to be transmitted through the environment.