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13-letter words containing al

  • family values — belief in traditional family unit
  • fanaticalness — Fanaticism.
  • fantastically — conceived or appearing as if conceived by an unrestrained imagination; odd and remarkable; bizarre; grotesque: fantastic rock formations; fantastic designs.
  • fascistically — In a fascistic way.
  • fatty alcohol — any of several long-chain alcohols from animals or plants, analogous to the fatty acids, used in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, detergents, plastics, etc.
  • faunistically — in a faunistic manner
  • federal court — a court of a federal government, especially one established under the Constitution of the United States.
  • female condom — a type of condom used by women and inserted into the vagina
  • female thread — a helical groove in a cylindrical hole formed by a tap or lathe tool
  • ferroaluminum — a ferroalloy containing up to 80 percent aluminum.
  • festival hall — a concert hall in London, on the South Bank of the Thames: constructed for the 1951 Festival of Britain; completed 1964–65
  • festivalgoers — Plural form of festivalgoer.
  • feudal system — the political, military, and social system in the Middle Ages, based on the holding of lands in fief or fee and on the resulting relations between lord and vassal.
  • feudalization — to make feudal; bring under the feudal system.
  • fictionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fictionalise.
  • fictionalized — to make into fiction; give a somewhat imaginative or fictional version of: to fictionalize a biography.
  • fictionalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fictionalize.
  • field marshal — an officer of the highest military rank in the British and certain other armies, and of the second highest rank in the French army.
  • film festival — a festival devoted to film
  • final curtain — end of a theatre performance
  • final edition — the last version of a particular issue of a daily newspaper
  • final whistle — sport: whistle indicating end of match
  • finback whale — rorqual
  • fingal's cave — a cave on the island of Staffa, in the Hebrides, Scotland. 227 feet (69 meters) long; 42 feet (13 meters) wide.
  • firewall code — 1. The code you put in a system (say, a telephone switch) to make sure that the users can't do any damage. Since users always want to be able to do everything but never want to suffer for any mistakes, the construction of a firewall is a question not only of defensive coding but also of interface presentation, so that users don't even get curious about those corners of a system where they can burn themselves. 2. Any sanity check inserted to catch a can't happen error. Wise programmers often change code to fix a bug twice: once to fix the bug, and once to insert a firewall which would have arrested the bug before it did quite as much damage.
  • first refusal — If someone has first refusal on something that is being sold or offered, they have the right to decide whether or not to buy it or take it before it is offered to anyone else.
  • fixed capital — capital goods, as machinery and tools, that are relatively durable and can be used repeatedly in the production of goods.
  • flag football — a form of touch football in which the ball-carrier's progress is stopped when an opponent pulls a flag from the ball-carrier's pocket or belt.
  • fleet admiral — the highest ranking naval officer, ranking next above admiral.
  • fleming valve — (formerly) a diode.
  • floral emblem — a flower or plant serving as the emblem of a city, state, nation, etc.
  • floricultural — Of or pertaining to floriculture.
  • floristically — In a floristic manner.
  • fluctuational — Of, pertaining to, or resulting from fluctuation(s).
  • focal seizure — an epileptic manifestation arising from a localized anomaly in the brain, as a small tumor or scar, and usually involving a single motor or sensory mechanism but occasionally spreading to other areas and causing convulsions and loss of consciousness.
  • football game — soccer match
  • for values of — (jargon)   A common rhetorical maneuver at MIT is to use any of the canonical random numbers as placeholders for variables. "The max function takes 42 arguments, for arbitrary values of 42". "There are 69 ways to leave your lover, for 69 = 50". This is especially likely when the speaker has uttered a random number and realises that it was not recognised as such, but even "non-random" numbers are occasionally used in this fashion. A related joke is that pi equals 3 - for small values of pi and large values of 3. This usage probably derives from the programming language MAD (Michigan Algorithm Decoder), an ALGOL-like language that was the most common choice among mainstream (non-hacker) users at MIT in the mid-1960s. It had a control structure FOR VALUES OF X = 3, 7, 99 DO ... that would repeat the indicated instructions for each value in the list (unlike the usual FOR that generates an arithmetic sequence of values). MAD is long extinct, but similar for-constructs still flourish (e.g. in Unix's shell languages).
  • foramen ovale — the small, oval opening in the wall that separates the atria of the heart in a normal fetus: it allows blood to bypass the nonfunctioning fetal lungs until the time of birth when it gradually closes up
  • foraminiferal — Of, pertaining to, or resembling the foraminifers; foraminiferous.
  • formal review — (project)   A technical review conducted with the customer including the types of reviews called for in DOD-STD-2167A (Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review, etc.)
  • formal system — an uninterpreted symbolic system whose syntax is precisely defined, and on which a relation of deducibility is defined in purely syntactic terms; a logistic system
  • formal theory — an uninterpreted symbolic system whose syntax is precisely defined, and on which a relation of deducibility is defined in purely syntactic terms; a logistic system
  • formalisation — Alternative spelling of formalization.
  • formalization — to make formal, especially for the sake of official or authorized acceptance: to formalize an understanding by drawing up a legal contract.
  • formula algol — An ALGOL extension for symbolic mathematics, strings and lists, developed by A.J. Perlis and R. Iturriaga at Carnegie for the CDC G-20 in 1962.
  • formulaically — made according to a formula; composed of formulas: a formulaic plot.
  • fouta djallon — a highland pastoral region in West Africa, in central Guinea, also in Sierra Leone and Liberia. 30,000 sq. mi. (77,700 sq. km).
  • fractionalise — Alt form fractionalize.
  • fractionalism — the state of being separate or inharmonious
  • fractionalist — an advocate or supporter of fractionalism
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