12-letter words containing l, a, f, o, e
- half-serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- hall of fame — a national shrine in New York City commemorating the names of outstanding Americans.
- hexaflexagon — A hexagonal flexagon.
- hexafluoride — a fluoride containing six atoms of fluorine.
- hydrosulfate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
- ill-favoured — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- imperforable — not able to be perforated
- in behalf of — in / on behalf of, as a representative of or a proxy for: On behalf of my colleagues, I address you tonight.
- incapable of — not allowing or admitting; not able to accept or experience
- inconfutable — (obsolete) Not confutable.
- inflammasome — (biochemistry) A multi-protein complex that is responsible for inflammatory rheumatic diseases via activation of caspases.
- inflectional — of, relating to, or used in inflection: an inflectional ending.
- infomercials — Plural form of infomercial.
- informercial — infomercial.
- informidable — (obsolete) Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded.
- interfemoral — situated between the thighs
- interfoliate — to interleave
- interfrontal — situated between the frontal bones
- iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
- irreformable — insusceptible to reforming influences; incorrigible.
- irreformably — in an irreformable manner
- jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
- jaws of life — powerful shears used for cutting a vehicle open after a collision
- labour force — The labour force consists of all the people who are able to work in a country or area, or all the people who work for a particular company.
- lamella roof — a vaulted roof composed of lamellae.
- 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.
- law of areas — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
- law of moses — the Pentateuch, containing the Mosaic dispensations, or system of rules and ordinances, and forming the first of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament.
- law of sines — a law stating that the ratio of a side of a plane triangle to the sine of the opposite angle is the same for all three sides.
- leaf through — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
- leaf tobacco — tobacco in leaf form
- leapfroggers — Plural form of leapfrogger.
- leapfrogging — Present participle of leapfrog.
- 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.
- leopard frog — a common North American green frog, Rana pipiens, having white-edged, dark oval spots on its back.
- 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.
- liquefaction — the act or process of liquefying or making liquid.
- loan officer — a bank employee who helps would-be borrowers get a loan
- 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
- loriciferans — Plural form of loriciferan.
- lovecraftian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American fantasy and horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft (1870–1937)
- lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
- malefactions — Plural form of malefaction.
- manifoldness — (mathematics) multiplicity.
- monofilament — Also, monofil [mon-uh-fil] /ˈmɒn əˌfɪl/ (Show IPA). a single, generally large filament of synthetic fiber. Compare multifilament (def 2).
- multifoliate — having many leaves or leaflets.
- myofilaments — Plural form of myofilament.
- neofeudalism — A theorized contemporary rebirth of policies of governance, economy and public life reminiscent of those present in many feudal societies.