11-letter words containing l, a, f, o, n
- lactoferrin — a glycoprotein present in milk, especially human milk, and supplying iron to suckling infants.
- lactoflavin — riboflavin.
- land of nod — the mythical land of sleep.
- land office — a government office for the transaction of business relating to public lands.
- land reform — any program, especially when undertaken by a national government, involving the redistribution of agricultural land among the landless.
- lifeboatman — a sailor qualified to take charge of a lifeboat or life raft.
- loan office — an office for making loans or receiving payments on loans.
- lone father — a father with no wife or partner, who is bringing up a child or children
- loriciferan — (zoology) Any of several marine animals of the phylum Loricifera.
- malefaction — an evil deed; crime; wrongdoing.
- malfunction — failure to function properly: a malfunction of the liver; the malfunction of a rocket.
- microfaunal — Of, or relating to, a microfauna.
- myofilament — a threadlike filament of actin or myosin that is a component of a myofibril.
- nannofossil — any fossil so small that it is near or below the limit of resolution of a light microscope.
- nanofossils — Plural form of nanofossil.
- nasofrontal — of or relating to the nasal and frontal bones
- naupliiform — shaped like a nauplius larva
- nefariously — extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous: a nefarious plot.
- new flavors — An object-oriented Lisp from Symbolics, the successor to Flavors, it led to CLOS.
- no-platform — to deny (a person) the opportunity to speak in a political debate or forum
- non-fragile — easily broken, shattered, or damaged; delicate; brittle; frail: a fragile ceramic container; a very fragile alliance.
- nonaffluent — not affluent or rich
- nonfamilial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a family: familial ties.
- nonfatality — An incident that is not a fatality.
- nonfloating — Not floating (in any sense).
- nonofficial — a person appointed or elected to an office or charged with certain duties.
- normal form — 1. (reduction) In reduction systems, the state of a term which contains no reducible expressions. Variants include head normal form, weak head normal form. 2. (database) See database normalisation.
- off balance — If you are off balance, you are in an unsteady position and about to fall.
- offhandedly — cavalierly, curtly, or brusquely: to reply offhand.
- old frisian — the Frisian language before c1500. Abbreviation: OFris.
- on the flat — On the flat means on level ground.
- outflanking — Present participle of outflank.
- overinflate — to inflate to an excessive degree
- plain flour — ground wheat with no raising agent
- plank floor — a floor made from sawed, straight-grained timber.
- planuliform — resembling a planula
- platforming — a process for reforming petroleum using a platinum catalyst
- polar front — Meteorology. the variable frontal zone of middle latitudes separating air masses of polar and tropical origin.
- pontificals — of, relating to, or characteristic of a pontiff; papal.
- prone float — a prone floating position, used especially by beginning swimmers, with face downward, legs extended backward, and arms stretched forward.
- reinflation — Economics. a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency (opposed to deflation).
- salmon farm — an enclosed area of water devoted to the rearing of salmon for food
- satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- scaffolding — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
- second-half — happening in the second half of a game
- slacken off — If something slackens off, it becomes slower, less active, or less intense.
- slant front — a flap of a desk, sloping upward and inward to close the desk, and opening forward and downward to a horizontal position as a writing surface: a form of fall front.
- snailflower — a tropical vine, Vigna caracalla, of the legume family, having fragrant, yellowish or purplish flowers, a segment of which is shaped like a snail's shell.
- social fund — (in Britain) a social security fund from which loans or payments may be made to people in cases of extreme need
- soft launch — the launch of a website in stages, with regular updating