13-letter words containing l, e, n, f
- centerfielder — (baseball) A player in the centerfield position.
- central falls — a city in NE Rhode Island.
- centrifugally — Away from a centre or axis.
- changefulness — Propensity to change.
- channel ferry — a ship that shuttles across the English Channel between the UK and the continent
- child benefit — In Britain, child benefit is an amount of money paid weekly by the state to families for each of their children.
- circumflexing — Present participle of circumflex.
- circumflexion — The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form.
- civil defence — Civil defence is the organization and training of the ordinary people in a country so that they can help the armed forces, medical services, or police force, for example if the country is attacked by an enemy.
- civil defense — Civil defense is the organization and training of the ordinary people in a country so that they can help the armed forces, medical services, or police force, for example if the country is attacked by an enemy.
- climbing fern — any of several chiefly tropical, vinelike ferns of the genus Lygodium, having climbing or trailing stems.
- close-fitting — Close-fitting clothes fit tightly and show the shape of your body.
- cloven-footed — having split hoofs, once assumed to represent the halves of a single undivided hoof, as in cattle.
- cloven-hoofed — having split hoofs, once assumed to represent the halves of a single undivided hoof, as in cattle.
- cobol fingers — (jargon) /koh'bol fing'grz/ Reported from Sweden, a hypothetical disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see candygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
- colorfastness — The characteristic of being colorfast.
- compound leaf — a leaf consisting of two or more leaflets borne on the same leafstalk
- confessionals — Plural form of confessional.
- confiscatable — confiscable
- conflagrative — That produces conflagration.
- control freak — If you say that someone is a control freak, you mean that they want to be in control of every situation they find themselves in.
- conway's life — Conway's Game of Life
- coreferential — (of more than one linguistic expression) designating the same individual or class
- cornfield ant — a small, brown ant, Lasius alienus, that lives in cornfields and feeds on honeydew of the corn-root aphid.
- counterfeitly — in a counterfeit manner
- craftsmanlike — Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman.
- cross oneself — to outline the form of a cross as a Christian religious act by moving the hand from the forehead to the breast and then from one shoulder to the other
- cyclone fence — a heavy-duty, chain-link fence, usually high and often topped with barbed wire
- cycloolefinic — of or like a cycloolefin
- dean of guild — the titular head of the guild or merchant company in a Scots burgh, who formerly exercised jurisdiction over all building in the burgh in the Dean of Guild Court
- deceitfulness — given to deceiving: A deceitful person cannot keep friends for long.
- declassifying — Present participle of declassify.
- deconflicting — Present participle of deconflict.
- deconfliction — The act or process of deconflicting.
- defendability — (uncountable) The condition of being defendable.
- defenselessly — In a defenseless manner.
- defensibility — capable of being defended against assault or injury: The troops were bivouacked in a defensible position.
- deferentially — showing deference; deferent; respectful.
- defloration's — the act of deflowering.
- deformational — of or relating to deformation
- delirifacient — anything that causes or induces delirium
- desulfuration — to desulfurize.
- differentials — Plural form of differential.
- difficultness — The state or quality of being difficult.
- discontentful — exhibiting a lack of contentment
- diving reflex — a reflex of humans, other mammals, reptiles, and birds, triggered by immersion in cold water, that slows the heart rate and diverts blood flow to the brain, heart, and lungs: serves to conserve oxygen until breathing resumes and to delay potential brain damage.
- dumbfoundedly — In a dumbfounded manner.
- east flanders — a province in W Belgium. 1150 sq. mi. (2980 sq. km). Capital: Ghent.
- eff and blind — to use obscene language
- effectualness — The state or condition of being effectual.