12-letter words that end in l
- etymological — (not comparable) Of or relating to etymology.
- eulogistical — Alternative form of eulogistic.
- euroterminal — a railway terminus from which trans-European trains operate
- evening meal — dinner or supper
- excavational — Relating to excavation.
- expediential — Governed by expediency; seeking advantage.
- experiential — Involving or based on experience and observation.
- experimental — (of a new invention or product) based on untested ideas or techniques and not yet established or finalized.
- expositional — Explained in clear terms, as in writing.
- express mail — mail delivered quicker than normal mail
- expressional — Of or pertaining to expression, either in language, the face or the arts.
- extended tcl — (language) (TclX) Tcl extended by Mark Diekhans <[email protected]> and Karl Lehenbauer from 1989 on with statements to provide high-level access Unix system primitives. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- extracranial — on the exterior of the skull, outside the skull
- extralogical — Outside of the domain of logic.
- extramarital — (especially of sexual relations) occurring outside marriage.
- extramusical — outside the field or scope of music
- extratextual — Outside of a text.
- face flannel — washcloth
- faith school — a school that provides a general education within a framework of a specific religious belief
- false gavial — a SE Asian crocodile, Tomistoma schlegeli, similar to but smaller than the gavial
- family hotel — a hotel owned by a family in which family members work
- faneuil hall — a market house and public hall in Boston, Massachusetts, called “the Cradle of Liberty” because it was used as a meeting place by American patriots immediately before the Revolutionary War.
- fanning mill — a machine for winnowing grain by the action of riddles and sieves and an air blast.
- fauxmosexual — (slang) A heterosexual person who affects homosexual characteristics.
- ferris wheel — an amusement ride consisting of a large upright wheel rotating on a fixed stand and having seats around its rim suspended freely so that they remain right side up as they revolve.
- filler metal — metal supplied in the form of a welding rod, sometimes flux coated, melted by an arc or a flame into a joint between components to be joined
- finance bill — a bill or act of a legislature to obtain funds for the public treasury.
- fire control — technical and sometimes automatic supervision of artillery or naval gunfire on a target, as for range, elevation, etc.
- fire marshal — an official heading a bureau for the prevention or investigation of fires.
- first of all — to start with
- first school — A first school is a school for children aged between five and eight or nine.
- fissilingual — having a forked tongue
- fissirostral — having a broad, deeply cleft beak or bill, as the swallows and goatsuckers.
- fit the bill — If you say that someone or something fits the bill or fills the bill, you mean that they are suitable for a particular job or purpose.
- flight level — a specified height at which an aircraft is allowed to fly
- flow control — (communications, protocol) The collection of techniques used in serial communications to stop the sender sending data until the receiver can accept it. This may be either software flow control or hardware flow control. The receiver typically has a fixed size buffer into which received data is written as soon as it is received. When the amount of buffered data exceeds a "high water mark", the receiver will signal to the transmitter to stop transmitting until the process reading the data has read sufficient data from the buffer that it has reached its "low water mark", at which point the receiver signals to the transmitter to resume transmission.
- flowing well — A flowing well is a well which can produce oil or gas without the use of a mechanical pump.
- fluorouracil — a pyrimidine analog, C 4 H 3 FN 2 O 2 , used in the treatment of certain cancers.
- flutter mill — a flutter wheel, especially a small one designed as a child's plaything.
- foamed metal — a uniform foamlike metal structure produced when hydrogen bubbles are evolved from metal hydrides uniformly dispersed throughout a host metal or metal alloy: used as a structural material because of its shock-absorbing properties and light weight.
- foot-poundal — a foot-pound-second unit of work or energy equal to the work done by a force of one poundal when its point of application moves through a distance of one foot in the direction of the force. Abbreviation: ft-pdl.
- fore-topsail — a topsail set on a foremast on a ship.
- foreign bill — a bill of exchange drawn on a payer in one country by a maker in another.
- foresightful — care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
- forestaysail — a triangular sail set on a forestay; the innermost headsail of a vessel.
- former pupil — someone who used to attend a particular school or be a student of a particular teacher
- forward roll — a gymnastic movement in which the body is turned heels over head with the back of the neck resting on the ground
- foundational — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
- four-channel — Audio. quadraphonic.
- fox squirrel — any of several North American arboreal squirrels varying in color and of an exceptionally large size.