13-letter words containing a, c, o, u
- force majeure — an unexpected and disruptive event that may operate to excuse a party from a contract.
- forced labour — labour done because of force; compulsory labour
- formulaically — made according to a formula; composed of formulas: a formulaic plot.
- formularistic — relating to formularization
- fort huachuca — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in SE Arizona, SE of Tucson.
- fort mcmurray — a town in NE Alberta, in W Canada, on the Athabasca River.
- fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
- fractocumulus — low ragged slightly bulbous cloud, often appearing below nimbostratus clouds during rain
- fractostratus — low ragged layered cloud often appearing below nimbostratus clouds during rain
- fracture zone — a long, narrow rift on the ocean floor, separating areas of differing depth: where such a zone crosses a mid-ocean ridge, it displaces the ridge by faulting.
- frumentaceous — of the nature of or resembling wheat or other grain.
- fugaciousness — (obsolete) fugacity.
- fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
- functionalise — to make functional.
- functionalism — (usually initial capital letter) Chiefly Architecture, Furniture. a design movement evolved from several previous movements or schools in Europe in the early 20th century, advocating the design of buildings, furnishings, etc., as direct fulfillments of material requirements, as for shelter, repose, or the serving of food, with the construction, materials, and purpose clearly expressed or at least not denied, and with aesthetic effect derived chiefly from proportions and finish, purely decorative effects being excluded or greatly subordinated. the doctrines and practices associated with this movement. Compare rationalism (def 4).
- functionalist — a person who advocates, or works according to, the principles of functionalism.
- functionality — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- functionalize — to make functional.
- functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
- furaciousness — the quality of being furacious or thievish
- futtock plate — a metal plate placed perpendicular to the top of a ship's lower mast to hold the futtock shrouds.
- futurological — Pertaining to futurology.
- galactagogues — Plural form of galactagogue.
- gastrocnemius — the largest muscle in the calf of the leg, the action of which extends the foot, raises the heel, and assists in bending the knee.
- general court — the state legislature of Massachusetts or New Hampshire.
- gentianaceous — belonging to the plant family Gentianaceae.
- gesticulation — the act of gesticulating.
- gesticulatory — Making a lot of gesticulations.
- glamour stock — a popular stock that rises quickly or continuously in price and attracts large numbers of investors.
- glaucous gull — a large white and pale-gray gull, Latus hyperboreus, of Arctic regions.
- gluconic acid — a colorless, water-soluble acid, C 6 H 12 O 7 , obtained by the oxidation of glucose, used commercially in a 50-percent solution for cleaning metals.
- glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
- good gracious — Some people say good gracious or goodness gracious in order to express surprise or annoyance.
- gram molecule — that quantity of a substance whose weight in grams is numerically equal to the molecular weight of the substance.
- graminicolous — (esp of parasitic fungi) living on grass
- graticulation — the division of a design, plan, etc into squares in order to improve the accuracy of enlargement or reduction
- great council — (in Norman England) an assembly composed of the king's tenants in chief that served as the principal council of the realm and replaced the witenagemot.
- ground attack — an attack using ground forces, as opposed to air or naval forces
- ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
- group captain — an officer holding commissioned rank senior to a wing commander but junior to an air commodore in the RAF and certain other air forces
- guzman blanco — Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1829–99, Venezuelan political leader: president 1870–88.
- habeas corpus — a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, especially for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
- hacker humour — A distinctive style of shared intellectual humour found among hackers, having the following marked characteristics: 1. Fascination with form-vs.-content jokes, paradoxes, and humour having to do with confusion of metalevels (see meta). One way to make a hacker laugh: hold a red index card in front of him/her with "GREEN" written on it, or vice-versa (note, however, that this is funny only the first time). 2. Elaborate deadpan parodies of large intellectual constructs, such as specifications (see write-only memory), standards documents, language descriptions (see INTERCAL), and even entire scientific theories (see quantum bogodynamics, computron). 3. Jokes that involve screwily precise reasoning from bizarre, ludicrous, or just grossly counter-intuitive premises. 4. Fascination with puns and wordplay. 5. A fondness for apparently mindless humour with subversive currents of intelligence in it - for example, old Warner Brothers and Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons, the Marx brothers, the early B-52s, and Monty Python's Flying Circus. Humour that combines this trait with elements of high camp and slapstick is especially favoured. 6. References to the symbol-object antinomies and associated ideas in Zen Buddhism and (less often) Taoism. See has the X nature, Discordianism, zen, ha ha only serious, AI koan. See also filk and retrocomputing. If you have an itchy feeling that all 6 of these traits are really aspects of one thing that is incredibly difficult to talk about exactly, you are (a) correct and (b) responding like a hacker. These traits are also recognizable (though in a less marked form) throughout science-fiction fandom.
- hacking cough — a harsh, dry and spasmodic cough
- hail columbia — hell (used as a euphemism): He caught Hail Columbia for coming home late.
- half coupling — a flange fixed at the end of each of the two shafts that are connected in a flange coupling
- hallucination — a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind, caused by various physical and mental disorders, or by reaction to certain toxic substances, and usually manifested as visual or auditory images.
- hallucinatory — pertaining to or characterized by hallucination: hallucinatory visions.
- hallucinogens — Plural form of hallucinogen.
- halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.