14-letter words containing a, d, f, u
- forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
- foundation day — former name of Australia Day.
- foundationally — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
- foundationless — Without foundation; unfounded.
- four of a kind — a set of four cards of the same denominations.
- fraise du bois — a wild strawberry.
- fraudulentness — (rare) fraudulence.
- french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
- frequency band — band2 (def 9).
- frozen custard — a smooth-textured, soft, frozen-food product of whole milk, and sometimes cream, egg yolk, etc., sweetened and variously flavored, often served in an ice-cream cone.
- full-fashioned — knitted to conform to the shape of a body part, as of the foot or leg: full-fashioned hosiery.
- full-flavoured — Full-flavoured food or wine has a pleasant fairly strong taste.
- fully-featured — having a full range of features or functions
- functionalised — to make functional.
- functionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of functionalize.
- fundamentalism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts, especially within American Protestantism and Islam.
- fundamentalist — an adherent of fundamentalism, a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts: radical fundamentalists.
- fundamentality — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
- fundoplication — (surgery) An operation in which the gastric fundus (upper part) of the stomach is wrapped, or plicated, around the lower end of the esophagus and stitched in place, reinforcing the closing function of the lower esophageal sphincter. The esophageal hiatus is also narrowed down by sutures to prevent or treat concurrent hiatal hernia, in which the fundus slides up through the enlarged esophageal hiatus of the diaphragm.
- furfuraldehyde — a colorless, oily liquid, C 5 H 4 O 2 , having an aromatic odor, obtained from bran, sugar, wood, corncobs, or the like, by distillation: used chiefly in the manufacture of plastics and as a solvent in the refining of lubricating oils.
- futuna islands — a group of islands in the SW Pacific Ocean belonging to the Wallis and Futuna Islands.
- glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
- gouldian finch — a multicoloured finch, Chloebia gouldiae, of tropical N Australia
- guard of honor — a guard specially designated for welcoming or escorting distinguished guests or for accompanying a casket in a military funeral.
- gulf of anadyr — an inlet of the Bering Sea, off the coast of NE Russia
- guy fawkes day — (in Britain) November 5, celebrating the anniversary of the capture of Guy Fawkes.
- half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
- hiram woodruff — Hiram, 1817–67, Canadian driver, trainer, and breeder of harness-racing horses.
- house of cards — a structure or plan that is insubstantial and subject to imminent collapse, as a structure made by balancing playing cards against each other: The scheme is so overly complicated that it's likely to prove to be just another house of cards.
- huffman coding — (algorithm) A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
- humidification — to make humid.
- hydraulic lift — an elevator operated by fluid pressure, especially one used for raising automobiles in service stations and garages.
- indian buffalo — a member of the cattle tribe, Bubalus bubalis, of swampy regions of S Asia, having widely spreading back-curving horns. Domesticated forms are used as draught animals
- infundibulated — Funnel-shaped.
- juan fernandez — a group of three islands in the S Pacific, 400 miles (645 km) W of and belonging to Chile: Alexander Selkirk, the alleged prototype of Robinson Crusoe, was marooned here 1704.
- kidney failure — loss of renal function
- lady bountiful — a wealthy lady in George Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem, noted for her kindness and generosity.
- land of beulah — (in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress) the peaceful land in which the pilgrim awaits the call to the Celestial City.
- left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
- lost and found — a room in a public place for items left behind and from which the owners may retrieve them.
- maid of honour — A maid of honour is the chief bridesmaid at a wedding.
- mustard family — the plant family Cruciferae (or Brassicaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants having alternate leaves, acrid or pungent juice, clusters of four-petaled flowers, and fruit in the form of a two-parted capsule, and including broccoli, cabbage, candytuft, cauliflower, cress, mustard, radish, sweet alyssum, turnip, and wallflower.
- newfoundlander — a native or inhabitant of Newfoundland.
- non-fastidious — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- non-fraudulent — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
- of your dreams — If you describe someone or something as the person or thing of your dreams, you mean that you consider them to be ideal or perfect.
- overfastidious — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- penny dreadful — a cheap, sensational novel of adventure, crime, or violence; dime novel.
- penny-dreadful — a cheap, sensational novel of adventure, crime, or violence; dime novel.
- quadratic form — a polynomial all of whose terms are of degree 2 in two or more variables, as 5 x 2 − 2 xy + 3 y 2 .