10-letter words containing a, f, l, u
- effleurage — a delicate stroking motion in massage.
- endosulfan — (chemistry) a toxic chlorinated polycyclic insecticide used to control mites.
- enfleurage — The extraction of essential oils and perfumes from flowers using odorless animal or vegetable fats.
- exsufflate — (obsolete) To exorcise or renounce by blowing.
- fabulation — to tell invented stories; create fables or stories filled with fantasy.
- fabulistic — Being or resembling a fable.
- fabulosity — (uncountable) Fabulousness; the quality of being fabulous; fictitiousness; mythical character.
- fabulously — almost impossible to believe; incredible.
- face value — the value printed on the face of a stock, bond, or other financial instrument or document.
- factiously — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
- factualism — emphasis on, devotion to, or extensive reliance upon facts: the factualism of scientific experiment.
- factuality — of or relating to facts; concerning facts: factual accuracy.
- faithfully — strict or thorough in the performance of duty: a faithful worker.
- falciparum — The parasitic protozoan Plasmodium falciparum that causes falciparum malaria.
- fall about — If you say that people are falling about, you mean that they are laughing a lot about something.
- fall under — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- fallacious — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
- falun gong — a Chinese system of meditation, martial-arts exercises, and spiritual teachings.
- fancifully — characterized by or showing fancy; capricious or whimsical in appearance: a fanciful design of butterflies and flowers.
- fascicular — pertaining to or forming a fascicle; fasciculate.
- fasciculus — a fascicle, as of nerve or muscle fibers.
- fault line — the intersection of a fault with the surface of the earth or other plane of reference.
- fault trap — A fault trap is a hydrocarbon trap in which closure is caused by a geological fault.
- fault tree — a diagram providing a model of the interactions between the components of a system when a failure occurs
- fault zone — a network of interconnected fractures representing the surficial expression of a fault.
- fault-find — to seek out minor imperfections or errors; carp
- faultiness — having faults or defects; imperfect.
- favourable — Pleasing, encouraging or approving.
- favourably — (British, Canada) In a favourable manner.
- favourless — without favour, unfortunate
- feateously — in a featous manner
- febrifugal — of or acting as a febrifuge.
- feudalized — Simple past tense and past participle of feudalize.
- fiducially — accepted as a fixed basis of reference or comparison: a fiducial point; a fiducial temperature.
- find fault — a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
- fissurella — (zoology) Any of the genus Fissurella of marine gastropod mollusks.
- flacourtia — designating a family (Flacourtiaceae, order Violales) of dicotyledonous tropical trees and shrubs
- flagitious — shamefully wicked, as persons, actions, or times.
- flamininus — Titus Quinctius (ˈtaɪtəs ˈkwɪŋktɪəs). ?230–?174 bc, Roman general and statesman: defeated Macedonia (197) and proclaimed the independence of the Greek states (196)
- flash burn — a burn produced by brief exposure to intense, radiant heat, as from an explosion.
- flash tube — a gaseous discharge tube designed to emit extremely short bursts of very intense light
- flash unit — an electronic flash and its power supply in a compact unit.
- flashbulbs — Plural form of flashbulb.
- flat thunk — (programming) A software mechanism that allows a Win32 application to load and call a 16-bit DLL, or a 16-bit application to load and call a Win32 DLL. See also generic thunk, universal thunk.
- flatterous — flattering
- flatulence — generating gas in the alimentary canal, as food.
- flatulency — (chiefly, dated) flatulence.
- flaunching — The sloped mortar fillet around the base of a chimney pot, which serves to hold the pot in position and allow rainwater to run off.
- flauntiest — Superlative form of flaunty.
- flavivirus — Any of a group of RNA viruses, mostly having arthropod vectors, that cause a number of serious human diseases including yellow fever, dengue, various types of encephalitis, and hepatitis C.