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14-letter words containing a, f, l, u

  • deflocculation — to reduce from a flocculent state by dispersing the flocculated particles.
  • delta function — a generalized function having the value 0 except at 0, the value infinity at 0, and an integral from minus infinity to plus infinity of 1, used in thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.
  • diffuse nebula — nebula (def 1a).
  • dip-slip fault — a fault on which the movement is in the direction of the dip of the fault
  • disdainfulness — The state or quality of being disdainful.
  • disregardfully — In a disregardful manner; negligently; heedlessly.
  • double feature — a motion-picture program consisting of two films shown one after the other for the price of a single ticket.
  • earl of surrey — Earl of (Henry Howard) 1517?–47, English poet.
  • emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
  • engine failure — failure to operate by the engine of an aircraft, car, or other vehicle
  • factory outlet — a store that sells factory-made goods directly to consumers for less than current retail prices.
  • faculty lounge — a staffroom
  • fairy bluebird — any fruit-eating passerine bird of the genus Irena, of the East Indies, the males of the several species being characteristically black below and purple-blue above.
  • fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
  • fallopian tube — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
  • family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
  • family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
  • farmhouse loaf — a large white loaf, baked in a tin, with slightly curved sides and top
  • fasciculations — Plural form of fasciculation.
  • fault tolerant — fault tolerance
  • fault-tolerant — designed to return to a safe condition in the event of a failure or malfunction
  • favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
  • feature-length — long enough to be made a feature; of full length: a feature-length story; a feature-length film.
  • field guidance — a method of guiding a missile to a point within a gravitational or radio field by means of the properties of the field
  • field larkspur — a European plant, Consolida regalis, of the buttercup family, having sparse clusters of blue or violet-colored flowers and smooth fruit.
  • file signature — A magic number.
  • final judgment — judgment (def 8).
  • final solution — the Nazi program of annihilating the Jews of Europe during the Third Reich.
  • first language — mother tongue
  • first quartile — (in a frequency distribution) the smallest quartile; the twenty-fifth percentile; the value of the variable below which one quarter of the elements are located.
  • flagelliferous — bearing a flagellum
  • flagitiousness — The state or quality of being flagitious.
  • flame-coloured — having a strong reddish-orange colour
  • flannelmouthed — talking thickly, slowly, or haltingly.
  • flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
  • flat back four — a set of four fullbacks in line formation
  • floating cloud — Drifting Cloud, The.
  • fluid dynamics — the branch of fluid mechanics dealing with the properties of fluids in motion.
  • fluoboric acid — a clear, colorless liquid, HBF 4 , that ionizes abundantly in solution, used chiefly in the synthesis of fluoborates.
  • fluoridization — to treat, impregnate, or affect with a fluoride.
  • fluorochemical — a chemical compound containing fluorine.
  • flying gurnard — any marine fish of the family Dactylopteridae, especially Dactylopterus volitans, having greatly enlarged, colorful pectoral fins that enable it to glide short distances through the air.
  • follow-up call — a telephone call made as a follow-up to a letter, fax, meeting, etc
  • follow-up care — care provided for a patient after medical or surgical treatment
  • formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
  • foundationally — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
  • foundationless — Without foundation; unfounded.
  • fountain plant — Joseph's-coat.
  • fraudulentness — (rare) fraudulence.
  • frenet formula — one of a set of formulas for finding the curvature and torsion of a plane or space curve in terms of vectors tangent or normal to the curve.
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