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12-letter words containing a, f, o, u, l

  • gourd family — the plant family Cucurbitaceae, characterized by tendril-bearing vines, either trailing or climbing and having alternate, palmately lobed leaves, often large yellow or greenish flowers, and many-seeded, fleshy fruit with a hard rind, and including the cucumber, gourd, melon, pumpkin, and squash.
  • graham flour — unbolted wheat flour, containing all of the wheat grain; whole-wheat flour.
  • ground fault — the momentary, usually accidental, grounding of a conducting wire.
  • gulf of aden — a waterway in the Arabian sea between Yemen and Somalia and connecting with the Red Sea
  • gulf of oman — a strait that ultimately links the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf
  • gulf of riga — a large deep bay on the Baltic Sea
  • gulf of siam — an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina
  • half an hour — 30 minutes
  • half serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
  • half-serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
  • hexafluoride — a fluoride containing six atoms of fluorine.
  • hydrosulfate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
  • ill-favoured — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
  • inconfutable — (obsolete) Not confutable.
  • infibulation — the stitching together of the vulva, often after a clitoridectomy, leaving a small opening for the passage of urine and menstrual blood.
  • insufflation — to blow or breathe (something) in.
  • iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
  • jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
  • jugal furrow — (in certain insects) the crease, between the anal and jugal veins, along which the wing folds.
  • labour force — The labour force consists of all the people who are able to work in a country or area, or all the people who work for a particular company.
  • laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
  • leaf through — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
  • ligulifloral — having strap-shaped flowers
  • liquefaction — the act or process of liquefying or making liquid.
  • loathfulness — (rare) The condition of being loathful; reluctance.
  • lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
  • malfunctions — Plural form of malfunction.
  • multifarious — having many different parts, elements, forms, etc.
  • multifoliate — having many leaves or leaflets.
  • natural food — Natural food is food which has not been processed much and has not had artificial ingredients added to it.
  • neofeudalism — A theorized contemporary rebirth of policies of governance, economy and public life reminiscent of those present in many feudal societies.
  • newfoundland — a large island in E Canada. 42,734 sq. mi. (110,680 sq. km).
  • nonformulary — Not formulary.
  • nonqualified — unqualified (def 1).
  • normal fault — gravity fault.
  • old faithful — one of the best known geysers of Yellowstone National Park.
  • on all fours — all four limbs or extremities; the four legs or feet of an animal or both arms and both legs or both hands and both feet of a person: The cat rolled off the ledge but landed on all fours.
  • out of place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
  • out of scale — If something is out of scale with the things near it, it is too big or too small in relation to them.
  • over-qualify — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
  • pasqueflower — an Old World plant, Anemone pulsatilla, of the buttercup family, having purple, crocuslike flowers blooming about Easter.
  • patent flour — a fine grade of flour, consisting chiefly of the inner part of the endosperm.
  • petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
  • poplar bluff — a city in SE Missouri.
  • potato flour — a type of flour made from potatoes
  • poultry farm — place where fowl are bred
  • preformulate — to describe an active pharmaceutical ingredient chemically
  • qualificator — (in an ecclesiastical court) an officer charged with examining cases and preparing them for trial.
  • roman-fleuve — saga (def 3).
  • run afoul of — fall foul / afoul of, to collide with, as ships. to come into conflict with; quarrel. to make an attack; assault.
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