12-letter words containing a, f, o, u
- crop failure — a failure of crops to yield sufficient food, etc, to maintain a community or to provide a surplus to sell
- currant loaf — a loaf-shaped fruit cake containing currants
- curry favour — to ingratiate oneself, esp with superiors
- curvifoliate — having leaves curved or bent back
- cut-off date — the last date on which it is possible to do something
- dame fortune — the personification of fortune as a woman
- deflocculant — a chemical added to slip to increase fluidity.
- deflocculate — to disperse, forming a colloid or suspension
- defraudation — (obsolete) The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud.
- dibenzofuran — an organic compound (C12H8O) composed of two benzene rings fused to a central furan ring
- difunctional — Bifunctional.
- double fault — (in tennis, squash, handball, etc.) two faults in succession, resulting in the loss of the point, the loss of the serve, or both.
- double-faced — practicing duplicity; hypocritical.
- draughtproof — That prevents the access of draughts.
- duke of alba — Duke of, Alva, Fernando Alvarez de Toledo.
- duty of care — the legal obligation to safeguard others from harm while they are in your care, using your services, or exposed to your activities
- east suffolk — a former administrative division of Suffolk county, in E England.
- effectuation — to bring about; effect.
- effiguration — a detailed and elaborate description of something
- eisteddfodau — Plural form of eisteddfod.
- exsufflation — (obsolete) A blast from beneath.
- fabulousness — almost impossible to believe; incredible.
- face down/up — If someone or something is face down, their face or front points downwards. If they are face up, their face or front points upwards.
- factiousness — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
- factitiously — In a factitious manner.
- factor group — quotient group.
- fair housing — the sale and rental of private housing free of discriminatory practices or policies.
- fall foul of — to come into conflict with
- fall through — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- fallaciously — In a fallacious manner, erroneously, illogically.
- false colour — colour used in a computer or photographic display to help in interpreting the image, as in the use of red to show high temperatures and blue to show low temperatures in an infrared image converter
- family court — court of domestic relations.
- fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
- farm produce — agricultural products regarded collectively
- fashiousness — the quality of being fashious; troublesomeness
- fast neutron — a neutron produced by nuclear fission that has lost little energy by collision; a neutron with a kinetic energy in excess of 0.1 MeV
- fastidiously — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- fauxmosexual — (slang) A heterosexual person who affects homosexual characteristics.
- favouredness — the quality of or extent to which something is favoured
- featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
- finno-ugrian — pertaining to the Finns and the Ugrians.
- flagitiously — In a flagitious manner.
- flammiferous — flame-producing
- flammulation — a small flame-shaped marking, esp those seen on some birds
- flannelmouth — a person whose speech is thick, slow, or halting.
- flatterously — in a flatterous manner
- float around — A rumour or idea that is floating around is often heard or talked about.
- flocculating — Present participle of flocculate.
- flocculation — to form into flocculent masses.
- flour shaker — a container, often with a perforated top, from which flour is shaken