11-letter words containing a, f, u
- feather cut — a woman's hair style in which the hair is cut in short and uneven lengths and formed into small curls with featherlike tips.
- feather-cut — a woman's hair style in which the hair is cut in short and uneven lengths and formed into small curls with featherlike tips.
- feature key — (hardware) (Or "flower", "pretzel", "clover", "propeller", "beanie" (from propeller beanie), splat, "command key") The Macintosh modifier key with the four-leaf clover graphic on its keytop. The feature key is the Mac's equivalent of a control key (and so labelled on some Mac II keyboards). The proliferation of terms for this creature may illustrate one subtle peril of iconic interfaces. Macs also have an "Option" modifier key, equivalent to Alt. The cloverleaf-like symbol's oldest name is "cross of St. Hannes", but it occurs in pre-Christian Viking art as a decorative motif. In Scandinavia it marks sites of historical interest. An early Macintosh developer who happened to be Swedish introduced it to Apple. Apple documentation gives the translation "interesting feature". The symbol has a Unicode character called "PLACE OF INTEREST SIGN" (U+2318), previously known as "command key". The Swedish name of this symbol stands for the word "sev"ardhet" (interesting feature), many of which are old churches. Some Swedes report as an idiom for it the word "kyrka", cognate to English "church" and Scots-dialect "kirk" but pronounced /shir'k*/ in modern Swedish. Others say this is nonsense.
- featureless — without distinctive features; uninteresting, plain, or drab: a featureless landscape.
- fecundating — Present participle of fecundate.
- fecundation — to make prolific or fruitful.
- feudalistic — the feudal system, or its principles and practices.
- feudalities — Plural form of feudality.
- feudatories — Plural form of feudatory.
- fiduciaries — Plural form of fiduciary.
- fiduciarily — Law. a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.
- figurations — Plural form of figuration.
- figureheads — Plural form of figurehead.
- filamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
- final cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- fingerguard — something that protects the fingers
- first cause — God.
- fish manure — solid waste from fish, used as a fertilizer
- fissiparous — reproducing by fission.
- flammulated — reddish in colour
- flat tuning — the condition of a radio receiver that does not discriminate sharply between signals on different frequencies
- flatten out — to make or become flat or flatter by spreading out
- flatulating — to expel intestinal gas through the anus.
- flatulation — to expel intestinal gas through the anus.
- flatulently — In a flatulent manner or fashion.
- flauntingly — In a flaunting manner.
- flavourings — Plural form of flavouring.
- flavourless — British standard spelling of flavorless.
- flavoursome — Alternative spelling of flavorsome.
- flea circus — a number of fleas trained to perform tricks, as for a carnival sideshow
- flirtatious — given or inclined to flirtation.
- flocculated — Collected together in a loose aggregation like flocks (tufts) of wool, or coagulated in this way.
- flocculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flocculate.
- flocculator — to form into flocculent masses.
- floral tube — a cylinder formed in some flowers by the fusion of the perianth and stamens, as in the daffodil or iris.
- floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
- fluconazole — An antifungal drug used especially against Candida.
- fluctuating — to change continually; shift back and forth; vary irregularly: The price of gold fluctuated wildly last month.
- fluctuation — continual change from one point or condition to another.
- flumadiddle — utter nonsense.
- fluoridated — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoridate.
- fluoridates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fluoridate.
- fluorinated — Simple past tense and past participle of fluorinate.
- fluorinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fluorinate.
- flusterated — flustered; agitated.
- flustration — the state of being flustrated or flustered
- fluticasone — (organic compound) A synthetic corticosteroid whose furoate and propionate forms are used as topical anti-inflammatories.
- flutterball — (baseball) A type of pitch; knuckleball.
- fluvastatin — A drug of the statin class, used to treat hypercholesterolemia and to prevent cardiovascular disease.
- fluvoxamine — an antidepressant drug that acts by preventing the re-uptake after release of serotonin in the brain, thereby prolonging its action