11-letter words containing a, f, u
- guaifenesin — An expectorant used in cough syrups and sometimes for pain relief from fibromyalgia.
- guaniferous — yielding guano
- guinea fowl — any of several African, gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Numidinae, especially a common species, Numida meleagris, that has a bony casque on the head and dark gray plumage spotted with white and that is now domesticated and raised for its flesh and eggs.
- gulf states — the oil-producing states around the Persian Gulf: Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman
- gulf stream — a warm ocean current flowing N from the Gulf of Mexico, along the E coast of the U.S., to an area off the SE coast of Newfoundland, where it becomes the western terminus of the North Atlantic Current.
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- half-bushel — a unit of dry measure equal to 2 pecks (17.6 liters).
- half-duplex — of or relating to the transmission of information in opposite directions but not simultaneously.
- half-hunter — a watch with a hinged lid in which a small circular opening or crystal allows the approximate time to be read
- half-minute — 30 seconds
- half-ruined — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- han fei-tzu — died 233 b.c, Chinese philosopher and legal theorist.
- handcuffing — Present participle of handcuff.
- hard-fought — firmly or passionately contested or struggled for
- harmfulness — causing or capable of causing harm; injurious: a harmful idea; a harmful habit.
- hatefulness — arousing hate or deserving to be hated: the hateful oppression of dictators.
- healthfully — conducive to health; wholesome or salutary: a healthful diet.
- high fulham — a die loaded at one corner either to favor a throw of 4, 5, or 6 (high fulham) or to favor a throw of 1, 2, or 3 (low fulham)
- highfalutin — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
- house-craft — skill in domestic management
- housefather — a man responsible for a group of young people, as students, living in a dormitory, hostel, etc.
- hua guofeng — 1920?–2008, Chinese Communist leader: premier 1976–80.
- if you want — as you please
- impactfully — In an impactful fashion.
- increaseful — full of increase; fertile; fruitful
- ineffectual — not effectual; without satisfactory or decisive effect: an ineffectual remedy.
- infatuating — to inspire or possess with a foolish or unreasoning passion, as of love.
- infatuation — the state of being infatuated.
- infeudation — the act of putting a vassal in possession of a fief
- infibulated — Simple past tense and past participle of infibulate.
- influential — having or exerting influence, especially great influence: three influential educators.
- infortunate — of or relating to infortune.
- infraphylum — (taxonomy) A taxon below subphylum and above superclass.
- infundibula — Plural form of infundibulum.
- infuriating — Archaic. infuriated.
- infuriation — to make furious; enrage.
- infusorians — Plural form of infusorian.
- insufflated — Simple past tense and past participle of insufflate.
- insufflator — to blow or breathe (something) in.
- intrafusion — The act of pouring into a vessel.
- intreatfull — full of entreaty
- irrefutable — not capable of being refuted or disproved: irrefutable logic.
- irrefutably — not capable of being refuted or disproved: irrefutable logic.
- janus-faced — having two faces, one looking forward, one looking backward, as the Roman deity Janus.
- jazz-fusion — jazz-rock.
- jesus freak — a member of any of several fundamentalist groups of chiefly young people (Jesus people) originating in the early 1970s and emphasizing intense personal devotion to and study of Jesus Christ and His teachings.
- juan flores — Juan José [hwahn haw-se] /ʰwɑn hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1800–64, Ecuadorian general and statesman: president 1830–35, 1839–45.
- justifiable — capable of being justified; that can be shown to be or can be defended as being just, right, or warranted; defensible: justifiable homicide.
- justifiably — capable of being justified; that can be shown to be or can be defended as being just, right, or warranted; defensible: justifiable homicide.
- kulturkampf — the conflict between the German imperial government and the Roman Catholic Church from 1872 or 1873 until 1886, chiefly over the control of education and ecclesiastical appointments.