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13-letter words containing a, f, u

  • frumentarious — of or relating to wheat or a similar grain
  • frustratingly — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
  • fuel air bomb — a type of bomb that spreads a cloud of gas, which is then detonated, over the target area, causing extensive destruction
  • fuerteventura — a Spanish island off the NW coast of Africa, one of the Canary Islands. 641 sq. mi. (1660 sq. km).
  • fugaciousness — (obsolete) fugacity.
  • fulani empire — a powerful W African Muslim state that flourished in the 19th century in the area of present-day Nigeria.
  • fulbright act — an act of Congress (1946) by which funds derived chiefly from the sale of U.S. surplus property abroad are made available to U.S. citizens for study, research, and teaching in foreign countries as well as to foreigners to engage in similar activities in the U.S.
  • full laziness — (functional programming)   A transformation, described by Wadsworth in 1971, which ensures that subexpressions in a function body which do not depend on the function's arguments are only evaluated once. E.g. each time the function f x = x + sqrt 4 is applied, (sqrt 4) will be evaluated. Since (sqrt 4) does not depend on x, we could transform this to: f x = x + sqrt4 sqrt4 = sqrt 4 We have replaced the dynamically created (sqrt 4) with a single shared constant which, in a graph reduction system, will be evaluated the first time it is needed and then updated with its value. See also fully lazy lambda lifting, let floating.
  • full of beans — the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
  • full-flavored — Full-flavored food or wine has a pleasant fairly strong taste.
  • full-throated — A full-throated sound coming from someone's mouth, such as a shout or a laugh, is very loud.
  • fulminic acid — an unstable acid, CNOH, isomeric with cyanic acid, and known only in the form of its salts.
  • fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
  • fun and games — frivolously diverting activity.
  • funambulation — the act of walking on a tightrope; funambulism
  • funambulatory — relating to tightrope-walking
  • functionalise — to make functional.
  • functionalism — (usually initial capital letter) Chiefly Architecture, Furniture. a design movement evolved from several previous movements or schools in Europe in the early 20th century, advocating the design of buildings, furnishings, etc., as direct fulfillments of material requirements, as for shelter, repose, or the serving of food, with the construction, materials, and purpose clearly expressed or at least not denied, and with aesthetic effect derived chiefly from proportions and finish, purely decorative effects being excluded or greatly subordinated. the doctrines and practices associated with this movement. Compare rationalism (def 4).
  • functionalist — a person who advocates, or works according to, the principles of functionalism.
  • functionality — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • functionalize — to make functional.
  • functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
  • fundamentally — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
  • funeral march — march played for funeral processions
  • furaciousness — the quality of being furacious or thievish
  • furniture van — a van designed to move the furniture of a house, office, etc, to another place
  • fusarium wilt — a disease of plants, characterized by damping-off, wilting, and a brown dry rot, caused by fungi of the genus Fusarium.
  • fusible metal — any of various alloys, as of bismuth, lead, and tin, that melt at temperatures as low as 160°F (70°C), making them useful in various safety devices.
  • futilitarians — Plural form of futilitarian.
  • futtock plate — a metal plate placed perpendicular to the top of a ship's lower mast to hold the futtock shrouds.
  • future farmer — a member of the Future Farmers of America.
  • futurity race — a race for two-year-old horses in which the entries are selected before birth
  • futurological — Pertaining to futurology.
  • gabriel fauré — Gabriel Urbain [ga-bree-el oor-ban] /ga briˈɛl urˈbɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1845–1924, French composer.
  • gallimaufries — Plural form of gallimaufry.
  • garnetiferous — containing or yielding garnets.
  • gelandelaufer — a participant in cross-country skiing.
  • granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
  • gravity fault — a fault along an inclined plane in which the upper side or hanging wall appears to have moved downward with respect to the lower side or footwall (opposed to reverse fault).
  • gulf of gabès — an inlet of the Mediterranean on the E coast of Tunisia
  • gulf of papua — an inlet of the Coral Sea in the SE coast of New Guinea
  • gulf of saros — an inlet of the Aegean in NW Turkey, north of the Gallipoli Peninsula. Length: 59 km (37 miles). Width: 35 km (22 miles)
  • gulf of sidra — a wide inlet of the Mediterranean on the N coast of Libya
  • gulf-of-saros — Gulf of, an inlet of the Aegean, N of the Gallipoli Peninsula. 37 miles (60 km) long; 22 miles (35 km) wide.
  • half coupling — a flange fixed at the end of each of the two shafts that are connected in a flange coupling
  • half measures — inadequate measures or actions
  • half mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  • half-educated — having undergone education: educated people.
  • half-mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  • half-quartern — a loaf having a weight, when baked, of 800 g
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