13-letter words containing a, f, u
- calf's tongue — a molding having pendent, tonguelike members in relief against a flat or molded surface.
- campaign fund — money for a campaign, as of a political candidate, usually acquired through contributions by supporters.
- candlesnuffer — an implement, or person, that extinguishes candle flames
- cantus firmus — an existing melody used as the basis for a new polyphonic composition
- carboniferous — yielding coal or carbon
- carrickfergus — a town in E Northern Ireland, in Carrickfergus district, Co Antrim; historic settlement of Scottish Protestants on Belfast Lough; Norman castle. Pop: 27 201 (2001)
- casual friday — In some companies, employees are allowed to wear clothes that are more informal than usual on a Friday. This day is known as a casual Friday.
- caudine forks — a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)
- caulifloweret — an individual floret from a cauliflower
- cause offence — If you cause offence or give offence to someone, you say or do something rude which upsets or embarrasses them.
- cellar fungus — a fungus, Coniophora puteana, that causes dry rot in timber.
- centrifugally — Away from a centre or axis.
- changefulness — Propensity to change.
- church father — any of the writers on Christian doctrine of the pre-Scholastic period
- circular file — a wastebasket
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- comme il faut — correct or correctly
- compound leaf — a leaf consisting of two or more leaflets borne on the same leafstalk
- confabulating — Present participle of confabulate.
- confabulation — the act of confabulating; conversation; discussion.
- confabulatory — the act of confabulating; conversation; discussion.
- configurating — to give a configuration, form, or design to.
- configuration — A configuration is an arrangement of a group of things.
- configurative — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
- confusticated — Simple past tense and past participle of confusticate.
- contrafactual — counterfactual.
- coralliferous — bearing or containing coral
- counter shaft — A counter shaft is a shaft that runs parallel to the main shaft in a gearbox, and carries the pinion wheels.
- counter staff — people who work behind the counter of a bank, post office, etc
- countershafts — Plural form of countershaft.
- county family — an old family that has lived in a particular county for several generations
- cup of elijah — Elijah's cup.
- cut-off valve — a valve that terminates the flow of fluid in a system
- deaf-and-dumb — unable to hear or speak
- dean of guild — the titular head of the guild or merchant company in a Scots burgh, who formerly exercised jurisdiction over all building in the burgh in the Dean of Guild Court
- death futures — life insurance policies of terminally ill people that are bought speculatively for a lump sum by a company, enabling it to collect the proceeds of the policies when the sufferers die
- default route — (networking) A routing table entry which is used to direct packets addressed to hosts or networks not explicitly listed in the routing table.
- demanufacture — A process of recycling that involves the dismantling and/or disassembly of an item to gain the maximum amount of recyclable materials.
- desulfuration — to desulfurize.
- digital fount — a typeface of which the letter-shapes have been converted into digital form so that they can be used in computer-aided typesetting
- disaster fund — a fund set up to relieve people or countries afflicted by a disaster
- disfiguration — an act or instance of disfiguring.
- disfunctional — dysfunction.
- disgracefully — In a disgraceful manner.
- disqualifying — Present participle of disqualify.
- distastefully — In a distasteful manner.
- dysfunctional — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
- effectualness — The state or condition of being effectual.
- efficaciously — capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy, etc.: The medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough.
- facetiousness — (uncountable) The state of being facetious.