12-letter words containing a, l, u
- evolutionary — Of or relating to evolution.
- exalbuminous — (of a seed embryo) having no albumen
- exarticulate — (zoology) Having only one joint; said of certain insects.
- exclusionary — restrictive or elitist
- exhaustingly — In an exhausting manner.
- exhaustively — In an exhaustive manner.
- exonucleases — Plural form of exonuclease.
- exophthalmus — Alt form exophthalmos.
- expostulated — Simple past tense and past participle of expostulate.
- expostulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of expostulate.
- exsufflation — (obsolete) A blast from beneath.
- exsufflicate — Empty, inflated, frivolous.
- extramurally — In an extramural manner.
- extramusical — outside the field or scope of music
- extraneously — In an extraneous manner.
- extranuclear — situated or occurring in part of a cell outside the nucleus
- extratextual — Outside of a text.
- exulceration — the process of ulceration
- fabulousness — almost impossible to believe; incredible.
- facial scrub — a beauty product or treatment which cleanses and exfoliates the skin of the face
- factitiously — In a factitious manner.
- factualities — of or relating to facts; concerning facts: factual accuracy.
- faithfullest — Superlative form of faithful.
- faithfulness — strict or thorough in the performance of duty: a faithful worker.
- 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 cirrus — a type of thick cirrus cloud spreading from the top of a cumulonimbus cloud
- 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 album — photos of a family
- family court — court of domestic relations.
- fan vaulting — a system of fan vaults.
- fancifulness — The quality of being fanciful.
- faneuil hall — a market house and public hall in Boston, Massachusetts, called “the Cradle of Liberty” because it was used as a meeting place by American patriots immediately before the Revolutionary War.
- fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
- fascicularly — in a fascicular manner
- fasciculated — Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.
- fastidiously — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- fatigue life — the number of applications of a given stress to which a sample of metal can be subjected before failing.
- fault-finder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
- faultfinding — the act of pointing out faults, especially faults of a petty nature; carping.
- fauxmosexual — (slang) A heterosexual person who affects homosexual characteristics.
- feature film — full-length movie
- feeler gauge — a person or thing that feels.
- fenfluramine — a sympathomimetic substance, C 12 H 16 F 3 N, formerly used mainly as an anorectic in the treatment of obesity but withdrawn from the market in 1997 because of its potential to cause valvular heart disease.
- fergus falls — a city in W central Minnesota.
- ferulic acid — a compound, C 10 H 10 O 4 , found in small amounts in lants, that occurs in two isomers, one a yellow oily liquid and the other crystalline.
- figurability — the quality of being figurable
- figuratively — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
- final clause — a clause expressing intention or purpose