14-letter words containing c, o, t, u
- fictitiousness — The state of being fictitious.
- flat back four — a set of four fullbacks in line formation
- floating cloud — Drifting Cloud, The.
- floriculturist — the cultivation of flowers or flowering plants, especially for ornamental purposes.
- focusing cloth — an opaque cloth surrounding the ground glass of a camera so as to shield the eyes of the photographer from light that would otherwise prevent seeing the image in the ground glass.
- forklift truck — vehicle for lifting heavy loads
- fortune cookie — a thin folded wafer containing a prediction or maxim printed on a slip of paper: often served as a dessert in Chinese restaurants.
- founder effect — the accumulation of random genetic changes in an isolated population as a result of its proliferation from only a few parent colonizers.
- frozen account — A frozen account is a bank account that cannot have money withdrawn from it, because of a court order.
- frozen custard — a smooth-textured, soft, frozen-food product of whole milk, and sometimes cream, egg yolk, etc., sweetened and variously flavored, often served in an ice-cream cone.
- fructification — act of fructifying; the fruiting of a plant, fungus, etc.
- fruit cocktail — an assortment of fruits cut into sections or pieces and served in a cup or a glass as an appetizer or dessert.
- fuel injection — the spraying of liquid fuel into the cylinders or combustion chambers of an engine.
- function creep — the gradual widening of the use of a technology or system beyond the purpose for which it was originally intended, esp when this leads to potential invasion of privacy
- function shift — a change in the syntactic function of a word, as when the noun mushroom is used as an intransitive verb
- function space — a linear space, the elements of which are functions.
- functionalised — to make functional.
- functionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of functionalize.
- fundoplication — (surgery) An operation in which the gastric fundus (upper part) of the stomach is wrapped, or plicated, around the lower end of the esophagus and stitched in place, reinforcing the closing function of the lower esophageal sphincter. The esophageal hiatus is also narrowed down by sutures to prevent or treat concurrent hiatal hernia, in which the fundus slides up through the enlarged esophageal hiatus of the diaphragm.
- fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
- futtock shroud — any of several metal rods secured at their lower ends to a futtock band and at their upper ends to a futtock plate, connecting the lower mast to the topmast rigging.
- galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
- galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
- gamma function — a function defined by Γ(x) = ∫0∞tx–1e–tdt, where x is real and greater than zero
- gastrovascular — serving for digestion and circulation, as a cavity.
- gaudi i cornet — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ɑnˈtɔ ni/ (Show IPA), 1852–1926, Spanish architect and designer.
- geiger counter — an instrument for detecting ionizing radiations, consisting of a gas-filled tube in which electric-current pulses are produced when the gas is ionized by radiation, and of a device to register these pulses: used chiefly to measure radioactivity.
- geolinguistics — the study of the geographical distribution of languages
- gesticulations — Plural form of gesticulation.
- get the bounce — to dismiss or be dismissed from a job
- gibbs function — the thermodynamic function of a system that is equal to its enthalpy minus the product of its absolute temperture and entropy: a decrease in the function is equal to the maximum amount of work available exclusive of that due to pressure times volume change during a reversible, isothermal, isobaric process.
- global product — a commercial product that is marketed throughout the world under the same brand name
- glucocorticoid — any of a class of steroid hormones that are synthesized by the adrenal cortex of vertebrates and have anti-inflammatory activity.
- golden currant — a western North American shrub, Ribes aureum, of the saxifrage family, having purplish fruit and fragrant, drooping clusters of yellow flowers that turn reddish.
- grand junction — a city in W Colorado.
- ground control — an airport facility that supervises the movement of aircraft and ground vehicles on ramps and taxiways.
- group practice — Also called group medicine. the practice of medicine by an association of physicians and other health professionals who work together, usually in one suite of offices.
- group velocity — the velocity of finite numbers of waves undergoing simple harmonic motion, equal to the phase velocity when it does not vary with the wavelengths of the waves. The group velocity of the set of waves produced in water when a stone is dropped is less than the velocity of the individual waves.
- gunstock stile — (in a door) a diminished stile having an oblique transition between the broader and narrower parts.
- hallucinations — Plural form of hallucination.
- heat conductor — a material or device that conducts heat
- hepatocellular — pertaining to or affecting liver cells.
- heroic couplet — a stanza consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter, especially one forming a rhetorical unit and written in an elevated style, as, Know then thyself, presume not God to scan / The proper study of Mankind is Man.
- heterochromous — of different colors.
- heterochronous — a genetic shift in timing of the development of a tissue or anatomical part, or in the onset of a physiological process, relative to an ancestor.
- holy scripture — Scripture (def 1).
- homomultimeric — (biochemistry) Describing a protein containing two or more identical polypeptide chains.
- horse chestnut — a tree, Aesculus hippocastanum, native to the Old World, having digitate leaves and upright clusters of white flowers.
- horse-chestnut — a tree, Aesculus hippocastanum, native to the Old World, having digitate leaves and upright clusters of white flowers.
- horticulturist — the cultivation of a garden, orchard, or nursery; the cultivation of flowers, fruits, vegetables, or ornamental plants.