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14-letter words containing c, u, f, l

  • family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
  • fasciculations — Plural form of fasciculation.
  • felicitousness — The state or condition of being felicitous.
  • fertility cult — a religious cult devoted to the enhancement of the fertility of persons, plants, or animals, by means of rituals often associated with a particular deity.
  • field guidance — a method of guiding a missile to a point within a gravitational or radio field by means of the properties of the field
  • fifth republic — the republic established in France in 1958, the successor to the Fourth Republic.
  • first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
  • flame-coloured — having a strong reddish-orange colour
  • flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
  • flat back four — a set of four fullbacks in line formation
  • flesh-coloured — Something that is flesh-coloured is yellowish pink in colour.
  • floating cloud — Drifting Cloud, The.
  • floriculturist — the cultivation of flowers or flowering plants, especially for ornamental purposes.
  • flower-de-luce — the iris flower or plant.
  • fluid coupling — Machinery. an apparatus in which a fluid, usually oil, transmits torque from one shaft to another, producing an equal torque in the other shaft.
  • fluid dynamics — the branch of fluid mechanics dealing with the properties of fluids in motion.
  • fluoboric acid — a clear, colorless liquid, HBF 4 , that ionizes abundantly in solution, used chiefly in the synthesis of fluoborates.
  • fluorochemical — a chemical compound containing fluorine.
  • flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
  • 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.
  • follow-up call — a telephone call made as a follow-up to a letter, fax, meeting, etc
  • follow-up care — care provided for a patient after medical or surgical treatment
  • food colouring — substances used to impart colour to food
  • forklift truck — vehicle for lifting heavy loads
  • fourfold block — a block having four pulleys or sheaves. Compare block (def 11).
  • french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
  • french cruller — cruller (def 2).
  • french-cruller — a rich, light cake cut from a rolled dough and deep-fried, usually having a twisted oblong shape and sometimes topped with sugar or icing.
  • 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.
  • fuel-efficient — producing power, heat, etc., at a rate considered optimal with regard to the amount of fuel consumed.
  • 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.
  • futuristically — of or relating to the future: a futuristic view of the world.
  • gouldian finch — a multicoloured finch, Chloebia gouldiae, of tropical N Australia
  • gulf of cambay — an inlet of the Arabian Sea on the W coast of India, southeast of the Kathiawar Peninsula
  • gulf of mexico — a republic in S North America. 761,530 sq. mi. (1,972,363 sq. km). . Capital: Mexico City.
  • half-conscious — aware of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
  • hydraulic lift — an elevator operated by fluid pressure, especially one used for raising automobiles in service stations and garages.
  • in actual fact — You use in fact, in actual fact, or in point of fact to indicate that you are giving more detailed information about what you have just said.
  • in full career — at full speed
  • ineffectuality — not effectual; without satisfactory or decisive effect: an ineffectual remedy.
  • infelicitously — In a way that is infelicitous or unfortunate.
  • inference rule — (logic)   A procedure which combines known facts to produce ("infer") new facts. For example, given that 1. Socrates is a man and that 2. all men are motal, we can infer that Socrates is mortal. This uses the rule known as "modus ponens" which can be written in Boolean algebra as (A & A => B) => B (if proposition A is true, and A implies B, then B is true). Or given that, 1. Either Denis is programming or Denis is sad and 2. Denis is not sad, we can infer that Denis is programming. This rule can be written ((A OR B) & not B) => A (If either A is true or B is true (or both), and B is false, then A must be true). Compare syllogism.
  • insufficiently — not sufficient; lacking in what is necessary or required: an insufficient answer.
  • interinfluence — to influence reciprocally or mutually
  • kentucky rifle — a long-barreled muzzleloading flintlock rifle developed near Lancaster, Pa., in the early 18th century and widely used on the frontier.
  • leafcutter ant — any of various South American ants of the genus Atta that cut pieces of leaves and use them as fertilizer for the fungus on which they feed
  • leafcutter bee — any of various solitary bees of the genus Megachile that nest in soil or rotten wood, constructing the cells in which they lay their eggs from pieces of leaf
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