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12-letter words containing e, a, r, f, u

  • disregardful — neglectful; careless.
  • dreadfulness — The characteristic of being dreadful.
  • dreamfulness — the quality of being full of dreams
  • duty of care — the legal obligation to safeguard others from harm while they are in your care, using your services, or exposed to your activities
  • dwarf laurel — a low North American shrub, Kalmia angustifolia, of the heath family, having oblong leaves poisonous to grazing animals.
  • effiguration — a detailed and elaborate description of something
  • 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
  • fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
  • farm produce — agricultural products regarded collectively
  • fast neutron — a neutron produced by nuclear fission that has lost little energy by collision; a neutron with a kinetic energy in excess of 0.1 MeV
  • fault-finder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
  • favouredness — the quality of or extent to which something is favoured
  • feature film — full-length movie
  • featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
  • 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— a sympathomimetic substance, C 12 H 16 F 3 N, formerly used mainly as an anorectic in the treatment of obesity but withdrawn from the market in 1997 because of its potential to cause valvular heart disease.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.
  • feuchtwanger — Lion [lee-awn] /ˈli ɔn/ (Show IPA), 1884–1958, German novelist and dramatist.
  • 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.
  • figure skate — a shoe skate used in figure skating, especially one having a blade shorter than that of a racing skate, usually not extending beyond the toe or heel, and with notches or sawteeth on the curved forward edge.
  • figure-skate — to take part in figure skating
  • figured bass — a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them indicating the chords to be played.
  • fire curtain — safety curtain.
  • flammiferous — flame-producing
  • flatterously — in a flatterous manner
  • flour shaker — a container, often with a perforated top, from which flour is shaken
  • fluidextract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
  • fluoranthene — (organic compound) A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon consisting of a benzene ring attached to each of the rings of a naphthalene molecule; it is carcinogenic, and is a product of incomplete combustion.
  • fluorapatite — a crystalline mineral, Ca 5 (PO 4) 3 F, formed from hydroxyapatite in the presence of fluoride, that has a hardening effect on bones and teeth.
  • flusteration — (colloquial, dated) The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered.
  • flutterballs — Plural form of flutterball.
  • flutterboard — a kickboard.
  • fluviomarine — of or formed by the combined action of river and sea.
  • forepleasure — the aggregate of pleasurable sensations that lead to a heightened physical or emotional response, as of those aroused in sexual intercourse that lead to an orgasm.
  • forequarters — the forward end of half of a carcass, as of beef or lamb.
  • formal cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
  • formularized — Simple past tense and past participle of formularize.
  • formularizer — One who formularizes.
  • formularizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formularize.
  • foundationer — a person supported by funds from a foundation, or serving as a member of a foundation
  • four-channel — Audio. quadraphonic.
  • fourses cake — a traditional English bread made with lard, dried fruit, and spices
  • fourth grade — school year: age 9-10
  • frame buffer — (hardware)   Part of a video system in which an image is stored, pixel by pixel and which is used to refresh a raster image. The term "video memory" suggests a fairly static display whereas a frame buffer holds one frame from a sequence of frames forming a moving image. Frame buffers are found in frame grabbers and time base correction systems, for example.
  • franc-tireur — a sharpshooter in the French army.
  • frankfurters — Plural form of frankfurter.
  • fraudulently — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
  • french sudan — former name of Mali.
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