14-letter words containing e, a, r, f, u
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- fancy geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium domesticum, of southern Africa, having roundish clusters of large white, pink, or red flowers.
- fanum fortunae — ancient name of Fano.
- farey sequence — the increasing sequence of fractions in which numerator and denominator have no common divisor other than one and in which the denominator is less than or equal to a given positive integer p. For p = 4, the Farey sequence of order 4 is 0/1, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 1/1.
- farmhouse loaf — a large white loaf, baked in a tin, with slightly curved sides and top
- fault tolerant — fault tolerance
- fault-tolerant — designed to return to a safe condition in the event of a failure or malfunction
- favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
- feather duster — a brush for dusting, made of a bundle of large feathers attached to a short handle.
- feature editor — a newspaper or magazine journalist who commissions and edits feature articles
- feature writer — a newspaper or magazine journalist who writes feature articles
- feature-length — long enough to be made a feature; of full length: a feature-length story; a feature-length film.
- field larkspur — a European plant, Consolida regalis, of the buttercup family, having sparse clusters of blue or violet-colored flowers and smooth fruit.
- fiesta taurina — fiesta de toros.
- figurativeness — The property of being figurative.
- figure skating — ice skating in which the skater traces intricate patterns on the ice.
- file signature — A magic number.
- fire apparatus — equipment for extinguishing destructive fires.
- fire insurance — insurance covering any loss or damage caused by fire.
- first language — mother tongue
- first quartile — (in a frequency distribution) the smallest quartile; the twenty-fifth percentile; the value of the variable below which one quarter of the elements are located.
- flagelliferous — bearing a flagellum
- 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.
- fluorochemical — a chemical compound containing fluorine.
- follow-up care — care provided for a patient after medical or surgical treatment
- foramen magnum — the large opening in the base of the skull forming the passage from the cranial cavity to the spinal canal.
- foraminiferous — Having small openings, or foramina.
- formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
- fraise du bois — a wild strawberry.
- framing square — a steel square usually having on its faces various tables and scales useful to the carpenter.
- francois guise — François de Lorraine [frahn-swa duh law-ren] /frɑ̃ˈswa də lɔˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), 2nd Duc de, 1519–63, French general and statesman.
- fraudulentness — (rare) fraudulence.
- free churchman — (sometimes initial capital letters) a member of a free church.
- french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
- frenet formula — one of a set of formulas for finding the curvature and torsion of a plane or space curve in terms of vectors tangent or normal to the curve.
- frequency band — band2 (def 9).
- 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.
- fructificative — having the ability to yield or produce fruit.
- full-flavoured — Full-flavoured food or wine has a pleasant fairly strong taste.
- fuller's earth — an absorbent clay, used especially for removing grease from fabrics, in fulling cloth, as a filter, and as a dusting powder.
- fully-featured — having a full range of features or functions
- funeral parlor — A funeral parlor is the same as a funeral home.
- furfuraldehyde — a colorless, oily liquid, C 5 H 4 O 2 , having an aromatic odor, obtained from bran, sugar, wood, corncobs, or the like, by distillation: used chiefly in the manufacture of plastics and as a solvent in the refining of lubricating oils.
- fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
- futures market — a market in which futures contracts in commodities are traded.
- gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
- glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
- grapefruitlike — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.