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16-letter words containing f, a, r, u, c

  • fish or cut bait — any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
  • flame cultivator — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
  • flat-track bully — a sportsperson who dominates inferior opposition, but who cannot beat top-level opponents
  • fluorescent lamp — a tubular electric discharge lamp in which light is produced by the fluorescence of phosphors coating the inside of the tube.
  • focused strategy — a business strategy in which an organization divests itself of all but its core activities, using the funds raised to enhance the distinctive abilities that give it an advantage over its rivals
  • follicular phase — a stage of the menstrual cycle, from onset of menstruation to ovulation.
  • for a good cause — If you say that something is for a good cause, you mean that it is worth doing or giving to because it will help other people, for example by raising money for charity.
  • forbush decrease — the sudden decrease in the intensity of cosmic rays after an increase in solar activity.
  • four-course meal — A four-course meal is a meal that consists of four parts served one after the other.
  • four-leaf clover — a clover leaf having four leaflets instead of the usual three, purported to bring good luck.
  • franchise clause — a clause stipulating that the insured will be responsible for any loss not in excess of a stated amount, and the insurance company will be liable for full payment of the loss equaling or exceeding the amount up to the insured amount.
  • francis of paula — Saint, 1416–1507, Italian monk: founder of the order of Minims.
  • frankfurt school — a school of thought, founded at the University of Frankfurt in 1923 by Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse and others, derived from Marxist, Freudian, and Hegelian theory
  • functional group — a group of atoms responsible for the characteristic behavior of the class of compounds in which the group occurs, as the hydroxyl group in alcohols.
  • functional water — water containing additives that provide extra nutritional value
  • funeral director — a person, usually a licensed embalmer, who supervises or conducts the preparation of the dead for burial and directs or arranges funerals.
  • general factotum — a person who does all sorts of jobs; general assistant
  • geoffrey chaucer — Geoffrey, 1340?–1400, English poet.
  • grace-and-favour — (of a house, flat, etc) owned by the sovereign and granted free of rent to a person to whom the sovereign wishes to express gratitude
  • grapefruit juice — nectar of the grapefruit
  • la rochefoucauld — François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 6th Duc de, 1613–80, French moralist and composer of epigrams and maxims.
  • louisiana french — French as spoken in Louisiana; Cajun. Abbreviation: LaF.
  • luck of the draw — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
  • manufactured gas — a gaseous fuel created from coal, oil, etc., as differentiated from natural gas.
  • marsh cinquefoil — a variety of cinquefoil, Potentilla palustris, that grows in marshy areas
  • matter of course — an event or result that is natural or inevitable
  • matter-of-course — occurring or proceeding in or as if in the logical, natural, or customary course of things; expected or inevitable.
  • mexican fruitfly — a brightly colored fly, Anastrepha ludens, whose larvae are a serious pest chiefly of citrus fruits and mangoes in Mexico, Central America, and southern Texas.
  • miraculous fruit — miracle fruit.
  • misconfiguration — An incorrect or inappropriate configuration.
  • mossbauer effect — the phenomenon in which an atom in a crystal undergoes no recoil when emitting a gamma ray, giving all the emitted energy to the gamma ray, resulting in a sharply defined wavelength.
  • multiple factors — polygene.
  • no-fault divorce — a divorce granted without anyone being found guilty of marital misconduct
  • non-manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • nonmanufacturing — (economics) Outside of the manufacturing sector.
  • nuclear transfer — the procedure used to produce the first cloned mammals, in which the nucleus of a somatic cell is transferred into an egg cell whose own nucleus has been removed. This cell is then stimulated by an electric shock to divide and form an embryo
  • oak leaf cluster — a U.S. military decoration in the form of a small bronze twig bearing four oak leaves and three acorns, worn on the ribbon of another decoration for valor, wounds, or distinguished service to signify a second award of the same medal.
  • out of character — the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing.
  • pacific sturgeon — a dark gray sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus, inhabiting marine and fresh waters along the northwestern coast of North America, valued as a food and sport fish.
  • partial function — A function which is not defined for all arguments of its input type. E.g. f(x) = 1/x if x /= 0. The opposite of a total function. In denotational semantics, a partial function f : D -> C may be represented as a total function ft : D' -> lift(C) where D' is a superset of D and ft x = f x if x in D ft x = bottom otherwise where lift(C) = C U bottom. Bottom (LaTeX \perp) denotes "undefined".
  • perforated ulcer — an ulcer that bursts through the stomach wall and leaks food and gastric juices into the abdominal cavity
  • persulfuric acid — Also called Caro's acid, permonosulfuric acid, peroxymonosulfuric acid, peroxysulfuric acid. a white, crystalline solid, H 2 SO 5 , used as an oxidizing agent for certain organic compounds.
  • puddling-furnace — the act of a person or thing that puddles.
  • radius of action — the maximum distance that a ship, aircraft, or land vehicle can travel from its base and return without refuelling
  • right about face — Military. a command, given to a soldier or soldiers at attention, to turn the body about toward the right so as to face in the opposite direction. the act of so turning in a prescribed military manner.
  • safeguard clause — a clause in a contract, etc, that ensures the protection of something against problems, etc
  • self-exculpatory — intended to excuse oneself from blame or guilt
  • self-lubricating — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
  • self-lubrication — the process of becoming lubricated without external factors
  • smelting furnace — an industrial oven used to heat ore in order to extract metal
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