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

  • containerful — As much as a container can hold.
  • coral fungus — any of a group of brightly colored fungi having erect, branching fruiting bodies that resemble coral.
  • corticofugal — (of a nerve fiber) originating in and running from the cerebral cortex.
  • cosurfactant — a surfactant that acts in addition to another surfactant, further reducing the surface tension of a liquid
  • counter-fact — a conditional statement the first clause of which expresses something contrary to fact, as “If I had known.”.
  • countershaft — an intermediate shaft that is driven by, but rotates in the opposite direction to, a main shaft, esp in a gear train
  • court of law — When you refer to a court of law, you are referring to a legal court, especially when talking about the evidence that might be given in a trial.
  • crop failure — a failure of crops to yield sufficient food, etc, to maintain a community or to provide a surplus to sell
  • currant loaf — a loaf-shaped fruit cake containing currants
  • curry favour — to ingratiate oneself, esp with superiors
  • curvifoliate — having leaves curved or bent back
  • cut a figure — to attract attention
  • dame fortune — the personification of fortune as a woman
  • dandrufflike — Resembling or characteristic of dandruff.
  • defraudation — (obsolete) The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud.
  • dibenzofuran — an organic compound (C12H8O) composed of two benzene rings fused to a central furan ring
  • disgracefull — Archaic form of disgraceful.
  • disqualifier — One who, or that which, disqualifies.
  • disregardful — neglectful; careless.
  • draughtproof — That prevents the access of draughts.
  • 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
  • facial scrub — a beauty product or treatment which cleanses and exfoliates the skin of the face
  • factor group — quotient group.
  • fair housing — the sale and rental of private housing free of discriminatory practices or policies.
  • fall through — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
  • 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
  • family court — court of domestic relations.
  • fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
  • farm produce — agricultural products regarded collectively
  • fascicularly — in a fascicular manner
  • 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.
  • figurability — the quality of being figurable
  • 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.
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