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12-letter words containing f, e, t, u

  • fault-finder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
  • 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.
  • feeding tube — nasogastric tubing
  • felicitously — In a felicitous manner.
  • 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 eight — figure eight.
  • 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
  • file request — 1. The FidoNet equivalent of FTP, in which one BBS system automatically dials another and snarfs one or more files. Often abbreviated "FReq"; files are often announced as being "available for FReq" in the same way that files are announced as being "available for/by anonymous FTP" on the Internet. 2. The act of getting a copy of a file by using the File Request option of the BBS mailer.
  • filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
  • filibusterer — A person who filibusters.
  • fillibusters — Plural form of fillibuster.
  • filthy lucre — money: to lose one's health for the sake of filthy lucre.
  • fipple flute — a recorder or other flutelike instrument equipped with a fipple.
  • fire curtain — safety curtain.
  • fire support — support given by artillery and aircraft to infantry and armored vehicles.
  • fish culture — the artificial propagation and breeding of fish.
  • fixture list — a list of the games that a team is scheduled to play
  • flannelmouth — a person whose speech is thick, slow, or halting.
  • flatterously — in a flatterous manner
  • flight nurse — a nurse in the U.S. Air Force who tends patients being transported by airplane.
  • flittermouse — bat2 (def 1).
  • floriculture — the cultivation of flowers or flowering plants, especially for ornamental purposes.
  • flour beetle — any of several brown darkling beetles, especially of the genus Tribolium, that infest, breed in, feed on, and often pollute flour, stored grain, and other stored produce.
  • flour sifter — a container in which flour is sifted
  • flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
  • fluid assets — assets that are in the form of cash or easily convertible into cash
  • 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.
  • fluorescents — Plural form of fluorescent.
  • fluorimeters — Plural form of fluorimeter.
  • fluorimetric — Alternative form of fluorometric.
  • fluorometers — Plural form of fluorometer.
  • fluorometric — Of, pertaining to, or measured using fluorometry.
  • fluosilicate — a salt of fluosilicic acid.
  • flusteration — (colloquial, dated) The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered.
  • flutter kick — a swimming kick in which the legs make rapid alternate up-and-down movements while the knees remain rigid, as in the crawl.
  • flutter mill — a flutter wheel, especially a small one designed as a child's plaything.
  • flutterballs — Plural form of flutterball.
  • flutterboard — a kickboard.
  • flux density — the magnetic, radiant, or electric flux per unit of cross-sectional area.
  • food counter — a counter in a shop, bar, cafeteria, etc where food is sold or served
  • forequarters — the forward end of half of a carcass, as of beef or lamb.
  • foresightful — care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
  • forethoughts — Plural form of forethought.
  • fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
  • foul-mouthed — using obscene, profane, or scurrilous language; given to filthy or abusive speech.
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