14-letter words containing f, i, g, u
- flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
- floating cloud — Drifting Cloud, The.
- fluid coupling — Machinery. an apparatus in which a fluid, usually oil, transmits torque from one shaft to another, producing an equal torque in the other shaft.
- flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
- flying dustbin — petard (def 3).
- flying gurnard — any marine fish of the family Dactylopteridae, especially Dactylopterus volitans, having greatly enlarged, colorful pectoral fins that enable it to glide short distances through the air.
- focusing cloth — an opaque cloth surrounding the ground glass of a camera so as to shield the eyes of the photographer from light that would otherwise prevent seeing the image in the ground glass.
- food colouring — substances used to impart colour to food
- formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
- fortunetelling — the act or practice of predicting the future.
- forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
- fountain grass — a perennial grass, Pennisetum setaceum, of Ethiopia, having bristly spikes, often rose-purple, grown as an ornamental.
- 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.
- fredericksburg — a city in NE Virginia, on the Rappahannock River: scene of a Confederate victory 1862.
- frozen pudding — a frozen or chilled dessert mixture of rich custard, nuts or candied fruit, and sometimes liquor.
- fungible issue — a bond issued by a company on the same terms as a bond previously issued by that company, although the redemption yield will probably be different
- funnily enough — You use funnily enough to indicate that, although something is surprising, it is true or really happened.
- gamma function — a function defined by Γ(x) = ∫0∞tx–1e–tdt, where x is real and greater than zero
- gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
- get funny with — to be impudent to
- giant puffball — a puffball, Calvatia gigantea, that is the largest of its kind, known to have grown to more than 5 feet (1.6 meters) in circumference.
- gibbs function — the thermodynamic function of a system that is equal to its enthalpy minus the product of its absolute temperture and entropy: a decrease in the function is equal to the maximum amount of work available exclusive of that due to pressure times volume change during a reversible, isothermal, isobaric process.
- give it up for — If an audience is asked to give it up for a performer, they are being asked to applaud.
- glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
- gouldian finch — a multicoloured finch, Chloebia gouldiae, of tropical N Australia
- grapefruitlike — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
- group of eight — the Group of Seven nations and Russia, whose heads of government meet to discuss economic matters and international relations
- gulf of guinea — a large inlet of the S Atlantic on the W coast of Africa, extending from Cape Palmas, Liberia, to Cape Lopez, Gabon: contains two large bays, the Bight of Bonny and the Bight of Benin, separated by the Niger delta
- gulf of mexico — a republic in S North America. 761,530 sq. mi. (1,972,363 sq. km). . Capital: Mexico City.
- gulf of tonkin — an arm of the South China Sea, bordered by N Vietnam, the Leizhou Peninsula of SW China, and Hainan Island. Length: about 500 km (300 miles)
- high frequency — the range of frequencies in the radio spectrum between 3 and 30 megahertz.
- huffman coding — (algorithm) A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
- insightfulness — The state or condition of being insightful.
- lifestyle guru — a person hired to give someone advice on various aspects of his or her life, work, and relationships
- light the fuse — If someone or something lights the fuse of a particular situation or activity, they suddenly get it started.
- lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
- long-suffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
- lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
- malfunctioning — failure to function properly: a malfunction of the liver; the malfunction of a rocket.
- meaningfulness — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
- miniature golf — a game or amusement modeled on golf and played with a putter and golf ball, in which each very short, grassless “hole” constitutes an obstacle course, consisting of wooden alleys, tunnels, bridges, etc., through which the ball must be driven to hole it.
- mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- nonfunctioning — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- on firm ground — in a safe situation
- outing flannel — a light cotton flannel with a short, dense nap.
- revolving fund — any loan fund intended to be maintained by the repayment of past loans.
- route flapping — flapping router
- sanguification — hematopoiesis.
- saxifragaceous — belonging to the plant family Saxifragaceae.