13-letter words containing f, i, t, u
- fusible metal — any of various alloys, as of bismuth, lead, and tin, that melt at temperatures as low as 160°F (70°C), making them useful in various safety devices.
- futilitarians — Plural form of futilitarian.
- futurity race — a race for two-year-old horses in which the entries are selected before birth
- futurological — Pertaining to futurology.
- garnetiferous — containing or yielding garnets.
- gefullte fish — dish of fish stuffed with various ingredients
- genuflections — Plural form of genuflection.
- gravity fault — a fault along an inclined plane in which the upper side or hanging wall appears to have moved downward with respect to the lower side or footwall (opposed to reverse fault).
- hash function — (programming) A hash coding function which assigns a data item distinguished by some "key" into one of a number of possible "hash buckets" in a hash table. The hash function is usually combined with another more precise function. For example a program might take a string of letters and put it in one of twenty six lists depending on its first letter. Ideally, a hash function should distribute items evenly between the buckets to reduce the number of hash collisions. If, for example, the strings were names beginning with "Mr.", "Miss" or "Mrs." then taking the first letter would be a very poor hash function because all names would hash the same.
- heart failure — a condition in which the heart fatally ceases to function.
- hunting knife — a large, sharp knife, usually with a handle shaped to fit a firm grip and a blade with a slight curve toward the tip, that is used to skin and cut up game, or sometimes to dispatch it.
- hunting rifle — shotgun used to kill game
- hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
- ichthyofaunal — relating to ichthyofauna
- immunifacient — causing immunity
- impactfulness — The quality of being impactful.
- in default of — If something happens in default of something else, it happens because that other thing does not happen or proves to be impossible.
- in difficulty — If you are in difficulty or in difficulties, you are having a lot of problems.
- index futures — a form of financial futures based on projected movement of a share price index, such as the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Share Index
- ineffectually — not effectual; without satisfactory or decisive effect: an ineffectual remedy.
- influentially — having or exerting influence, especially great influence: three influential educators.
- infostructure — The technical infrastructure supporting an information system.
- infructuously — in an infructuous or unfruitful manner; fruitlessly
- infundibulate — Shaped like a funnel; infundibulated or infundibular.
- infuriatingly — causing or tending to cause anger or outrage; maddening: His delay is infuriating.
- inns of court — (in England) the four private unincorporated societies in London that function as a law school and have the exclusive privilege of calling candidates to the English bar
- inquire after — to seek information by questioning; ask: to inquire about a person.
- interfunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- isle of youth — Isle of, an island in the Caribbean, a special municipality in S Cuba. 1182 sq. mi. (3060 sq. km).
- justification — a reason, fact, circumstance, or explanation that justifies or defends: His insulting you was ample justification for you to leave the party.
- justificative — Justificatory.
- justificatory — serving to justify; providing justification.
- lighter fluid — a combustible fluid used in cigarette, cigar, and pipe lighters.
- liquefacients — Plural form of liquefacient.
- liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
- liquification — Alternative form of liquefaction.
- loft building — a building of several floors with large areas of unobstructed space, originally rented out for light industrial purposes and now frequently converted to residential occupancy.
- long fin tuna — a tunny, Thunnus alalunga, occurring mainly in warm regions of the Atlantic and Pacific. It has very long pectoral fins and is a valued food fish
- loss function — (in decision theory) a function that expresses the loss incurred when a decision is made in terms of various factors.
- lucifer match — friction match.
- magnetic flux — the total magnetic induction crossing a surface, equal to the integral of the component of magnetic induction perpendicular to the surface over the surface: usually measured in webers or maxwells.
- magnetiferous — (dated) Producing or conducting magnetism.
- malfunctional — Not functioning as intended.
- malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- manufacturing — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- match-funding — the stipulation set by a grant-providing body that the recipients of a grant raise a certain percentage of the money they require, generally a sum more or less equal to that of the sum of money being granted
- memo function — (programming) (Or "memoised function") A function that remembers which arguments it has been called with and the result returned and, if called with the same arguments again, returns the result from its memory rather than recalculating it. Memo functions were invented by Professor Donald Michie of Edinburgh University. The idea was further developed by Robin Popplestone in his Pop2 language long before it was ever worked into LISP. This same principle is found at the hardware level in computer architectures which use a cache to store recently accessed memory locations. A Common Lisp package by Marty Hall <[email protected]> ftp://archive.cs.umbc.edu/pub/Memoization.
- metabisulfite — (inorganic chemistry) The oxyanion of sulfur S2O52- or any salt containing this ion.
- metafunctions — Plural form of metafunction.