14-letter words containing f, l, u, o, r
- follow-through — the completion of a motion, as in the stroke of a tennis racket.
- follow-up care — care provided for a patient after medical or surgical treatment
- food colouring — substances used to impart colour to food
- forethoughtful — full of or having forethought; provident.
- forklift truck — vehicle for lifting heavy loads
- formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
- fortune-teller — a person who claims the ability to predict the future.
- fortunetelling — the act or practice of predicting the future.
- fourfold block — a block having four pulleys or sheaves. Compare block (def 11).
- fourth of july — Independence Day.
- french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
- frenet formula — one of a set of formulas for finding the curvature and torsion of a plane or space curve in terms of vectors tangent or normal to the curve.
- fruit cocktail — an assortment of fruits cut into sections or pieces and served in a cup or a glass as an appetizer or dessert.
- full professor — professor (def 1).
- full-flavoured — Full-flavoured food or wine has a pleasant fairly strong taste.
- funeral parlor — A funeral parlor is the same as a funeral home.
- gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
- glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
- gulf of anadyr — an inlet of the Bering Sea, off the coast of NE Russia
- gulf of mannar — the part of the Indian Ocean between SE India and the island of Sri Lanka: pearl fishing
- hero's formula — the formula for the area of a triangle when the sides are given: for a triangle with sides a, b, and c, the area is equal to , where s is equal to one half the perimeter of the triangle.
- hold your fire — If someone holds their fire or holds fire, they stop shooting or they wait before they start shooting.
- house of lords — the nonelective, upper house of the British Parliament, comprising the lords spiritual and lords temporal.
- hydrosulfurous — hyposulfurous.
- ill-suited for — unsuitable for something
- infopreneurial — of or relating to the manufacture or sales of electronic office or factory equipment designed to distribute information
- kekulé formula — the structural formula of benzene represented as a hexagonal ring with alternate single and double bonds between the carbon atoms.
- labour of love — If you do something as a labour of love, you do it because you really want to and not because of any reward you might get for it, even though it involves hard work.
- long-suffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
- marvel-of-peru — the four-o'clock, Mirabilis jalapa.
- methoxyflurane — a potent substance, C 3 H 4 Cl 2 F 2 O, used as an analgesic in minor surgical procedures and less frequently as a general anesthetic.
- 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.
- molecular film — a film or layer one molecule thick.
- multifactorial — having or stemming from a number of different causes or influences: Some medical researchers regard cancer as a multifactorial disease.
- multifariously — In a multifarious manner.
- newfoundlander — a native or inhabitant of Newfoundland.
- non-fraudulent — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
- nonfluorescent — possessing the property of fluorescence; exhibiting fluorescence.
- nuclear fusion — fusion (def 4).
- occluded front — a composite front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front and forces it aloft.
- olfactory bulb — the enlarged terminal part of each olfactory lobe from which the olfactory nerve originates.
- oral-formulaic — noting or pertaining to poetry of an earlier spoken tradition, as the Iliad, that uses formulas to aid its continued expression.
- out of control — wild, unrestrained
- over-fulfilled — to carry out, or bring to realization, as a prophecy or promise.
- over-influence — the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others: He used family influence to get the contract.
- poultry farmer — a person who rears domestic fowls, esp chickens, for their eggs or meat
- preformulation — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- public officer — a person appointed or elected to a governmental post.
- purposefulness — having a purpose.
- quality factor — a property of ionizing radiations that affects their ability to cause biological effects. For weakly ionizing radiations such as gamma rays it has value 1 whilst for alpha rays it is about 20