14-letter words containing f, n, u
- cosi fan tutte — a comic opera (1790) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- council bluffs — city in SW Iowa, across the Missouri River from Omaha, Nebr.: pop. 58,000
- council of ten — the governing council of Venice from 1310 until its overthrow in 1797, composed originally of 10 and later 17 members.
- council of war — A council of war is a meeting that is held in order to decide how a particular threat or emergency should be dealt with.
- counterfactual — expressing what has not happened but could, would, or might under differing conditions
- counterfeiters — Plural form of counterfeiter.
- counterfeiting — the making of fraudulent copies; forgery
- court of honor — the planning body of a girl-scout troop, composed of patrol leaders, the troop scribe, the troop treasurer, and the adult troop leader.
- cult following — the admiration that is felt by a particular group for a film, book, band, etc
- cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
- de-icing fluid — a liquid that removes or discourages the formation of ice
- debt of honour — a debt that is morally but not legally binding, such as one contracted in gambling
- default option — the preset selection of an option offered by a system, which will always be followed except when explicitly altered
- deflocculation — to reduce from a flocculent state by dispersing the flocculated particles.
- delightfulness — The state or quality of being delightful.
- delta function — a generalized function having the value 0 except at 0, the value infinity at 0, and an integral from minus infinity to plus infinity of 1, used in thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.
- despitefulness — The state or quality of being despiteful.
- diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
- diamondiferous — containing or yielding diamonds for mining.
- diffuse nebula — nebula (def 1a).
- diffusion line — a range of clothes made by a top fashion designer for a high-street retailer
- disdainfulness — The state or quality of being disdainful.
- disfigurements — Plural form of disfigurement.
- disfurnishment — the act or quality of disfurnishing
- disgustfulness — the quality of being disgustful
- do one's stuff — If you do your stuff, you perform an activity in the way that people expect.
- do the needful — to perform a necessary task
- door furniture — locks, handles, etc, designed for use on doors
- drifting cloud — Japanese Uki Gumo. a novel (1887–89) by Shimei Futabatei.
- drilling fluid — a fluid used in the process of drilling bore holes and oil wells, for instance drilling mud, water, and compressed air amongst others
- dry rot fungus — a fungus, Merulius lacrymans, that causes a common type of dry rot.
- duarte fuentes — José Napoleón [haw-se nah-paw-le-awn] /hɔˈsɛ nɑ pɔ lɛˈɔn/ (Show IPA), 1926–90, Salvadoran political leader: president 1980–82, 1984–89.
- dumbfoundingly — In a dumbfounding manner.
- dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
- eigenfrequency — One of the natural resonant frequencies of a system.
- emergency fund — a sum of money set aside by a country, group, or organization for use in an emergency
- emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
- enfant sauvage — a person given to naive, undisciplined, or unpredictable behaviour, largely because of youth and inexperience
- engine failure — failure to operate by the engine of an aircraft, car, or other vehicle
- english muffin — crumpet
- evergreen fund — a fund that provides capital for new companies and makes regular injections of capital to support their development
- excuse oneself — to ask that one's fault be overlooked; apologize
- extraforaneous — (nonce, archaic) outdoor.
- f distribution — a continuous distribution obtained from the ratio of two chi-square distributions and used esp to test the equality of the variances of two normally distributed variances
- facinorousness — the quality of being facinorous
- factitiousness — The quality of being factitious.
- faculty lounge — a staffroom
- fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
- fallopian tube — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
- fancy geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium domesticum, of southern Africa, having roundish clusters of large white, pink, or red flowers.