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14-letter words containing f, n, u

  • 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.
  • gene frequency — the frequency of occurrence of a particular allele in a population
  • 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.
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • gouldian finch — a multicoloured finch, Chloebia gouldiae, of tropical N Australia
  • group of seven — G7.
  • guarantee form — a document that spells out the terms of a legally binding guarantee
  • guard of honor — a guard specially designated for welcoming or escorting distinguished guests or for accompanying a casket in a military funeral.
  • guest of honor — a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.
  • gulf of anadyr — an inlet of the Bering Sea, off the coast of NE Russia
  • 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 mannar — the part of the Indian Ocean between SE India and the island of Sri Lanka: pearl fishing
  • gulf of panama — a wide inlet of the Pacific in Panama
  • 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)
  • half-conscious — aware of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
  • heat of fusion — the heat absorbed by a unit mass of a given solid at its melting point that completely converts the solid to a liquid at the same temperature: equal to the heat of solidification.
  • high frequency — the range of frequencies in the radio spectrum between 3 and 30 megahertz.
  • honours of war — the honours granted by the victorious to the defeated, esp as of marching out with all arms and flags flying
  • 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.
  • humidification — to make humid.
  • in actual fact — You use in fact, in actual fact, or in point of fact to indicate that you are giving more detailed information about what you have just said.
  • in full career — at full speed
  • in lieu of sth — If you do, get, or give one thing in lieu of another, you do, get, or give it instead of the other thing, because the two things are considered to have the same value or importance.
  • in sb's favour — If someone makes a judgment in your favour, they say that you are right about something.
  • in/out of step — If people who are walking or dancing are in step, they are moving their feet forward at exactly the same time as each other. If they are out of step, their feet are moving forward at different times.
  • in/out of time — If you are playing, singing, or dancing in time with a piece of music, you are following the rhythm and speed of the music correctly. If you are out of time with it, you are not following the rhythm and speed of the music correctly.
  • indian buffalo — a member of the cattle tribe, Bubalus bubalis, of swampy regions of S Asia, having widely spreading back-curving horns. Domesticated forms are used as draught animals
  • ineffectuality — not effectual; without satisfactory or decisive effect: an ineffectual remedy.
  • infectiousness — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.
  • infelicitously — In a way that is infelicitous or unfortunate.
  • inference rule — (logic)   A procedure which combines known facts to produce ("infer") new facts. For example, given that 1. Socrates is a man and that 2. all men are motal, we can infer that Socrates is mortal. This uses the rule known as "modus ponens" which can be written in Boolean algebra as (A & A => B) => B (if proposition A is true, and A implies B, then B is true). Or given that, 1. Either Denis is programming or Denis is sad and 2. Denis is not sad, we can infer that Denis is programming. This rule can be written ((A OR B) & not B) => A (If either A is true or B is true (or both), and B is false, then A must be true). Compare syllogism.
  • inferior court — a court of limited jurisdiction
  • infopreneurial — of or relating to the manufacture or sales of electronic office or factory equipment designed to distribute information
  • infrastructure — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
  • infundibulated — Funnel-shaped.
  • injury benefit — money paid to someone who has sustained an injury
  • inquiry office — an office or department of a business, organization, etc, which deals with inquiries or requests for information
  • insightfulness — The state or condition of being insightful.
  • insufficiently — not sufficient; lacking in what is necessary or required: an insufficient answer.
  • interdiffusion — mutual diffusion of fluids
  • interinfluence — to influence reciprocally or mutually
  • intestinal flu — influenza with abdominal symptoms, as diarrhea or vomiting.
  • juan fernandez — a group of three islands in the S Pacific, 400 miles (645 km) W of and belonging to Chile: Alexander Selkirk, the alleged prototype of Robinson Crusoe, was marooned here 1704.
  • jungle warfare — the specialized techniques required by the military to survive and fight in jungle terrain
  • junior officer — an officer who is not in overall command of a military unit
  • justifications — Plural form of justification.
  • kentucky fried — Southern-fried (def 1).
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