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15-letter words containing f, n, u

  • go up in flames — be burned
  • guard of honour — A guard of honour is an official parade of troops, usually to celebrate or honour a special occasion, such as the visit of a head of state.
  • guest of honour — If you say that someone is the guest of honour at a dinner or other social occasion, you mean that they are the most important guest.
  • gulf of bothnia — an arm of the Baltic Sea, extending north between Sweden and Finland
  • gulf of corinth — an inlet of the Ionian Sea between the Peloponnese and central Greece
  • gulf of finland — an arm of the Baltic Sea between Finland, Estonia, and Russia
  • gulf of fonseca — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in W Central America
  • gulf of taranto — an inlet of the Ionian Sea, in Apulia in SE Italy
  • gunnery officer — an officer in charge of heavy guns
  • half-round file — a file having a semicircular cross-section
  • half-understood — partially understood
  • han unification — Han character
  • have no use for — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
  • heterofullerene — (chemistry) Any compound formally derived from a fullerene by replacing one or more carbon atom by a heteroatom.
  • holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
  • hopeful monster — a hypothetical individual organism that, by means of a fortuitous macromutation permitting an adaptive shift to a new mode of life, becomes the founder of a new type of organism and a vehicle of macroevolution.
  • housewifization — The process by which the division of labor has relegated women into housewives.
  • housing benefit — In Britain, housing benefit is money that the government gives to people with no income or very low incomes to pay for part or all of their rent.
  • hull efficiency — the ratio of the quantity of work required to tow a certain hull at a given speed to that required to drive it with a certain propeller: used in propeller design.
  • humidifications — Plural form of humidification.
  • hundred flowers — the 1957 political campaign in the People's Republic of China to encourage greater freedom of intellectual expression, initiated by Mao Zedong under the slogan “Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.”.
  • hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
  • hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • immunodeficient — Exhibiting immunodeficiency.
  • immunodiffusion — any of various analytical techniques that involve antigen and antibody solutions diffusing toward each other in a gel until antibody binds specifically to antigen to form a precipitate.
  • in (the) future — You use in future when saying what will happen from now on, which will be different from what has previously happened. The form in the future is sometimes used instead, especially in American English.
  • in difficulties — in distress, esp. financially
  • in line of duty — in the performance of authorized or prescribed military duty
  • inch of mercury — a unit of atmospheric pressure, being the pressure equal to that exerted by a column of mercury one inch high under standard conditions of temperature and gravity: 33.864 millibars. Abbreviation: in. Hg.
  • ineffectualness — Inefficacy.
  • inefficaciously — Without efficacy or effect.
  • inertial fusion — a type of nuclear fusion in which the inertia of matter enables it to fuse by impact, as by pulses of laser radiation or high-energy charged particles, rather than by high temperature
  • infraclavicular — (anatomy) Below the clavicle.
  • infrastructural — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
  • infrastructures — Plural form of infrastructure.
  • infundibuliform — having the shape of a funnel; funnel-shaped.
  • insight-fulness — characterized by or displaying insight; perceptive.
  • insufficiencies — Plural form of insufficiency.
  • interfascicular — pertaining to or forming a fascicle; fasciculate.
  • interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
  • intrafascicular — between the xylem and phloem elements of a vascular bundle
  • irish wolfhound — one of an Irish breed of large, tall dogs having a rough, wiry coat ranging in color from white to brindle to black.
  • john of austria — ("Don John") 1547?–78, Spanish naval commander and general: victor at the battle of Lepanto.
  • joint favourite — one of two or more competitors in a race or contest that are considered equally likely to win
  • justifiableness — Justifiability.
  • lake-of-lucerne — a canton in central Switzerland. 576 sq. mi. (1490 sq. km).
  • langue de boeuf — ox-tongue partisan.
  • latent function — any function of an institution or other social phenomenon that is unintentional and often unrecognized.
  • lay oneself out — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
  • left outer join — outer join
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