9-letter words containing f, n, u
- confusion — If there is confusion about something, it is not clear what the true situation is, especially because people believe different things.
- confuting — Present participle of confute.
- confuzzle — (neologism, cute, childish) The state of confusion and/or being puzzled.
- cornflour — Cornflour is a fine white powder made from maize and is used to make sauces thicker.
- count for — to check over (the separate units or groups of a collection) one by one to determine the total number; add up; enumerate: He counted his tickets and found he had ten.
- count off — to separate into equal divisions by counting
- countrify — to make countrified.
- countryfy — Alternative spelling of countrify.
- crowdfund — To fund (a project) by having many individuals pool their money together, usually via the Internet.
- cuff link — one of a pair of linked buttons, used to join the buttonholes on the cuffs of a shirt
- cufflinks — one of a pair of linked ornamental buttons or buttonlike devices for fastening a shirt cuff.
- cuneiform — wedge-shaped
- cup final — the final of any cup competition
- cupferron — a salt ammonium compound (N-nitrosophenylhydroxylamine) used as a reagent in metal ion complexation
- dandruffy — Dandrufflike.
- dandyfunk — a type of dessert typically eaten at sea, consisting of a cake or biscuit baked in fat and molasses
- defluxion — anything that flows downwards
- defueling — combustible matter used to maintain fire, as coal, wood, oil, or gas, in order to create heat or power.
- defunding — Present participle of defund.
- designful — full of design or intention
- diffluent — tending to flow off or away.
- diffusing — Present participle of diffuse.
- diffusion — act of diffusing; state of being diffused.
- difluence — diffluence.
- disfluent — lacking fluency in speech
- dumbfound — to make speechless with amazement; astonish.
- dysfluent — Without proper fluency; not fluent.
- effluence — the action or process of flowing out; efflux.
- effluents — Plural form of effluent.
- effluxion — outward flow, as of water.
- effulgent — shining forth brilliantly; radiant.
- effusions — the act of effusing or pouring forth.
- enflurane — A volatile organic liquid used as a general anesthetic.
- engulfing — Present participle of engulf.
- epifaunal — relating to epifauna
- equifinal — That have the same outcome, end or result.
- eventfull — Archaic form of eventful.
- facundity — (archaic) eloquence; readiness of speech.
- fainaigue — British Dialect. to shirk; evade work or responsibility.
- fan vault — a vault composed of a number of concave conoidal surfaces, usually four, springing from the corners of the vaulting compartment and touching or intersecting at the top, often decorated with ribs.
- fancifull — Archaic form of fanciful.
- fantasque — a fantasy, a fancy
- far-flung — extending over a great distance.
- farm-toun — a farmhouse together with its outbuildings
- fatiguing — weariness from bodily or mental exertion.
- fatten up — To fatten up an animal or person means to make them fatter, by forcing or encouraging them to eat more food.
- faultline — the surface of a fault fracture along which the rocks have been displaced
- faunistic — of or relating to the geographical distribution of animal life.
- faux-naif — marked by a pretense of simplicity or innocence; disingenuous.
- fauxmance — a fake romance between two celebrities in order to gain press coverage