9-letter words containing f, n, u
- favouring — Present participle of favour.
- featuring — a prominent or conspicuous part or characteristic: Tall buildings were a new feature on the skyline.
- feculence — full of dregs or fecal matter; foul, turbid, or muddy.
- feculency — an impurity
- fecundate — to make prolific or fruitful.
- fecundity — the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
- felonious — Law. pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a felony: felonious homicide; felonious intent.
- feng shui — Feng shui is a Chinese art which is based on the belief that the way you arrange things within a building, and within the rooms of that building, can affect aspects of your life such as how happy and successful you are.
- fenugreek — a plant, Trigonella foenum-graecum, of the legume family, indigenous to western Asia, but extensively cultivated elsewhere, chiefly for forage and for its mucilaginous seeds, which are used in medicine.
- ferruling — a ring or cap, usually of metal, put around the end of a post, cane, or the like, to prevent splitting.
- festucine — (obsolete) Of a straw colour; greenish-yellow.
- fettucine — Misspelling of fettuccine.
- feuillant — a member of a club formed in 1791 by Lafayette advocating a limited constitutional monarchy: forced to disband in 1792 as the revolution became more violent and antimonarchical
- fibrinous — the insoluble protein end product of blood coagulation, formed from fibrinogen by the action of thrombin in the presence of calcium ions.
- field gun — a gun specially designed for service in direct support of front-line troops
- figurante — a ballerina who does not perform solo.
- figurants — Plural form of figurant.
- figure in — a numerical symbol, especially an Arabic numeral.
- figure on — a numerical symbol, especially an Arabic numeral.
- figurines — Plural form of figurine.
- final cut — the final edited version of a film, approved by the director and producer.
- fine tune — to tune (a radio or television receiver) to produce the optimum reception for the desired station or channel by adjusting a control knob or bar.
- fine-tune — to tune (a radio or television receiver) to produce the optimum reception for the desired station or channel by adjusting a control knob or bar.
- finetuned — to tune (a radio or television receiver) to produce the optimum reception for the desired station or channel by adjusting a control knob or bar.
- finish up — complete
- first run — the initial exhibition period for a film.
- first-run — designating or of:
- fishpound — a submerged net used in commercial fishing for capturing fish.
- fissuring — Present participle of fissure.
- flame gun — a type of flame-thrower for destroying garden weeds
- flaminius — Gaius [gey-uh s] /ˈgeɪ əs/ (Show IPA), died 217 b.c, Roman statesman and general who was defeated by Hannibal.
- flash gun — a device that simultaneously discharges a flashbulb and operates a camera shutter.
- flashguns — Plural form of flashgun.
- flatulent — generating gas in the alimentary canal, as food.
- flauntier — Comparative form of flaunty.
- flaunting — Present participle of flaunt.
- flensburg — a port in N Germany, in Schleswig-Holstein: taken from Denmark by Prussia in 1864; voted to remain German in 1920. Pop: 85 300 (2003 est)
- florulent — (obsolete) Flowery; blossoming.
- flouncing — a strip of material gathered or pleated and attached at one edge, with the other edge left loose or hanging: used for trimming, as on the edge of a skirt or sleeve or on a curtain, slipcover, etc.
- flounders — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flounder.
- flour bin — a small container for flour
- fluctuant — fluctuating; varying; unstable.
- flugelman — fugleman.
- fluidness — a substance, as a liquid or gas, that is capable of flowing and that changes its shape at a steady rate when acted upon by a force tending to change its shape.
- fluminous — Pertaining to a river or rivers; flowing, fluent.
- flunk out — to fail in a course or examination.
- flunkyism — The quality or characteristics of a flunky; readiness to cringe to those who are superior in wealth or position; toadyism.
- flurrying — a light, brief shower of snow.
- flushness — a fresh growth, as of shoots and leaves.
- fluxional — an act of flowing; a flow or flux.