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13-letter words containing f, o, r, t, u, n

  • funambulatory — relating to tightrope-walking
  • function room — a room designated for official or formal social gatherings or ceremonies
  • function word — a word, as a preposition, article, auxiliary, or pronoun, that chiefly expresses grammatical relationships, has little semantic content of its own, and belongs to a small, closed class of words whose membership is relatively fixed (distinguished from content word).
  • functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
  • garnetiferous — containing or yielding garnets.
  • ground effect — the improvement to the aerodynamic qualities of a low-slung motor vehicle resulting from a cushion of air beneath it
  • hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
  • infostructure — The technical infrastructure supporting an information system.
  • infructuously — in an infructuous or unfruitful manner; fruitlessly
  • inns of court — (in England) the four private unincorporated societies in London that function as a law school and have the exclusive privilege of calling candidates to the English bar
  • interfunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
  • law of nature — an empirical truth of great generality, conceived of as a physical (but not a logical) necessity, and consequently licensing counterfactual conditionals
  • magnetiferous — (dated) Producing or conducting magnetism.
  • manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
  • motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • munroe effect — the reinforcement of shock waves in the concave, hollow end of a shaped charge, producing a greater resultant wave and concentrating the explosion along the axis of the charge.
  • nectariferous — producing nectar.
  • neuroeffector — The junction site, where a motor neuron releases a neurotransmitter to affect a target, that acts like an effector.
  • neurofilament — (anatomy) A neurofibril.
  • ninety-fourth — next after the ninety-third; being the ordinal number for 94.
  • noncolourfast — (of a fabric) having a colour that tends to fade when washed or worn
  • nonfigurative — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
  • nonforfeiture — Lack of forfeiture; failure to forfeit, or exemption from forfeiting.
  • nonfraudulent — Not fraudulent.
  • nonuniformity — (uncountable) The condition of being nonuniform.
  • open fracture — compound fracture.
  • out of danger — no longer at risk
  • out-of-towner — a visitor from another town or city: The World's Fair brought many out-of-towners to New Orleans.
  • outperforming — Present participle of outperform.
  • passion fruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
  • perfunctorily — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • platiniferous — platinum-bearing
  • popular front — a coalition, usually temporary, of leftist and sometimes centrist political parties, formed against a common opponent, as fascism, and promoting social reform.
  • post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
  • prefiguration — the act of prefiguring.
  • prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • rann of kutch — an extensive salt waste in W central India, and S Pakistan: consists of the Great Rann in the north and the Little Rann in the southeast; seasonal alternation between marsh and desert; some saltworks. In 1968 an international tribunal awarded about 10 per cent of the border area to Pakistan. Area: 23 000 sq km (9000 sq miles)
  • reformulation — to formulate again.
  • reunification — the process of unifying or uniting; union: the unification of the 13 original colonies.
  • robert fultonRobert, 1765–1815, U.S. engineer and inventor: builder of the first profitable steamboat.
  • root of unity — a complex number that when raised to some positive integral power results in 1.
  • russification — Russianize (defs 1, 2).
  • scout uniform — the uniform worn by the Scouts
  • small fortune — a large sum of money
  • soft currency — econ: fluctuating value
  • south african — of southern Africa.
  • southern fish — the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
  • staminiferous — bearing or having a stamen or stamens.
  • stoloniferous — producing or bearing stolons.
  • superfetation — the fertilization of an ovum in a female mammal already pregnant.
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