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13-letter words containing f, o, u, m

  • fractocumulus — low ragged slightly bulbous cloud, often appearing below nimbostratus clouds during rain
  • froude number — a dimensionless number used in hydrodynamics for model simulation of actual conditions
  • frumentaceous — of the nature of or resembling wheat or other grain.
  • frumentarious — of or relating to wheat or a similar grain
  • fuel air bomb — a type of bomb that spreads a cloud of gas, which is then detonated, over the target area, causing extensive destruction
  • full-bottomed — (of a wig) long at the back
  • fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
  • funambulation — the act of walking on a tightrope; funambulism
  • funambulatory — relating to tightrope-walking
  • function room — a room designated for official or formal social gatherings or ceremonies
  • functionalism — (usually initial capital letter) Chiefly Architecture, Furniture. a design movement evolved from several previous movements or schools in Europe in the early 20th century, advocating the design of buildings, furnishings, etc., as direct fulfillments of material requirements, as for shelter, repose, or the serving of food, with the construction, materials, and purpose clearly expressed or at least not denied, and with aesthetic effect derived chiefly from proportions and finish, purely decorative effects being excluded or greatly subordinated. the doctrines and practices associated with this movement. Compare rationalism (def 4).
  • funemployment — the condition of a person who enjoys being out of work
  • geminiflorous — having flowers arranged in pairs.
  • gemmuliferous — producing or reproducing by gemmules.
  • half mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  • half-mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  • homofullerene — (chemistry) Any of various compounds formally derived from a fullerene by the insertion of a methylene group between adjacent carbon atoms.
  • ichneumon fly — any of numerous wasplike insects of the family Ichneumonidae, the larvae of which are parasitic on caterpillars and immature stages of other insects.
  • if you ask me — You can say 'if you ask me' to emphasize that you are stating your personal opinion.
  • leg-of-mutton — having the triangular shape of a leg of mutton: leg-of-mutton sail; a dress with leg-of-mutton sleeves.
  • luminous flux — the rate of transmission of luminous energy: expressed in lumens.
  • lump of sugar — lump1 (def 4).
  • magnesiferous — (geology) Containing magnesium.
  • magnetiferous — (dated) Producing or conducting magnetism.
  • malfunctional — Not functioning as intended.
  • malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
  • mammaliferous — containing the remains of mammals
  • mandibuliform — Having the form of a mandible; - said especially of the maxill\u00e6 of an insect when hard and adapted for biting.
  • manganiferous — containing manganese.
  • manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
  • meadow fescue — a European fescue, Festuca pratensis, of the grass family, grown for pasture in North America.
  • mellifluously — sweetly or smoothly flowing; sweet-sounding: a mellifluous voice; mellifluous tones.
  • memo function — (programming)   (Or "memoised function") A function that remembers which arguments it has been called with and the result returned and, if called with the same arguments again, returns the result from its memory rather than recalculating it. Memo functions were invented by Professor Donald Michie of Edinburgh University. The idea was further developed by Robin Popplestone in his Pop2 language long before it was ever worked into LISP. This same principle is found at the hardware level in computer architectures which use a cache to store recently accessed memory locations. A Common Lisp package by Marty Hall <[email protected]> ftp://archive.cs.umbc.edu/pub/Memoization.
  • metafunctions — Plural form of metafunction.
  • metalliferous — containing or yielding metal.
  • misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
  • mother figure — a woman embodying or seeming to embody the qualities of an idealized conception of the female parent, eliciting from others the emotional responses that a child typically has toward its mother.
  • motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • multifactoral — Involving multiple factors.
  • multifunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
  • multiplatform — Compatible with or involving more than one type of computer or operating system.
  • mummification — to make (a dead body) into a mummy, as by embalming and drying.
  • mundification — the act of cleansing a wound
  • 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.
  • neurofibromas — Plural form of neurofibroma.
  • neurofilament — (anatomy) A neurofibril.
  • nonfulfilment — the event or act of a promise, threat, request, hope, duty, etc not happening
  • nonmeaningful — Not meaningful.
  • nonuniformity — (uncountable) The condition of being nonuniform.
  • not much of a — If you describe something as not much of a particular type of thing, you mean that it is small or of poor quality.
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