11-letter words containing f, o, u, r
- counterfact — a conditional statement the first clause of which expresses something contrary to fact, as “If I had known.”.
- counterfect — counterfeit
- counterfeit — Counterfeit money, goods, or documents are not genuine, but have been made to look exactly like genuine ones in order to deceive people.
- counterfire — fire that is intended to destroy enemy weapons
- counterflow — the flowing of two fluids in opposite directions in adjacent parts of an apparatus
- counterfoil — A counterfoil is the part of a cheque, ticket, or other document that you keep when you give the other part to someone else.
- counterfort — a strengthening buttress at right angles to a retaining wall, bonded to it to prevent overturning or to increase its bending strength
- countrified — You use countrified to describe something that seems or looks like something in the country, rather than in a town.
- countryfied — countrified
- countryfolk — people living or raised in the country; rustics.
- county fair — a competitive exhibition of farm products, livestock, etc., often held annually in the same place in the county.
- county farm — a farm maintained for the poor by a county.
- course fees — the fees paid for the tuition on an educational course
- courtesy of — without charge, as a gesture of goodwill
- craft union — a labour organization membership of which is restricted to workers in a specified trade or craft
- crossruffed — Simple past tense and past participle of crossruff.
- crowdfunded — Simple past tense and past participle of crowdfund.
- cruciferous — of, relating to, or belonging to the plant family Cruciferae
- crucifixion — Crucifixion is a way of killing people which was common in the Roman Empire, in which they were tied or nailed to a cross and left to die.
- cry out for — If you say that something cries out for a particular thing or action, you mean that it needs that thing or action very much.
- culmiferous — (of grasses) having a hollow jointed stem
- cupriferous — (of a substance such as an ore) containing or yielding copper
- curry favor — to try to win favor by flattery, fawning, etc.
- disfavoured — Simple past tense and past participle of disfavour.
- disfavourer — one who does not favour
- do duty for — to act as a substitute for
- dorsiferous — borne on the back, as the sori on most ferns.
- douglas fir — a coniferous tree, Pseudotsuga menziesii, of western North America, often more than 200 feet (60 meters) high, having reddish-brown bark, flattened needles, and narrow, light-brown cones, and yielding a strong, durable timber: the state tree of Oregon.
- drag out of — to obtain or extract (a confession, statement, etc), esp by force
- drum out of — to expel from (the army) with drums beating
- effortfully — In an effortful manner: with effort.
- ego surfing — the act of searching for your own name on the internet
- enfouldered — charged with lightning
- facinerious — (in the works of Shakespeare) extremely wicked
- fair enough — that is reasonable
- fairgrounds — Alternative spelling of fairground; the grounds where a fair is held.
- family hour — any broadcast period from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. when programs of general interest to the family are broadcast.
- farinaceous — consisting or made of flour or meal, as food.
- farnborough — a town in S England, in NE Hampshire: military base, with an aeronautical research centre. Pop: 57 147 (2001)
- farraginous — heterogeneous; mixed: a farraginous collection of random ideas.
- fart around — a flatus expelled through the anus.
- fatty tumor — lipoma.
- fauxbourdon — Music. a 15th-century compositional technique employing three voices, the upper and lower voices progressing an octave or a sixth apart while the middle voice extemporaneously doubles the upper part at a fourth below.
- favouritism — (British) The unfair favouring of one person or group at the expense of another.
- febriferous — producing fever.
- feedthrough — a connector used to pass a conductor through a circuit board or enclosure.
- fergusonite — a rare-earth mineral, yttrium columbate and tantalate, found in pegmatites.
- ferociously — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
- ferriferous — producing or yielding iron: ferriferous rock.
- ferrocerium — an alloy of 65 percent misch metal and 35 percent iron, used in flints for cigarette lighters.