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12-letter words containing f, o, u, r

  • formal cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
  • former pupil — someone who used to attend a particular school or be a student of a particular teacher
  • formula milk — An artificial substitute for breast milk intended for feeding infants. It can come in powdered form to be mixed with water or in instant liquid form.
  • formula unit — (of an ionic compound that does not form molecules, as most salts) the chemical formula with the least number of elements out of the set of empirical formulas having the same proportion of ions as elements: NaCl is the formula unit for the ionic compound sodium chloride.
  • formularized — Simple past tense and past participle of formularize.
  • formularizer — One who formularizes.
  • formularizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formularize.
  • formulations — Plural form of formulation.
  • formyl group — the univalent group HCO–, derived from formic acid.
  • fort pulaski — Count Casimir [kaz-uh-meer] /ˈkæz əˌmɪər/ (Show IPA), 1748–79, Polish patriot; general in the American Revolutionary army.
  • fortran-plus — Fortran for the DAP parallel machine, implements many Fortran 90 features.
  • fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
  • fortuitously — In a fortuitous manner.
  • forty-fourth — next after the forty-third; being the ordinal number for 44.
  • forward push — A forward push is a feature of distillation columns (= tall vessels for distillation) in which zones that allow higher contact between substances are near the top of the column.
  • fosbury flop — a modern high-jumping technique whereby the jumper clears the bar headfirst and backwards
  • foundationer — a person supported by funds from a foundation, or serving as a member of a foundation
  • foundry sand — silica-based sand mixed with clay, oil, etc, to improve its cohesive strength, used in moulding
  • foundry type — type cast in individual characters for setting by hand.
  • four hundred — the exclusive social set of a city or area.
  • four old cat — three old cat played with four batters.
  • four-by-four — a four-wheeled automotive vehicle having four-wheel drive.
  • four-channel — Audio. quadraphonic.
  • four-corners — a point in the SW U.S., at the intersection of 37° N latitude and 109° W longitude, where the boundaries of four states—Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico—meet: the only such point in the U.S.
  • four-engined — (of an aircraft) having four engines
  • four-flusher — a person who makes false or pretentious claims; bluffer.
  • four-in-hand — a long necktie to be tied in a slipknot with the ends left hanging.
  • four-o'clock — a common garden plant, Mirabilis jalapa, of the four-o'clock family, having tubular red, white, yellow, or variegated flowers that open late in the afternoon.
  • four-striper — a captain in the U.S. Navy.
  • four-walling — a form of distribution and exhibition, esp. of films, in which a distributor or producer rents a theater for a fixed amount, pays all advertising and operating costs, and collects all box-office receipts
  • four-wheeler — a four-wheel vehicle, especially a hackney carriage.
  • fourdriniers — Plural form of fourdrinier.
  • fourfoldness — the quality of consisting of four parts
  • fourses cake — a traditional English bread made with lard, dried fruit, and spices
  • fourteenthly — in (the) fourteenth place
  • fourth grade — school year: age 9-10
  • fourth world — the world's most poverty-stricken nations, especially in Africa and Asia, marked by very low GNP per capita and great dependence upon foreign economic aid.
  • fourth-class — of, relating to, or designated as a class next below third, as for mailing, shipping, etc.
  • fox squirrel — any of several North American arboreal squirrels varying in color and of an exceptionally large size.
  • fracastorius — a walled plain in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 60 miles (97 km) in diameter.
  • free thought — thought unrestrained by deference to authority, tradition, or established belief, especially in matters of religion.
  • french union — a former association of France and its overseas territories, colonies, and protectorates as constituted in 1946: superseded by the French Community in 1958.
  • fresh out of — having just run out of supplies of
  • friction rub — the sound, heard through a stethoscope, made by the rubbing together of the two inflamed layers of pericardium in patients with pericarditis or of pleura in patients with pleurisy
  • friend-court — amicus curiae.
  • fringe group — a group that is on the periphery of a larger organization because its views are more extreme than the majority
  • frondiferous — Producing fronds.
  • front burner — Informal. a condition or position of top priority: Put the project on the front burner and finish it as soon as possible.
  • front runner — a person who leads in any competition.
  • front-runner — In a competition or contest, the front-runner is the person who seems most likely to win it.
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