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

  • foramen magnum — the large opening in the base of the skull forming the passage from the cranial cavity to the spinal canal.
  • foraminiferous — Having small openings, or foramina.
  • forethoughtful — full of or having forethought; provident.
  • forklift truck — vehicle for lifting heavy loads
  • formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
  • fortuitousness — The quality of being fortuitous.
  • fortune cookie — a thin folded wafer containing a prediction or maxim printed on a slip of paper: often served as a dessert in Chinese restaurants.
  • fortune hunter — a person who hopes to prosper, especially through marriage to someone of wealth.
  • fortune-hunter — a person who hopes to prosper, especially through marriage to someone of wealth.
  • fortune-teller — a person who claims the ability to predict the future.
  • fortunetelling — the act or practice of predicting the future.
  • forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
  • founder effect — the accumulation of random genetic changes in an isolated population as a result of its proliferation from only a few parent colonizers.
  • founder member — A founder member of a club, group, or organization is one of the first members, often one who was involved in setting it up.
  • founder's type — special type cast by a type founder for hand composition, as opposed to type cast in a mechanical composing machine
  • fountain grass — a perennial grass, Pennisetum setaceum, of Ethiopia, having bristly spikes, often rose-purple, grown as an ornamental.
  • four of a kind — a set of four cards of the same denominations.
  • four-eyed fish — a small, surface-swimming fish, Anableps anableps, inhabiting shallow, muddy streams of Mexico and Central America, having each eye divided, with the upper half adapted for seeing in air and the lower half for seeing in water.
  • four-four time — a form of simple quadruple time in which there are four crotchets to the bar, indicated by the time signature 44
  • fourfold block — a block having four pulleys or sheaves. Compare block (def 11).
  • fourier series — an infinite series that involves linear combinations of sines and cosines and approximates a given function on a specified domain.
  • fourth of july — Independence Day.
  • fraise du bois — a wild strawberry.
  • francois guise — François de Lorraine [frahn-swa duh law-ren] /frɑ̃ˈswa də lɔˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), 2nd Duc de, 1519–63, French general and statesman.
  • french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
  • frenet formula — one of a set of formulas for finding the curvature and torsion of a plane or space curve in terms of vectors tangent or normal to the curve.
  • fresh out (of) — having just sold or used up the last one or part (of)
  • front of house — restaurant
  • front side bus — (hardware)   (FSB) The bus via which a processor communicates with its RAM and chipset; one half of the Dual Independent Bus (the other half being the backside bus). The L2 cache is usually on the FSB, unless it is on the same chip as the processor [example?]. In PCI systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed. Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two main ways of overclocking processors.
  • frozen account — A frozen account is a bank account that cannot have money withdrawn from it, because of a court order.
  • frozen custard — a smooth-textured, soft, frozen-food product of whole milk, and sometimes cream, egg yolk, etc., sweetened and variously flavored, often served in an ice-cream cone.
  • frozen pudding — a frozen or chilled dessert mixture of rich custard, nuts or candied fruit, and sometimes liquor.
  • frozen yoghurt — a dessert made from sweetened yoghurt that has been frozen
  • fructification — act of fructifying; the fruiting of a plant, fungus, etc.
  • fruit cocktail — an assortment of fruits cut into sections or pieces and served in a cup or a glass as an appetizer or dessert.
  • full professor — professor (def 1).
  • full-flavoured — Full-flavoured food or wine has a pleasant fairly strong taste.
  • function creep — the gradual widening of the use of a technology or system beyond the purpose for which it was originally intended, esp when this leads to potential invasion of privacy
  • funeral parlor — A funeral parlor is the same as a funeral home.
  • fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
  • futtock shroud — any of several metal rods secured at their lower ends to a futtock band and at their upper ends to a futtock plate, connecting the lower mast to the topmast rigging.
  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • give it up for — If an audience is asked to give it up for a performer, they are being asked to applaud.
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • group of eight — the Group of Seven nations and Russia, whose heads of government meet to discuss economic matters and international relations
  • group of seven — G7.
  • group of three — Japan, US, and Germany (formerly West Germany), regarded as the largest industrialized nations
  • guarantee form — a document that spells out the terms of a legally binding guarantee
  • guard of honor — a guard specially designated for welcoming or escorting distinguished guests or for accompanying a casket in a military funeral.
  • guest of honor — a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.
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