13-letter words containing f, o, u, t
- on account of — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
- onto function — Mathematics. a function from one set to a second set, the range of which is the entire second set.
- open fracture — compound fracture.
- out of action — If someone or something is out of action, they are injured or damaged and cannot work or be used.
- out of bounds — Sports. being beyond or passing the limits or boundaries of a field, course, etc., marking the area within which the ball, puck, or the like is legally in play.
- out of breath — the air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
- out of danger — no longer at risk
- out of humour — in a bad mood
- out of kilter — If one thing is out of kilter with another, the first thing does not agree with or fit in with the second.
- out of office — (of a government) out of power
- out of pocket — small enough or suitable for carrying in the pocket: a pocket watch.
- out of season — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
- out of square — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- out-of-bounds — Sports. being beyond or passing the limits or boundaries of a field, course, etc., marking the area within which the ball, puck, or the like is legally in play.
- out-of-pocket — paid out in cash or from one's own financial resources and sometimes reimbursed: My out-of-pocket travel expenses included taking business clients to dinner.
- out-of-stater — a visitor from another state of the U.S.: Many out-of-staters come to our summer music festival.
- out-of-towner — a visitor from another town or city: The World's Fair brought many out-of-towners to New Orleans.
- out-performed — to surpass in excellence of performance; do better than: a new engine that outperforms the competition; a stock that outperformed all others.
- outdo oneself — to do something better than one ever did before or thought one could do
- outperformers — Plural form of outperformer.
- outperforming — Present participle of outperform.
- owl butterfly — any of several South American nymphalid butterflies of the genus Caligo, especially C. eurylochus, having a spot like an owl's eye on each hind wing.
- parquet floor — flooring made of inlaid wood
- passion fruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
- perfunctorily — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- petroliferous — containing or yielding petroleum
- 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.
- preformulated — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- profectitious — (of money or property) proceeding from a parent or derived from an ancestor
- put to flight — an act or instance of fleeing or running away; hasty departure.
- quadrifoliate — (botany) Having four leaves or leaflets.
- qualification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
- qualificatory — That serves as qualification.
- quartziferous — consisting of or containing quartz: quartziferous rock.
- 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.
- reptiliferous — (of rocks, etc) yielding fossilized reptiles
- reunification — the process of unifying or uniting; union: the unification of the 13 original colonies.
- rhesus factor — Rh factor.
- robert fulton — Robert, 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.
- rule of three — the method of finding the fourth term in a proportion when three terms are given.
- rule of thumb — a general or approximate principle, procedure, or rule based on experience or practice, as opposed to a specific, scientific calculation or estimate.
- russification — Russianize (defs 1, 2).
- rutherfordium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Rf; atomic number: 104.
- scout uniform — the uniform worn by the Scouts