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

  • dumdum fever — a chronic, usually fatal disease occurring in tropical areas of Asia and the Western Hemisphere, characterized by irregular fever, enlargement of the spleen, anemia, and emaciation, caused by the protozoan Leishmania donovani.
  • duty of care — the legal obligation to safeguard others from harm while they are in your care, using your services, or exposed to your activities
  • duty officer — In the police or armed forces, a duty officer is an officer who is on duty at a particular time.
  • dwarf laurel — a low North American shrub, Kalmia angustifolia, of the heath family, having oblong leaves poisonous to grazing animals.
  • effiguration — a detailed and elaborate description of something
  • effusiometer — an apparatus for determining rates of effusion of gases, usually used for measuring molecular weights
  • electro-funk — a type of electronic music, originating in the 1980s, characterized by the use of synthesizers with a heavy rhythm and punctuated bass, often influenced by the genres of funk and hip-hop
  • electrofluor — a transparent material that stores electrical energy and subsequently releases it as light
  • equisetiform — having the form of equisetum
  • false cirrus — a type of thick cirrus cloud spreading from the top of a cumulonimbus cloud
  • false colour — colour used in a computer or photographic display to help in interpreting the image, as in the use of red to show high temperatures and blue to show low temperatures in an infrared image converter
  • fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
  • farm produce — agricultural products regarded collectively
  • fast neutron — a neutron produced by nuclear fission that has lost little energy by collision; a neutron with a kinetic energy in excess of 0.1 MeV
  • fault-finder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
  • favouredness — the quality of or extent to which something is favoured
  • feature film — full-length movie
  • featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
  • feeler gauge — a person or thing that feels.
  • fenfluramine — a sympathomimetic substance, C 12 H 16 F 3 N, formerly used mainly as an anorectic in the treatment of obesity but withdrawn from the market in 1997 because of its potential to cause valvular heart disease.
  • fergus falls — a city in W central Minnesota.
  • ferrofluidic — Of or pertaining to a ferrofluid.
  • ferroniobium — An important alloy of iron and niobium.
  • ferulic acid — a compound, C 10 H 10 O 4 , found in small amounts in lants, that occurs in two isomers, one a yellow oily liquid and the other crystalline.
  • feuchtwanger — Lion [lee-awn] /ˈli ɔn/ (Show IPA), 1884–1958, German novelist and dramatist.
  • fiber bundle — a flexible bundle of optical glass that transmits images.
  • field circus — A derogatory pun on "field service". The field service organisation of any hardware manufacturer, but especially DEC. There is an entire genre of jokes about DEC field circus engineers: Q: How can you recognise a DEC field circus engineer with a flat tire? A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat. Q: How can you recognise a DEC field circus engineer who is out of gas? A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat. See Easter egging for additional insight on these jokes. There is also the "Field Circus Cheer" (from the plan file for DEC on MIT-AI): Maynard! Maynard! Don't mess with us! We're mean and we're tough! If you get us confused We'll screw up your stuff. (DEC's service HQ is located in Maynard, Massachusetts).
  • figuratively — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
  • figure eight — figure eight.
  • figure skate — a shoe skate used in figure skating, especially one having a blade shorter than that of a racing skate, usually not extending beyond the toe or heel, and with notches or sawteeth on the curved forward edge.
  • figure-skate — to take part in figure skating
  • figured bass — a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them indicating the chords to be played.
  • file request — 1. The FidoNet equivalent of FTP, in which one BBS system automatically dials another and snarfs one or more files. Often abbreviated "FReq"; files are often announced as being "available for FReq" in the same way that files are announced as being "available for/by anonymous FTP" on the Internet. 2. The act of getting a copy of a file by using the File Request option of the BBS mailer.
  • filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
  • filibusterer — A person who filibusters.
  • fillibusters — Plural form of fillibuster.
  • filthy lucre — money: to lose one's health for the sake of filthy lucre.
  • fire curtain — safety curtain.
  • fire support — support given by artillery and aircraft to infantry and armored vehicles.
  • firmer gouge — a narrow-bladed gouge similar in manner of use to a firmer chisel.
  • fish culture — the artificial propagation and breeding of fish.
  • five hundred — a variety of euchre in which a joker and widow are included, the object being to score 500 points first.
  • fixture list — a list of the games that a team is scheduled to play
  • flammiferous — flame-producing
  • flatterously — in a flatterous manner
  • flesh colour — of a yellowish-pink to yellowish-grey colour roughly that of the skin of a white person
  • fleur-de-lis — a heraldic device somewhat resembling three petals or floral segments of an iris tied by an encircling band.
  • fleur-de-lys — fleur-de-lis (defs 1, 2).
  • flickermouse — Alternative form of flittermouse.
  • flight nurse — a nurse in the U.S. Air Force who tends patients being transported by airplane.
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