14-letter words containing f, r, e, u
- copper sulfate — a blue, crystalline substance, CuSO4·5H2O, that effloresces and turns white when heated; blue vitriol: used in making pigments, germicides, batteries, etc.
- counterfactual — expressing what has not happened but could, would, or might under differing conditions
- counterfeiters — Plural form of counterfeiter.
- counterfeiting — the making of fraudulent copies; forgery
- coup de foudre — a sudden and amazing action or event
- cruft together — (jargon) To hack together though with the suggestion that the result may be cruft.
- crutched friar — a member of a mendicant order, suppressed in 1656
- culture factor — culture as a causative agent, especially in contrast to biological factors.
- cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
- dead sea fruit — something that appears to be beautiful or full of promise but is in reality nothing but illusion and disappointment.
- debt of honour — a debt that is morally but not legally binding, such as one contracted in gambling
- deputy sheriff — a person that is authorized to act as sheriff in certain circumstances
- diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
- diamondiferous — containing or yielding diamonds for mining.
- diffuse-porous — having annual rings in which the size of pores is approximately the same in wood formed in spring and summer.
- disfigurements — Plural form of disfigurement.
- disfurnishment — the act or quality of disfurnishing
- disregardfully — In a disregardful manner; negligently; heedlessly.
- do-it-yourself — of or designed for construction or use by amateurs without special training: a do-it-yourself kit for building a radio.
- door furniture — locks, handles, etc, designed for use on doors
- double feature — a motion-picture program consisting of two films shown one after the other for the price of a single ticket.
- drag your feet — dawdle
- duarte fuentes — José Napoleón [haw-se nah-paw-le-awn] /hɔˈsɛ nɑ pɔ lɛˈɔn/ (Show IPA), 1926–90, Salvadoran political leader: president 1980–82, 1984–89.
- dutch reformed — of or relating to a Protestant denomination (Dutch Reformed Church) founded by Dutch settlers in New York in 1628 and renamed the Reformed Church in America in 1867.
- duty-free shop — airport: untaxed goods store
- dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
- earl of surrey — Earl of (Henry Howard) 1517?–47, English poet.
- eigenfrequency — One of the natural resonant frequencies of a system.
- emergency fund — a sum of money set aside by a country, group, or organization for use in an emergency
- engine failure — failure to operate by the engine of an aircraft, car, or other vehicle
- evergreen fund — a fund that provides capital for new companies and makes regular injections of capital to support their development
- extraforaneous — (nonce, archaic) outdoor.
- facinorousness — the quality of being facinorous
- factory outlet — a store that sells factory-made goods directly to consumers for less than current retail prices.
- fairy bluebird — any fruit-eating passerine bird of the genus Irena, of the East Indies, the males of the several species being characteristically black below and purple-blue above.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- fancy geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium domesticum, of southern Africa, having roundish clusters of large white, pink, or red flowers.
- fanum fortunae — ancient name of Fano.
- farey sequence — the increasing sequence of fractions in which numerator and denominator have no common divisor other than one and in which the denominator is less than or equal to a given positive integer p. For p = 4, the Farey sequence of order 4 is 0/1, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 1/1.
- farmhouse loaf — a large white loaf, baked in a tin, with slightly curved sides and top
- fault tolerant — fault tolerance
- fault-tolerant — designed to return to a safe condition in the event of a failure or malfunction
- favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
- feather duster — a brush for dusting, made of a bundle of large feathers attached to a short handle.
- feature editor — a newspaper or magazine journalist who commissions and edits feature articles
- feature writer — a newspaper or magazine journalist who writes feature articles
- feature-length — long enough to be made a feature; of full length: a feature-length story; a feature-length film.
- feeding ground — The feeding ground of a group of animals or birds, is the place where they find food and eat.
- ferrozirconium — a ferroalloy containing up to 40 percent zirconium.
- fertility cult — a religious cult devoted to the enhancement of the fertility of persons, plants, or animals, by means of rituals often associated with a particular deity.