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

  • crop failure — a failure of crops to yield sufficient food, etc, to maintain a community or to provide a surplus to sell
  • crowdfunding — Crowdfunding is when a large number of people each give an amount of money to pay for a project, especially by using a website to collect the money.
  • crucifiction — Misspelling of crucifixion.
  • crucifixions — Plural form of crucifixion.
  • cruciformity — being in the shape of a cross; cross-shaped.
  • cuneiformist — a person who studies or deciphers cuneiform writing.
  • cupuliferous — of or relating to the Cupuliferae family of trees which includes oak, hazel, chestnut, etc
  • curvifoliate — having leaves curved or bent back
  • cut a figure — to attract attention
  • cybersurfing — The practice of using and browsing the Internet, especially as a habitual pastime.
  • dandrufflike — Resembling or characteristic of dandruff.
  • de profundis — out of the depths of misery or dejection
  • defraudation — (obsolete) The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud.
  • dehumidifier — A dehumidifier is a machine that is used to reduce the amount of moisture in the air.
  • desulfurized — Simple past tense and past participle of desulfurize.
  • dibenzofuran — an organic compound (C12H8O) composed of two benzene rings fused to a central furan ring
  • discomfiture — Archaic. defeat in battle; rout.
  • disgracefull — Archaic form of disgraceful.
  • disqualifier — One who, or that which, disqualifies.
  • disregardful — neglectful; careless.
  • doloriferous — causing pain or sadness, dolorific
  • double drift — a method of calculating wind direction and velocity by observing the direction of drift of an aircraft on two or more headings.
  • double first — a first in two subjects.
  • duty officer — In the police or armed forces, a duty officer is an officer who is on duty at a particular time.
  • effiguration — a detailed and elaborate description of something
  • effusiometer — an apparatus for determining rates of effusion of gases, usually used for measuring molecular weights
  • equisetiform — having the form of equisetum
  • facial scrub — a beauty product or treatment which cleanses and exfoliates the skin of the face
  • fair housing — the sale and rental of private housing free of discriminatory practices or policies.
  • false cirrus — a type of thick cirrus cloud spreading from the top of a cumulonimbus cloud
  • family court — court of domestic relations.
  • fascicularly — in a fascicular manner
  • fault-finder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
  • feature film — full-length movie
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • fiber bundle — a flexible bundle of optical glass that transmits images.
  • fibrous root — a root, as in most grasses, having numerous, very fine branches of approximately the same length.
  • 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).
  • fifty-fourth — next after the fifty-third; being the ordinal number for 54.
  • figurability — the quality of being figurable
  • 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.
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