11-letter words containing f, u, c, s
- house finch — a small common finch, Carpodacus mexicanus, originally of the western U.S. and Mexico and now widely distributed: the males have a red forehead, throat, breast, and rump.
- house-craft — skill in domestic management
- increaseful — full of increase; fertile; fruitful
- influencers — Plural form of influencer.
- infructuose — Not yielding fruit.
- infructuous — (Pakistan and India only; of a project etc) not fruitful.
- inofficious — being inconsistent with moral duty and natural affection.
- insectifuge — a substance or preparation for driving off insects.
- janus-faced — having two faces, one looking forward, one looking backward, as the Roman deity Janus.
- lactiferous — producing or secreting milk: lactiferous glands.
- lactifluous — full or flowing with milk
- microfungus — A fungus in which no sexual process has been observed or in which the reproductive organs are microscopic.
- misfunction — malfunction.
- multifocals — multifocal spectacles
- obfuscating — Present participle of obfuscate.
- obfuscation — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- obfuscatory — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- obfusticate — Synonym of obfuscate.
- officiously — objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome: an officious person.
- offscouring — Often, offscourings. something scoured off; filth; refuse.
- out of sync — out of synchronization (with)
- persulfuric — denoting a type of acid
- pousse-cafe — an after-dinner drink of liqueurs of various colors and specific gravities, carefully poured into a glass so as to remain floating in separate layers.
- prime focus — the focal point of the objective lens or primary mirror of a telescope
- researchful — (of a book, academic paper etc) full of research, containing or built upon a great deal of research
- resourceful — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.
- sacculiform — (of plant parts, etc) shaped like a small sac
- scarf cloud — pileus (def 3).
- schaffhouse — a town in N Switzerland, capital of Schaffhausen canton, on the Rhine. Pop: 33 628 (2000)
- school fund — the money provided by a government or raised by parents and teachers to finance the running of a school
- schweinfurt — a city in N Bavaria, in S central Germany, on the Main River.
- scottsbluff — a city in W Nebraska, on the North Platte River.
- scruffiness — the state of being unkempt or shabby
- scuff marks — marks made by scuffing
- scuffle hoe — a hoe with a flat blade, pushed back and forth through the surface soil, as to weed
- self-caused — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- self-excuse — to regard or judge with forgiveness or indulgence; pardon or forgive; overlook (a fault, error, etc.): Excuse his bad manners.
- semifluidic — of the nature of a semifluid; partially fluidic
- snuff stick — a twig, stick, or brush used to apply snuff on the teeth or gums.
- so much for — So much for is used to indicate that you have finished talking about a subject.
- social fund — (in Britain) a social security fund from which loans or payments may be made to people in cases of extreme need
- soft launch — the launch of a website in stages, with regular updating
- sub-fascial — a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.
- sub-surface — below the surface, especially of a body of water.
- subclassify — to arrange in subclasses.
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- subspecific — of, relating to, or of the nature of a subspecies.
- sucket fork — a utensil for sweetmeats of the 16th, 17th, and early 18th centuries, having fork tines at one end and a spoon bowl at the other end of a common stem.
- sufficiency — the state or fact of being sufficient; adequacy.
- suffocation — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.