8-letter words containing f, u, c
- fanciful — characterized by or showing fancy; capricious or whimsical in appearance: a fanciful design of butterflies and flowers.
- farceurs — Plural form of farceur.
- farceuse — a woman skilled in farce.
- farouche — fierce.
- fascinum — An ivory phallus used in certain ancient erotic rites.
- fast-cut — to go abruptly from one brief scene to another.
- faucaria — any succulent plant of the genus Faucaria, comprising several species native to southern Africa and having solitary yellow or white flowers.
- fauchard — a shafted weapon having a knifelike blade with a convex cutting edge and a beak on the back for catching the blade of an aggressor's weapon.
- feculent — full of dregs or fecal matter; foul, turbid, or muddy.
- feluccas — Plural form of felucca.
- fescuing — Present participle of fescue.
- fetch up — to go and bring back; return with; get: to go up a hill to fetch a pail of water.
- fictious — (obsolete) Fictitious.
- fiducial — accepted as a fixed basis of reference or comparison: a fiducial point; a fiducial temperature.
- fine-cut — cut into very thin strips (contrasted with rough-cut): fine-cut tobacco.
- floccule — something resembling a small flock or tuft of wool.
- floscule — a floret; a single blossom of a composite flower
- flounced — Simple past tense and past participle of flounce.
- flounces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flounce.
- fluerics — fluidics.
- fluidics — the technology dealing with the use of a flowing liquid or gas in various devices, especially controls, to perform functions usually performed by an electric current in electronic devices.
- focusing — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- focussed — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- focusses — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- forceful — full of force; powerful; vigorous; effective: a forceful plea for peace.
- foucault — Jean Bernard Léon [zhahn ber-nar ley-awn] /ʒɑ̃ bɛrˈnar leɪˈɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1819–68, French physicist.
- foucquet — Jean or Jehan [both French zhahn] /both French ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), c1420–c80, French painter.
- fourchee — a type of heraldic cross
- fracture — the breaking of a bone, cartilage, or the like, or the resulting condition. Compare comminuted fracture, complete fracture, compound fracture, greenstick fracture, simple fracture.
- francium — a radioactive element of the alkali metal group. Symbol: Fr; atomic number: 87.
- frounced — Simple past tense and past participle of frounce.
- fructify — to bear fruit; become fruitful: With careful tending the plant will fructify.
- fructive — fruitful
- fructose — Chemistry, Pharmacology. a yellowish to white, crystalline, water-soluble, levorotatory ketose sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , sweeter than sucrose, occurring in invert sugar, honey, and a great many fruits: used in foodstuffs and in medicine chiefly in solution as an intravenous nutrient.
- fuchsias — Plural form of fuchsia.
- fuchsine — A dye (rosaniline hydrochloride or similar) usually a deep red or magenta colour.
- fuchsins — Plural form of fuchsin.
- fuchsite — a bright green variety of muscovite having chromium in place of some of the aluminum.
- fuck all — Fuck all is used to mean 'nothing at all'.
- fuck off — to have sexual intercourse with.
- fuck-off — to have sexual intercourse with.
- fuckhead — a stupid or obnoxious person.
- fuculose — (carbohydrate) A deoxysugar related to tagatose.
- fudgicle — An ice-cream (on a stick) flavoured with fudge.
- fuel-can — A derogatory term for the Atari Falcon.
- fugacity — fleeting; transitory: a sensational story with but a fugacious claim on the public's attention.
- fulcrate — having or supported by fulcra
- fulcrums — Plural form of fulcrum.
- fulgency — the quality of being fulgent; resplendence; brightness
- full-cut — (of a brilliant) cut with 58 facets, including the table and culet.