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14-letter words containing f, u, g

  • 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.
  • feng yu-hsiang — ("Christian General") 1880–1948, Chinese general.
  • fertility drug — a substance that enhances the ability to produce young.
  • field guidance — a method of guiding a missile to a point within a gravitational or radio field by means of the properties of the field
  • figurativeness — The property of being figurative.
  • figure skating — ice skating in which the skater traces intricate patterns on the ice.
  • figure-hugging — Figure-hugging clothes fit very close to the body of the person who is wearing them. Figure-hugging is usually used to describe clothes worn by women.
  • file signature — A magic number.
  • final judgment — judgment (def 8).
  • finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
  • first language — mother tongue
  • fishing ground — a part of a body of water where the fishing is usually good.
  • flagelliferous — bearing a flagellum
  • flagitiousness — The state or quality of being flagitious.
  • flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
  • floating cloud — Drifting Cloud, The.
  • fluid coupling — Machinery. an apparatus in which a fluid, usually oil, transmits torque from one shaft to another, producing an equal torque in the other shaft.
  • flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
  • flying dustbin — petard (def 3).
  • flying gurnard — any marine fish of the family Dactylopteridae, especially Dactylopterus volitans, having greatly enlarged, colorful pectoral fins that enable it to glide short distances through the air.
  • focusing cloth — an opaque cloth surrounding the ground glass of a camera so as to shield the eyes of the photographer from light that would otherwise prevent seeing the image in the ground glass.
  • follow through — the act of following.
  • follow-through — the completion of a motion, as in the stroke of a tennis racket.
  • food colouring — substances used to impart colour to food
  • foramen magnum — the large opening in the base of the skull forming the passage from the cranial cavity to the spinal canal.
  • forethoughtful — full of or having forethought; provident.
  • formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
  • fortunetelling — the act or practice of predicting the future.
  • forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
  • fountain grass — a perennial grass, Pennisetum setaceum, of Ethiopia, having bristly spikes, often rose-purple, grown as an ornamental.
  • fragrant sumac — a sprawling shrub, Rhus aromatica, of the cashew family, native to eastern North America, having aromatic foliage and greenish-yellow flowers in small spikes.
  • framing square — a steel square usually having on its faces various tables and scales useful to the carpenter.
  • francois guise — François de Lorraine [frahn-swa duh law-ren] /frɑ̃ˈswa də lɔˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), 2nd Duc de, 1519–63, French general and statesman.
  • fredericksburg — a city in NE Virginia, on the Rappahannock River: scene of a Confederate victory 1862.
  • french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
  • frozen pudding — a frozen or chilled dessert mixture of rich custard, nuts or candied fruit, and sometimes liquor.
  • frozen yoghurt — a dessert made from sweetened yoghurt that has been frozen
  • full as a goog — drunk
  • fungible issue — a bond issued by a company on the same terms as a bond previously issued by that company, although the redemption yield will probably be different
  • funnily enough — You use funnily enough to indicate that, although something is surprising, it is true or really happened.
  • gamma function — a function defined by Γ(x) = ∫0∞tx–1e–tdt, where x is real and greater than zero
  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • gene frequency — the frequency of occurrence of a particular allele in a population
  • get funny with — to be impudent to
  • giant puffball — a puffball, Calvatia gigantea, that is the largest of its kind, known to have grown to more than 5 feet (1.6 meters) in circumference.
  • gibbs function — the thermodynamic function of a system that is equal to its enthalpy minus the product of its absolute temperture and entropy: a decrease in the function is equal to the maximum amount of work available exclusive of that due to pressure times volume change during a reversible, isothermal, isobaric process.
  • give it up for — If an audience is asked to give it up for a performer, they are being asked to applaud.
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • gouldian finch — a multicoloured finch, Chloebia gouldiae, of tropical N Australia
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