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