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15-letter words containing f, u, g

  • accounting file — (operating system)   A file which holds records of the resources used by individual jobs. These records are used to regulate, and calculate charges for, resources. An entry is opened in the accounting file as each job begins.
  • age of aquarius — an astrological era believed to bring increased spirituality and harmony on earth.
  • alan f. shugart — (person)   The man who founded Shugart Associates and later co-founded Seagate Technology. Alan Shugart left Shugart Associates in 1974 [did he quit or was he fired?] and took a break from the disk-drive business. In 1979, he and Finis Conner founded a new company that at first was called Shugart Technology and later Seagate Technology.
  • ballpark figure — approximate number
  • biting housefly — a two-winged fly, Stomoxys calcitrans, having the mouthparts adapted for biting, and commonly a household and stable pest.
  • bug fix release — (programming)   A release which introduces no new features, but which merely aims to fix bugs in previous releases. All too commonly new bugs are introduced at the same time.
  • butter-fingered — a person who frequently drops things; clumsy person.
  • butterfly wedge — a wooden fastening in the form of a double dovetail for joining two boards at their edges.
  • california gull — a large gull, Larus californicus, of the western U.S.
  • carl xvi gustaf — born 1946, king of Sweden from 1973
  • centrifugal box — a revolving chamber, used in the spinning of manufactured filaments, in which the plastic fibers, subjected to centrifugal force, are slightly twisted and emerge in the form of yarn wound into the shape of a hollow cylinder.
  • champagne flute — a tall, thin champagne glass
  • change of venue — the removal of a trial out of one jurisdiction into another
  • channel surfing — to change from one channel on a television set to another with great or unusual frequency, especially by using a remote control.
  • channel-surfing — Channel-surfing is the same as channel-hopping.
  • chewings fescue — a hardy, fine-leaved variety of fescue, Festuca rubra commutata, grown in the U.S. and New Zealand as a lawn grass.
  • coffee granules — instant coffee in the form of grains
  • combat fatigues — the uniform worn by soldiers when fighting
  • configurability — The property of being configurable.
  • configurational — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
  • counterflashing — (construction) Formed metal or elastomeric sheeting secured on or into a wall, curb, pipe or other surface, to cover and protect the upper edge of a base flashing and its associated fasteners.
  • creeping fescue — red fescue.
  • customer-facing — interacting or communicating directly with customers
  • day of judgment — Judgment Day
  • degree of curve — a continuously bending line, without angles.
  • disgracefulness — The state or quality of being disgraceful.
  • draughtproofing — Present participle of draughtproof.
  • drug trafficker — someone that trades in illegal drugs
  • embalming fluid — a liquid used to treat a dead body, which contains preservatives to retard putrefaction
  • family grouping — a system, used usually in the infant school, of grouping children of various ages together, esp for project work
  • feeding grounds — the place where animals gather to find food
  • female suffrage — woman suffrage.
  • figurate number — a number having the property that the same number of equally spaced dots can be arranged in the shape of a regular geometrical figure.
  • figure of eight — figure eight.
  • figure of merit — a measure of the efficiency of a helicopter in hover
  • finishing touch — a final additional or detail that completes and perfects something
  • fishing harbour — a place where fishing boats are tied up
  • flag lieutenant — an admiral's ADC
  • flange coupling — a driving coupling between rotating shafts that consists of flanges (or half couplings) one of which is fixed at the end of each shaft, the two flanges being bolted together with a ring of bolts to complete the drive
  • flapping router — (networking)   A router that transmits routing updates alternately advertising a destination network first via one route, then via a different route. Flapping routers are identified on more advanced protocol analysers such as the Network General (TM) Sniffer.
  • fleming's rules — two rules used as mnemonics for the relationship between the directions of current flow, motion, and magnetic field in electromagnetic induction. The hand is held with the thumb, first, and second fingers at right angles, respectively indicating the directions of motion, field, and electric current. The left hand is used for electric motors and the right hand for dynamos
  • floating supply — the aggregate supply of ready-to-market goods or securities.
  • flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
  • fluorine dating — a method of determining the relative age of fossil bones found in the same excavation by comparing their fluorine content.
  • flying buttress — a segmental arch transmitting an outward and downward thrust to a solid buttress that through its inertia transforms the thrust into a vertical one.
  • flying dutchman — a legendary Dutch ghost ship supposed to be seen at sea, especially near the Cape of Good Hope.
  • flying squirrel — any of various nocturnal tree squirrels, as Glaucomys volans, of the eastern U.S., having folds of skin connecting the fore and hind legs, permitting long, gliding leaps.
  • focusing screen — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
  • football ground — an area of land where football games are played
  • football league — highest-level soccer competition

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