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16-letter words containing f, u, g

  • amending formula — a specified process or procedure by which a constitution may be amended
  • audience figures — the number of people regularly watching a television programme or listening to a radio programme
  • authority figure — a person whose real or apparent authority over others inspires or demands obedience and emulation: Parents, teachers, and police officers are traditional authority figures for children.
  • beef bourguignon — boeuf bourguignon
  • beefsteak fungus — an edible reddish bracket fungus, Fistulina hepatica, that grows esp on oak trees and oozes a bloodlike juice
  • boeuf bourgignon — casserole of beef, vegetables, herbs, etc, cooked in red wine
  • brussels griffon — one of a Belgian breed of toy dogs having a thick, wiry, reddish-brown coat.
  • burgundy trefoil — alfalfa.
  • burnet saxifrage — a Eurasian umbelliferous plant of the genus Pimpinella, having umbrella-like clusters of white or pink flowers
  • centrifugal pump — a pump having a high-speed rotating impeller whose blades throw the water outwards
  • church suffering — the souls in purgatory.
  • configurationism — Gestalt psychology
  • contingency fund — a sum of money allocated for use in an emergency or to cover unforeseen expenses
  • david g farragutDavid Glasgow, 1801–70, U.S. admiral: won the battles of New Orleans and Mobile Bay for the Union in the U.S. Civil War.
  • drug trafficking — smuggling illegal drugs
  • eigenfrequencies — Plural form of eigenfrequency.
  • facial neuralgia — paroxysmal darting pain and muscular twitching in the face, evoked by rubbing certain points of the face.
  • father-surrogate — a male who replaces an absent father and becomes an object of attachment.
  • feather geranium — a Eurasian weed, Chenopodium botrys, of the amaranth family, having clusters of inconspicuous flowers and unpleasant smelling, lobed leaves.
  • feel the draught — to be short of money
  • feeping creature — [feeping creaturism] An unnecessary feature; a bit of chrome that, in the speaker's judgment, is the camel's nose for a whole horde of new features.
  • ferruginous duck — a common European duck, Aythyra nyroca, having reddish-brown plumage with white wing bars
  • feulgen reaction — a reaction in which an aldehyde combines with a modified Schiff's reagent to produce a purplish compound: used especially to test for the presence of DNA
  • figure of speech — any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect. Compare trope (def 1).
  • figure-conscious — concerned to keep an attractively slim body shape
  • fire regulations — rules intended to make sure that people and property stay safe in the event of a fire
  • fishing industry — the industry of catching fish
  • flamborough head — a chalk promontory in NE England, on the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire
  • flight simulator — a device used in pilot and crew training that provides a cockpit environment and sensations of flight under actual conditions.
  • flowering quince — any shrub belonging to the genus Chaenomeles, of the rose family, native to eastern Asia, having showy, waxy flowers and a quincelike fruit, grown widely as an ornamental.
  • flutter tonguing — a method of sounding a wind instrument, esp the flute, with a rolling movement of the tongue
  • flying ambulance — an aircraft used to take sick or injured people to hospital
  • focused strategy — a business strategy in which an organization divests itself of all but its core activities, using the funds raised to enhance the distinctive abilities that give it an advantage over its rivals
  • folk linguistics — speculation and popular views about language.
  • food for thought — sth worth thinking about
  • foot fault judge — on official on the baseline who is responsible for calling foot faults
  • for a good cause — If you say that something is for a good cause, you mean that it is worth doing or giving to because it will help other people, for example by raising money for charity.
  • for good measure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
  • foreign currency — money used in another country
  • foreign language — language not one's mother tongue
  • four-deal bridge — a version of bridge in which four hands only are played, the players then cutting for new partners
  • four-masted brig — jackass bark (def 2).
  • freezing mixture — a mixture of two substances, usually salt and ice, to give a temperature below 0°C
  • functional group — a group of atoms responsible for the characteristic behavior of the class of compounds in which the group occurs, as the hydroxyl group in alcohols.
  • gas liquefaction — Gas liquefaction is the process of refrigerating a gas to a temperature that is below its critical temperature in order to form a liquid.
  • general factotum — a person who does all sorts of jobs; general assistant
  • geoffrey chaucerGeoffrey, 1340?–1400, English poet.
  • glory-of-the-sun — a bulbous, Chilean plant, Leucocoryne ixioides, of the amaryllis family, having fragrant, white or blue flowers.
  • go for your life — an expression of encouragement
  • go with the turf — to be an unavoidable part of a particular situation or process

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