14-letter words containing f, u, l, t, o
- flat back four — a set of four fullbacks in line formation
- flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
- floating cloud — Drifting Cloud, The.
- floriculturist — the cultivation of flowers or flowering plants, especially for ornamental purposes.
- fluoridization — to treat, impregnate, or affect with a fluoride.
- 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.
- forethoughtful — full of or having forethought; provident.
- forklift truck — vehicle for lifting heavy loads
- formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
- fortune-teller — a person who claims the ability to predict the future.
- fortunetelling — the act or practice of predicting the future.
- foundationally — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
- foundationless — Without foundation; unfounded.
- fountain plant — Joseph's-coat.
- fourth of july — Independence Day.
- frenet formula — one of a set of formulas for finding the curvature and torsion of a plane or space curve in terms of vectors tangent or normal to the curve.
- fruit cocktail — an assortment of fruits cut into sections or pieces and served in a cup or a glass as an appetizer or dessert.
- fuel injection — the spraying of liquid fuel into the cylinders or combustion chambers of an engine.
- functionalised — to make functional.
- functionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of functionalize.
- fundoplication — (surgery) An operation in which the gastric fundus (upper part) of the stomach is wrapped, or plicated, around the lower end of the esophagus and stitched in place, reinforcing the closing function of the lower esophageal sphincter. The esophageal hiatus is also narrowed down by sutures to prevent or treat concurrent hiatal hernia, in which the fundus slides up through the enlarged esophageal hiatus of the diaphragm.
- gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
- gulf of tonkin — an arm of the South China Sea, bordered by N Vietnam, the Leizhou Peninsula of SW China, and Hainan Island. Length: about 500 km (300 miles)
- ill-suited for — unsuitable for something
- in lieu of sth — If you do, get, or give one thing in lieu of another, you do, get, or give it instead of the other thing, because the two things are considered to have the same value or importance.
- infelicitously — In a way that is infelicitous or unfortunate.
- lady bountiful — a wealthy lady in George Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem, noted for her kindness and generosity.
- law of thought — any of the three basic laws of traditional logic: the law of contradiction, the law of excluded middle, and the law of identity.
- left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
- lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
- lost and found — a room in a public place for items left behind and from which the owners may retrieve them.
- malfunctioning — failure to function properly: a malfunction of the liver; the malfunction of a rocket.
- methoxyflurane — a potent substance, C 3 H 4 Cl 2 F 2 O, used as an analgesic in minor surgical procedures and less frequently as a general anesthetic.
- miniature golf — a game or amusement modeled on golf and played with a putter and golf ball, in which each very short, grassless “hole” constitutes an obstacle course, consisting of wooden alleys, tunnels, bridges, etc., through which the ball must be driven to hole it.
- mosquito fleet — a group or fleet of PT boats or other small, armed boats.
- multi-function — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- multifactorial — having or stemming from a number of different causes or influences: Some medical researchers regard cancer as a multifactorial disease.
- multifariously — In a multifarious manner.
- non-fraudulent — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
- non-functional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- nonfilamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
- nonfluorescent — possessing the property of fluorescence; exhibiting fluorescence.
- nonfulfillment — neglect or failure to fulfill or carry out as required.
- noninfluential — Not influential.
- occluded front — a composite front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front and forces it aloft.
- olfactory bulb — the enlarged terminal part of each olfactory lobe from which the olfactory nerve originates.
- out of control — wild, unrestrained
- outing flannel — a light cotton flannel with a short, dense nap.