11-letter words containing f, u, n, c
- furnacelike — Resembling or characteristic of a furnace.
- furthcoming — an action raised to recover property which has been arrested in the hands of a third party
- furtherance — the act of furthering; promotion; advancement.
- furunculous — Furuncular.
- gas furnace — a furnace using gas as a fuel.
- genuflected — Simple past tense and past participle of genuflect.
- gunn effect — the onset of microwave oscillations in a thin slice of a semiconductor when a voltage exceeding a given value is applied across the slice.
- handcuffing — Present participle of handcuff.
- house finch — a small common finch, Carpodacus mexicanus, originally of the western U.S. and Mexico and now widely distributed: the males have a red forehead, throat, breast, and rump.
- in full cry — When someone is in full cry, they are expressing their views very strongly or are very active.
- income fund — a mutual fund that invests primarily in stocks that are likely to continue to pay or increase dividends.
- increaseful — full of increase; fertile; fruitful
- ineffectual — not effectual; without satisfactory or decisive effect: an ineffectual remedy.
- infecundity — not fecund; unfruitful; barren.
- influencers — Plural form of influencer.
- influencing — the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others: He used family influence to get the contract.
- infrequency — state of being infrequent.
- infructuose — Not yielding fruit.
- infructuous — (Pakistan and India only; of a project etc) not fruitful.
- inofficious — being inconsistent with moral duty and natural affection.
- insectifuge — a substance or preparation for driving off insects.
- janus-faced — having two faces, one looking forward, one looking backward, as the Roman deity Janus.
- malfunction — failure to function properly: a malfunction of the liver; the malfunction of a rocket.
- manufactory — a factory.
- manufacture — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- microfaunal — Of, or relating to, a microfauna.
- microfungus — A fungus in which no sexual process has been observed or in which the reproductive organs are microscopic.
- misfunction — malfunction.
- munificence — the quality of being munificent, or showing unusual generosity: The museum's collection was greatly increased by the munificence of the family's gift.
- nonforceful — Not forceful.
- nonfunction — Failure to function; inoperativeness.
- not much of — not to any appreciable degree or extent
- obfuscating — Present participle of obfuscate.
- obfuscation — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- offscouring — Often, offscourings. something scoured off; filth; refuse.
- on the cuff — a fold or band serving as a trimming or finish for the bottom of a sleeve.
- out of sync — out of synchronization (with)
- perfunctory — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- pound-force — a foot-pound-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity when acting on a mass of one pound. Abbreviation: lbf.
- prefunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- reconfigure — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
- refuctoring — (humour, programming) Taking a well-designed piece of code and, through a series of small, reversible changes, making it completely unmaintainable by anyone except yourself. The term is a humourous play on the term refactoring and was coined by Jason Gorman in a pub in 2002. Refuctoring techniques include: Using Pig Latin as a naming convention. Stating The Bleeding Obvious - writing comments that paraphrase the code (e.g., "declare an integer called I with an initial value of zero"). Module Gravity Well - adding all new code to the biggest module. Unique Modeling Language - inventing your own visual notation. Treasure Hunt - Writing code consisting mostly of references to other code and documents that reference other documents. Rainy Day Module - writing spare code just in case somebody needs it later.
- round-faced — having a face that is round.
- rubefacient — causing redness of the skin, as a medicinal application.
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- school fund — the money provided by a government or raised by parents and teachers to finance the running of a school
- schweinfurt — a city in N Bavaria, in S central Germany, on the Main River.
- scruffiness — the state of being unkempt or shabby
- snuff stick — a twig, stick, or brush used to apply snuff on the teeth or gums.
- social fund — (in Britain) a social security fund from which loans or payments may be made to people in cases of extreme need