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14-letter words containing f, u, n, t

  • 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.
  • fraudulentness — (rare) fraudulence.
  • french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
  • 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.
  • frequent flier — an airline passenger registered with a program that provides bonuses, as upgrades or free flights, based especially on distance traveled.
  • frequent flyer — a person who regularly makes air journeys
  • frequent-flier — designating or related to a program in which an airline awards points to customers for miles flown or for other approved expenditures and then redeems them for free air travel when sufficient points have been accumulated
  • front of house — restaurant
  • front side bus — (hardware)   (FSB) The bus via which a processor communicates with its RAM and chipset; one half of the Dual Independent Bus (the other half being the backside bus). The L2 cache is usually on the FSB, unless it is on the same chip as the processor [example?]. In PCI systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed. Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two main ways of overclocking processors.
  • frozen account — A frozen account is a bank account that cannot have money withdrawn from it, because of a court order.
  • frozen custard — a smooth-textured, soft, frozen-food product of whole milk, and sometimes cream, egg yolk, etc., sweetened and variously flavored, often served in an ice-cream cone.
  • frozen yoghurt — a dessert made from sweetened yoghurt that has been frozen
  • fructification — act of fructifying; the fruiting of a plant, fungus, etc.
  • fuel injection — the spraying of liquid fuel into the cylinders or combustion chambers of an engine.
  • fuel-efficient — producing power, heat, etc., at a rate considered optimal with regard to the amount of fuel consumed.
  • function creep — the gradual widening of the use of a technology or system beyond the purpose for which it was originally intended, esp when this leads to potential invasion of privacy
  • function shift — a change in the syntactic function of a word, as when the noun mushroom is used as an intransitive verb
  • function space — a linear space, the elements of which are functions.
  • functionalised — to make functional.
  • functionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of functionalize.
  • fundamentalism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts, especially within American Protestantism and Islam.
  • fundamentalist — an adherent of fundamentalism, a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts: radical fundamentalists.
  • fundamentality — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
  • 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.
  • fused sentence — a written sequence of two or more main clauses that are not separated by a period or semicolon or joined by a conjunction.
  • fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
  • futuna islands — a group of islands in the SW Pacific Ocean belonging to the Wallis and Futuna Islands.
  • futurelessness — the state or quality of being futureless
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • guarantee form — a document that spells out the terms of a legally binding guarantee
  • guest of honor — a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.
  • 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)
  • heat of fusion — the heat absorbed by a unit mass of a given solid at its melting point that completely converts the solid to a liquid at the same temperature: equal to the heat of solidification.
  • humidification — to make humid.
  • in actual fact — You use in fact, in actual fact, or in point of fact to indicate that you are giving more detailed information about what you have just said.
  • 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.
  • in/out of step — If people who are walking or dancing are in step, they are moving their feet forward at exactly the same time as each other. If they are out of step, their feet are moving forward at different times.
  • in/out of time — If you are playing, singing, or dancing in time with a piece of music, you are following the rhythm and speed of the music correctly. If you are out of time with it, you are not following the rhythm and speed of the music correctly.
  • ineffectuality — not effectual; without satisfactory or decisive effect: an ineffectual remedy.
  • infectiousness — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.
  • infelicitously — In a way that is infelicitous or unfortunate.
  • inferior court — a court of limited jurisdiction
  • infrastructure — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
  • infundibulated — Funnel-shaped.
  • injury benefit — money paid to someone who has sustained an injury
  • insightfulness — The state or condition of being insightful.
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