14-letter words containing f, u, r, i
- life assurance — insurance: pays if holder dies
- life insurance — insurance providing for payment of a sum of money to a named beneficiary upon the death of the policyholder or to the policyholder if still living after reaching a specified age.
- lifestyle guru — a person hired to give someone advice on various aspects of his or her life, work, and relationships
- long-suffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
- lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
- maid of honour — A maid of honour is the chief bridesmaid at a wedding.
- 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.
- mixed foursome — a foursome of two teams, each comprised of a man and a woman.
- molecular film — a film or layer one molecule thick.
- mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- 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.
- multifrequency — Of or pertaining to multiple frequencies.
- multiple fruit — a fruit, such as a pineapple, formed from the ovaries of individual flowers in an inflorescence
- mustard family — the plant family Cruciferae (or Brassicaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants having alternate leaves, acrid or pungent juice, clusters of four-petaled flowers, and fruit in the form of a two-parted capsule, and including broccoli, cabbage, candytuft, cauliflower, cress, mustard, radish, sweet alyssum, turnip, and wallflower.
- neurofibromata — a benign neoplasm composed of the fibrous elements of a nerve.
- nitrofurantoin — an antimicrobial substance, C 8 H 6 N 4 O 5 , used for the treatment of urinary tract infections.
- non-uniformity — the state or quality of being uniform; overall sameness, homogeneity, or regularity: uniformity of style.
- nuclear family — a social unit composed of two parents and one or more children.
- nuclear fusion — fusion (def 4).
- on firm ground — in a safe situation
- oral-formulaic — noting or pertaining to poetry of an earlier spoken tradition, as the Iliad, that uses formulas to aid its continued expression.
- out of spirits — sad; depressed
- over-fulfilled — to carry out, or bring to realization, as a prophecy or promise.
- over-influence — 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.
- overfastidious — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- parturifacient — inducing or accelerating labor, or childbirth; oxytocic.
- perfidiousness — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- picture-framer — a person or company whose job is to frame photographs, paintings etc
- porcupine fish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
- preformulation — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- preunification — of the period before unification
- profit squeeze — a sharp narrowing of the gap between cost and revenue.
- proximity fuse — an electronically triggered device designed to detonate an explosive charge in a missile, etc, at a predetermined distance from the target
- proximity fuze — a design for detonating a charge, as in a projectile, within a predesignated radius of a target.
- public affairs — (used with a plural verb) matters of general interest or concern, especially those dealing with current social or political issues.
- public officer — a person appointed or elected to a governmental post.
- public welfare — state aid to the poor
- purkinje fiber — any of the specialized cardiac muscle fibers forming a network in the ventricular walls that conduct electric impulses responsible for the contractions of the ventricles.
- quadratic form — a polynomial all of whose terms are of degree 2 in two or more variables, as 5 x 2 − 2 xy + 3 y 2 .
- quality factor — a property of ionizing radiations that affects their ability to cause biological effects. For weakly ionizing radiations such as gamma rays it has value 1 whilst for alpha rays it is about 20
- quasi-informal — without formality or ceremony; casual: an informal visit.
- quinquefarious — consisting of or divided into five lines, sections, etc
- radiofrequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
- radium sulfate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous, radioactive solid, RaSO 4 , used chiefly in radiotherapy.
- redear sunfish — a freshwater sunfish, Lepomis microlophos, of the lower Mississippi valley and southeastern states, having the gill cover margined with scarlet.
- reform judaism — Judaism as observed by Reform Jews.
- refund annuity — an annuity providing for a lump-sum payment or installment payments to the beneficiary for the amount remaining of the purchase price at the death of the annuitant.
- revenue tariff — a tariff or duty imposed on imports primarily to produce public revenue.
- revolving fund — any loan fund intended to be maintained by the repayment of past loans.