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16-letter words containing f, u, r, o

  • council of trent — the council of the Roman Catholic Church that met between 1545 and 1563 at Trent in S Tyrol. Reacting against the Protestants, it reaffirmed traditional Catholic beliefs and formulated the ideals of the Counter-Reformation
  • counterfactually — a conditional statement the first clause of which expresses something contrary to fact, as “If I had known.”.
  • counteroffensive — a series of attacks by a defending force against an attacking enemy
  • course of action — a way of proceeding
  • court of appeals — A Court of Appeals is a court which deals with appeals against legal judgments.
  • court of inquiry — A court of inquiry is a group of people who are officially appointed to investigate a serious accident or incident, or an official investigation into a serious accident or incident.
  • court of justice — a legal court
  • court of session — the supreme civil court in Scotland
  • cream of coconut — coconut cream (def 1).
  • cream-of-coconut — Also called cream of coconut. a creamy white liquid skimmed from the top of coconut milk that has been made by soaking grated coconut meat in water, used in East Indian cookery, mixed drinks, etc.
  • creature comfort — anything providing bodily comfort, as food, clothing, or shelter
  • curried function — (mathematics, programming)   A function of N arguments that is considered as a function of one argument which returns another function of N-1 arguments. E.g. in Haskell we can define: average :: Int -> (Int -> Int) (The parentheses are optional). A partial application of average, to one Int, e.g. (average 4), returns a function of type (Int -> Int) which averages its argument with 4. In uncurried languages a function must always be applied to all its arguments but a partial application can be represented using a lambda abstraction: \ x -> average(4,x) Currying is necessary if full laziness is to be applied to functional sub-expressions. It was named after the logician Haskell Curry but the 19th-century logician, Gottlob Frege was the first to propose it and it was first referred to in ["Uber die Bausteine der mathematischen Logik", M. Schoenfinkel, Mathematische Annalen. Vol 92 (1924)]. Stefan Kahrs <[email protected]> reported hearing somebody in Germany trying to introduce "scho"nen" for currying and "finkeln" for "uncurrying". The verb "scho"nen" means "to beautify"; "finkeln" isn't a German word, but it suggests "to fiddle".
  • customer profile — a description or analysis of a typical or ideal customer for one's business
  • cutoff frequency — a frequency level above or below which a device fails to respond or operate efficiently
  • dandruff shampoo — a preparation of soap or detergent used to wash the hair and which helps to control and reduce dandruff
  • deboursification — (jargon)   Removal of irrelevant newsgroups from the Newsgroups header of a followup. The term applies particularly to the removal of frivolous groups added by one of the Kooks. See also: sneck.
  • do oneself proud — to do extremely well
  • do-it-yourselfer — an advocate or enthusiast of do-it-yourself
  • documentary film — factual, informative film
  • error of closure — the amount by which a computed, plotted, or observed quantity or position differs from the true or established one, esp when plotting a closed traverse
  • family of curves — a collection of curves whose equations differ only by values assigned a parameter or parameters.
  • farmhouse cheese — cheese that is made by traditional methods, on or as if on a farm
  • fashion industry — the industry that deals with the world of fashion
  • father-surrogate — a male who replaces an absent father and becomes an object of attachment.
  • ferrous sulphate — an iron salt with a saline taste, usually obtained as greenish crystals of the heptahydrate, which are converted to the white monohydrate above 100°C: used in inks, tanning, water purification, and in the treatment of anaemia. Formula: FeSO4
  • 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
  • fibonacci number — a number in the Fibonacci sequence, each of which is the sum of the previous two
  • fictitious force — any force that is postulated to account for apparent deviations from Newton's laws of motion appearing in an accelerated reference system.
  • 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
  • find favour with — to be approved of by someone
  • finished product — the product that emerges at the end of a manufacturing process
  • fire regulations — rules intended to make sure that people and property stay safe in the event of a fire
  • fire-tube boiler — any boiler for generating steam by passing hot gases and other combustible products through tubes (fire tubes) immersed in water to a chimney or uptake.
  • first four ships — the earliest settlers' ships to arrive in the Canterbury Province
  • fish or cut bait — any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
  • fissure eruption — the emergence of lava from a fissure in the ground rather than from a volcanic cone or vent
  • flamborough head — a chalk promontory in NE England, on the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire
  • flame cultivator — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
  • flashbulb memory — the clear recollections that a person may have of the circumstances associated with a dramatic event
  • 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.
  • fluorescent lamp — a tubular electric discharge lamp in which light is produced by the fluorescence of phosphors coating the inside of the tube.
  • flutter tonguing — a method of sounding a wind instrument, esp the flute, with a rolling movement of the tongue
  • 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
  • follicular phase — a stage of the menstrual cycle, from onset of menstruation to ovulation.
  • follow-up letter — a letter sent as a follow-up to an initial letter or to a telephone call, meeting, etc
  • food for thought — sth worth thinking about
  • fool around with — have casual sex
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