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11-letter words containing f, u, r

  • fart around — a flatus expelled through the anus.
  • fatty tumor — lipoma.
  • faulknerian — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary style of William Faulkner.
  • fault scarp — scarp (def 1).
  • faultfinder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
  • fauxbourdon — Music. a 15th-century compositional technique employing three voices, the upper and lower voices progressing an octave or a sixth apart while the middle voice extemporaneously doubles the upper part at a fourth below.
  • favouritism — (British) The unfair favouring of one person or group at the expense of another.
  • fear-naught — a stout woolen cloth for overcoats.
  • fearfulness — causing or apt to cause fear; frightening: a fearful apparition.
  • feather cut — a woman's hair style in which the hair is cut in short and uneven lengths and formed into small curls with featherlike tips.
  • feather-cut — a woman's hair style in which the hair is cut in short and uneven lengths and formed into small curls with featherlike tips.
  • feature key — (hardware)   (Or "flower", "pretzel", "clover", "propeller", "beanie" (from propeller beanie), splat, "command key") The Macintosh modifier key with the four-leaf clover graphic on its keytop. The feature key is the Mac's equivalent of a control key (and so labelled on some Mac II keyboards). The proliferation of terms for this creature may illustrate one subtle peril of iconic interfaces. Macs also have an "Option" modifier key, equivalent to Alt. The cloverleaf-like symbol's oldest name is "cross of St. Hannes", but it occurs in pre-Christian Viking art as a decorative motif. In Scandinavia it marks sites of historical interest. An early Macintosh developer who happened to be Swedish introduced it to Apple. Apple documentation gives the translation "interesting feature". The symbol has a Unicode character called "PLACE OF INTEREST SIGN" (U+2318), previously known as "command key". The Swedish name of this symbol stands for the word "sev"ardhet" (interesting feature), many of which are old churches. Some Swedes report as an idiom for it the word "kyrka", cognate to English "church" and Scots-dialect "kirk" but pronounced /shir'k*/ in modern Swedish. Others say this is nonsense.
  • featureless — without distinctive features; uninteresting, plain, or drab: a featureless landscape.
  • febriferous — producing fever.
  • feedthrough — a connector used to pass a conductor through a circuit board or enclosure.
  • fergusonite — a rare-earth mineral, yttrium columbate and tantalate, found in pegmatites.
  • ferociously — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
  • ferriferous — producing or yielding iron: ferriferous rock.
  • ferrocerium — an alloy of 65 percent misch metal and 35 percent iron, used in flints for cigarette lighters.
  • ferruginous — Geology. iron-bearing: ferruginous clays.
  • fervourless — Without fervour.
  • feudatories — Plural form of feudatory.
  • fibrousness — The state or quality of being fibrous.
  • fiduciaries — Plural form of fiduciary.
  • fiduciarily — Law. a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.
  • figurations — Plural form of figuration.
  • figureheads — Plural form of figurehead.
  • filibusters — Plural form of filibuster.
  • fillibuster — Alternative form of filibuster.
  • film colour — a misty appearance produced when no lines or edges are present in the visual field
  • filoviruses — Plural form of filovirus.
  • filter pump — a vacuum pump used to assist laboratory filtrations in which a jet of water inside a glass tube entrains air molecules from the system to be evacuated
  • fingerguard — something that protects the fingers
  • finno-ugric — the major branch of the Uralic family of languages, subdivided into Finnic, which includes Finnish and Estonian, and Ugric, which includes Hungarian.
  • first cause — God.
  • firstfruits — the fruits first gathered in a season
  • fish course — A fish course is a part of a meal in which fish is served, usually before the entrée.
  • fish manure — solid waste from fish, used as a fertilizer
  • fissiparous — reproducing by fission.
  • fixed trust — unit trust (def 1).
  • fixer-upper — a person who is handy at making repairs.
  • flavourings — Plural form of flavouring.
  • flavourless — British standard spelling of flavorless.
  • flavoursome — Alternative spelling of flavorsome.
  • flea circus — a number of fleas trained to perform tricks, as for a carnival sideshow
  • flexicurity — a welfare-state model, originating in Denmark in the 1990s, that combines labour-market flexibility, social security, and a proactive labour market
  • flirtatious — given or inclined to flirtation.
  • flocculator — to form into flocculent masses.
  • floral tube — a cylinder formed in some flowers by the fusion of the perianth and stamens, as in the daffodil or iris.
  • floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
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