12-letter words containing f, u, s, e
- discomfiture — Archaic. defeat in battle; rout.
- disgracefull — Archaic form of disgraceful.
- disqualified — Simple past tense and past participle of disqualify.
- disqualifier — One who, or that which, disqualifies.
- disqualifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disqualify.
- disregardful — neglectful; careless.
- distastefull — Archaic form of distasteful.
- doloriferous — causing pain or sadness, dolorific
- double first — a first in two subjects.
- doubtfulness — of uncertain outcome or result.
- dreadfulness — The characteristic of being dreadful.
- dreamfulness — the quality of being full of dreams
- dysfluencies — disfluency.
- east suffolk — a former administrative division of Suffolk county, in E England.
- effusiometer — an apparatus for determining rates of effusion of gases, usually used for measuring molecular weights
- effusiveness — unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve: effusive greetings; an effusive person.
- eisteddfodau — Plural form of eisteddfod.
- emulsifiable — That can be emulsified, or applied in an emulsion.
- equisetiform — having the form of equisetum
- eventfulness — The property of being eventful.
- exclusive of — not including or allowing for; ignoring
- exsufflation — (obsolete) A blast from beneath.
- exsufflicate — Empty, inflated, frivolous.
- fabulousness — almost impossible to believe; incredible.
- factiousness — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
- factualities — of or relating to facts; concerning facts: factual accuracy.
- faithfullest — Superlative form of faithful.
- faithfulness — strict or thorough in the performance of duty: a faithful worker.
- false cirrus — a type of thick cirrus cloud spreading from the top of a cumulonimbus cloud
- false colour — colour used in a computer or photographic display to help in interpreting the image, as in the use of red to show high temperatures and blue to show low temperatures in an infrared image converter
- fancifulness — The quality of being fanciful.
- fasciculated — Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.
- fashiousness — the quality of being fashious; troublesomeness
- fast neutron — a neutron produced by nuclear fission that has lost little energy by collision; a neutron with a kinetic energy in excess of 0.1 MeV
- fatty tissue — tissue with excessive accumulation of fat
- fauxmosexual — (slang) A heterosexual person who affects homosexual characteristics.
- favouredness — the quality of or extent to which something is favoured
- felicitously — In a felicitous manner.
- felliniesque — referring to or reminiscent of the films of Federico Fellini
- fergus falls — a city in W central Minnesota.
- field circus — A derogatory pun on "field service". The field service organisation of any hardware manufacturer, but especially DEC. There is an entire genre of jokes about DEC field circus engineers: Q: How can you recognise a DEC field circus engineer with a flat tire? A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat. Q: How can you recognise a DEC field circus engineer who is out of gas? A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat. See Easter egging for additional insight on these jokes. There is also the "Field Circus Cheer" (from the plan file for DEC on MIT-AI): Maynard! Maynard! Don't mess with us! We're mean and we're tough! If you get us confused We'll screw up your stuff. (DEC's service HQ is located in Maynard, Massachusetts).
- figure skate — a shoe skate used in figure skating, especially one having a blade shorter than that of a racing skate, usually not extending beyond the toe or heel, and with notches or sawteeth on the curved forward edge.
- figure-skate — to take part in figure skating
- figured bass — a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them indicating the chords to be played.
- file request — 1. The FidoNet equivalent of FTP, in which one BBS system automatically dials another and snarfs one or more files. Often abbreviated "FReq"; files are often announced as being "available for FReq" in the same way that files are announced as being "available for/by anonymous FTP" on the Internet. 2. The act of getting a copy of a file by using the File Request option of the BBS mailer.
- filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
- filibusterer — A person who filibusters.
- fillibusters — Plural form of fillibuster.
- final clause — a clause expressing intention or purpose
- fire support — support given by artillery and aircraft to infantry and armored vehicles.