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14-letter words containing f, u, s, e

  • duarte fuentes — José Napoleón [haw-se nah-paw-le-awn] /hɔˈsɛ nɑ pɔ lɛˈɔn/ (Show IPA), 1926–90, Salvadoran political leader: president 1980–82, 1984–89.
  • duty-free shop — airport: untaxed goods store
  • dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
  • earl of surrey — Earl of (Henry Howard) 1517?–47, English poet.
  • emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
  • enfant sauvage — a person given to naive, undisciplined, or unpredictable behaviour, largely because of youth and inexperience
  • english muffin — crumpet
  • excuse oneself — to ask that one's fault be overlooked; apologize
  • extraforaneous — (nonce, archaic) outdoor.
  • face the music — an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.
  • facinorousness — the quality of being facinorous
  • factitiousness — The quality of being factitious.
  • fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
  • farey sequence — the increasing sequence of fractions in which numerator and denominator have no common divisor other than one and in which the denominator is less than or equal to a given positive integer p. For p = 4, the Farey sequence of order 4 is 0/1, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 1/1.
  • farmhouse loaf — a large white loaf, baked in a tin, with slightly curved sides and top
  • fastidiousness — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
  • favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
  • feather duster — a brush for dusting, made of a bundle of large feathers attached to a short handle.
  • felicitousness — The state or condition of being felicitous.
  • fellow student — sb studying at same institution
  • feng yu-hsiang — ("Christian General") 1880–1948, Chinese general.
  • fictitiousness — The state of being fictitious.
  • fideicommissum — a request by a decedent that the heir or legatee to the estate convey a specified part of the estate to another person, or permit another person to enjoy such a part.
  • field larkspur — a European plant, Consolida regalis, of the buttercup family, having sparse clusters of blue or violet-colored flowers and smooth fruit.
  • field mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
  • fiesta taurina — fiesta de toros.
  • figurativeness — The property of being figurative.
  • figure skating — ice skating in which the skater traces intricate patterns on the ice.
  • file signature — A magic number.
  • fine structure — a group of lines that are observed in the spectra of certain elements, as hydrogen, and that are caused by various couplings of the azimuthal quantum number and the angular momentum quantum number.
  • fire apparatus — equipment for extinguishing destructive fires.
  • fire insurance — insurance covering any loss or damage caused by fire.
  • first language — mother tongue
  • first quartile — (in a frequency distribution) the smallest quartile; the twenty-fifth percentile; the value of the variable below which one quarter of the elements are located.
  • first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
  • flagelliferous — bearing a flagellum
  • flagitiousness — The state or quality of being flagitious.
  • flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
  • flesh-coloured — Something that is flesh-coloured is yellowish pink in colour.
  • flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
  • fluid pressure — the pressure exerted by a fluid, directly proportional to the specific gravity at any point and to the height of the fluid above the point.
  • for the use of — If something is for the use of a particular person or group of people, it is for that person or group to use.
  • foraminiferous — Having small openings, or foramina.
  • fortuitousness — The quality of being fortuitous.
  • foundationless — Without foundation; unfounded.
  • founder's type — special type cast by a type founder for hand composition, as opposed to type cast in a mechanical composing machine
  • four-eyed fish — a small, surface-swimming fish, Anableps anableps, inhabiting shallow, muddy streams of Mexico and Central America, having each eye divided, with the upper half adapted for seeing in air and the lower half for seeing in water.
  • fourier series — an infinite series that involves linear combinations of sines and cosines and approximates a given function on a specified domain.
  • fraise du bois — a wild strawberry.
  • framing square — a steel square usually having on its faces various tables and scales useful to the carpenter.
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