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12-letter words containing f, u, s

  • exclusive of — not including or allowing for; ignoring
  • exsufflation — (obsolete) A blast from beneath.
  • exsufflicate — Empty, inflated, frivolous.
  • fabulousness — almost impossible to believe; incredible.
  • facial scrub — a beauty product or treatment which cleanses and exfoliates the skin of the face
  • factiousness — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
  • factitiously — In a factitious manner.
  • factualities — of or relating to facts; concerning facts: factual accuracy.
  • fair housing — the sale and rental of private housing free of discriminatory practices or policies.
  • faithfullest — Superlative form of faithful.
  • faithfulness — strict or thorough in the performance of duty: a faithful worker.
  • fallaciously — In a fallacious manner, erroneously, illogically.
  • 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.
  • fascicularly — in a fascicular manner
  • 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
  • fastidiously — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
  • 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.
  • fibrous root — a root, as in most grasses, having numerous, very fine branches of approximately the same length.
  • fictitiously — created, taken, or assumed for the sake of concealment; not genuine; false: fictitious names.
  • 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.
  • firing squad — a military detachment assigned to execute a condemned person by shooting.
  • first cousin — cousin (def 1).
  • first fruits — The first fruits of a project or activity are the earliest results or profits.
  • fish culture — the artificial propagation and breeding of fish.
  • fissilingual — having a forked tongue
  • fixture list — a list of the games that a team is scheduled to play
  • flagitiously — In a flagitious manner.
  • flammiferous — flame-producing
  • flatterously — in a flatterous manner
  • flesh colour — of a yellowish-pink to yellowish-grey colour roughly that of the skin of a white person
  • fleur-de-lis — a heraldic device somewhat resembling three petals or floral segments of an iris tied by an encircling band.
  • fleur-de-lys — fleur-de-lis (defs 1, 2).
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