12-letter words containing f, u, s
- ground frost — the condition resulting from a temperature reading of 0°C or below on a thermometer in contact with a grass surface
- ground staff — The people who are paid to maintain a sports ground are called the ground staff.
- guide fossil — index fossil.
- guilefulness — The quality of being guileful; cunning or deceit.
- gulf of siam — an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina
- gulf of suez — the NW arm of the Red Sea: linked with the Mediterranean by the Suez Canal
- gut of canso — Canso (def 2).
- half measure — If someone refers to policies or actions as half measures, they are critical of them because they think that they are not forceful enough and are therefore of little value.
- half serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- half-serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- hard-surface — to make the surface of (something) hard or firm, as by compacting or paving it: to hard-surface a parking area.
- heartfulness — The state or quality of being heartful.
- helium flash — the explosive burning of helium in the case of a star of low mass that occurs when the core is so dense that the matter has become degenerate. The burning causes a rapid rise in temperature until it is so high that the gas ceases to be degenerate, after which there is a rapid expansion
- hohenstaufen — a member of the royal family that ruled in Germany from 1138 to 1208 and from 1215 to 1254, and in Sicily from 1194 to 1266.
- honey fungus — an edible basidiomycetous fungus, Armillaria mellea, having a yellow-spotted cap and wrinkled stems, parasitic on the roots of woody plants, which it may kill by root rot. It spreads by thin black underground strands
- house of god — Also called house of worship, house of prayer. a building devoted to religious worship; a church, synagogue, temple, chapel, etc.
- housefathers — Plural form of housefather.
- huddersfield — a town in West Yorkshire, in N central England.
- human safari — an organized tour that takes tourists to unfamiliar places where they can observe the lifestyle of indigenous or other local people: human safaris to remote tribal communities; a human safari through the slums of Mumbai.
- hydrosulfate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
- hydrosulfide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- hypersurface — a mathematical object that generalizes the concept of surface from three-dimensional Euclidean space to hyperspace.
- ignis fatuus — Also called friar's lantern, will-o'-the-wisp. a flitting phosphorescent light seen at night, chiefly over marshy ground, and believed to be due to spontaneous combustion of gas from decomposed organic matter.
- iguaçú falls — a waterfall on the border between Brazil and Argentina, on the Iguaçú River: divided into hundreds of separate falls by forested rocky islands. Width: about 4 km (2.5 miles). Height: 82 m (269 ft)
- imprest fund — a fund of petty cash.
- in course of — in the process of
- in spadefuls — in an extreme or emphatic way
- inclusive of — including; taking into account
- infamousness — The state or quality of being infamous; infamy.
- infatuations — Plural form of infatuation.
- infectiously — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.
- infelicitous — inapt, inappropriate, or awkward; malapropos: an infelicitous remark.
- influentials — Plural form of influential.
- infusibility — Incapability or difficulty of being fused, melted, or dissolved.
- insightfully — characterized by or displaying insight; perceptive.
- insufferable — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- insufferably — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- insufficient — not sufficient; lacking in what is necessary or required: an insufficient answer.
- insufflation — to blow or breathe (something) in.
- interdiffuse — (of two or more fluids) to diffuse mutually
- iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
- jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
- jelly fungus — any of various fungi of the order Tremellales, distinguished by gelatinous basidiocarp.
- jesus freaks — a member of any of several fundamentalist groups of chiefly young people (Jesus people) originating in the early 1970s and emphasizing intense personal devotion to and study of Jesus Christ and His teachings.
- justifyingly — to show (an act, claim, statement, etc.) to be just or right: The end does not always justify the means.
- juventa fons — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed through a telescope.
- k'ung fu-tse — Chinese name of Confucius.
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- latifundista — the owner of a latifundio in Latin America or Spain.