14-letter words containing f, u, s
- long-suffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
- lost and found — a room in a public place for items left behind and from which the owners may retrieve them.
- make a fuss of — If you make a fuss of someone, you pay them a lot of attention and do things to make them happy or comfortable.
- meaningfulness — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
- minucius felix — Marcus, Roman writer of the 2nd century a.d. whose dialogue Octavius is the earliest known work of Latin-Christian literature.
- minus infinity — The most negative value, not necessarily or even usually the simple negation of plus infinity. In N bit twos-complement arithmetic, infinity is 2^(N-1) - 1 but minus infinity is -(2^(N-1)), not -(2^(N-1) - 1).
- mixed foursome — a foursome of two teams, each comprised of a man and a woman.
- mosquito fleet — a group or fleet of PT boats or other small, armed boats.
- mouths to feed — family members, dependents
- multifariously — In a multifarious manner.
- music festival — a festival, often an annual event, at which a lot of different performers play
- mustard family — the plant family Cruciferae (or Brassicaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants having alternate leaves, acrid or pungent juice, clusters of four-petaled flowers, and fruit in the form of a two-parted capsule, and including broccoli, cabbage, candytuft, cauliflower, cress, mustard, radish, sweet alyssum, turnip, and wallflower.
- neglectfulness — The characteristic of being neglectful.
- non-diffusible — capable of being diffused.
- non-fastidious — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- non-infectious — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.
- nonfilamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
- nonfluorescent — possessing the property of fluorescence; exhibiting fluorescence.
- nuclear fusion — fusion (def 4).
- nullius filius — (especially in law) son of nobody; bastard.
- of set purpose — with a specific end in view
- of your dreams — If you describe someone or something as the person or thing of your dreams, you mean that you consider them to be ideal or perfect.
- officious will — a will by which the testator gives his or her property to the natural objects of such bounty, as the family.
- on the surface — to all appearances
- out of fashion — no longer popular
- out of spirits — sad; depressed
- overfastidious — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- panther fungus — a highly poisonous mushroom, Amanita pantherina, with a brownish cap covered with white cottony patches.
- paper-shuffler — a person who has a routine desk job.
- pasteur effect — the inhibiting of fermentation by oxygen.
- perfect square — a rational number that is equal to the square of another rational number.
- perfidiousness — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- pleasure craft — A pleasure craft is the same as a pleasure boat.
- porcupine fish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
- potts-fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
- pouilly fuissé — a dry white Burgundy wine made from the chardonnay grape
- pouilly-fuisse — a dry, white wine from Burgundy.
- pound of flesh — the soft substance of a human or other animal body, consisting of muscle and fat.
- profit squeeze — a sharp narrowing of the gap between cost and revenue.
- proximity fuse — an electronically triggered device designed to detonate an explosive charge in a missile, etc, at a predetermined distance from the target
- public affairs — (used with a plural verb) matters of general interest or concern, especially those dealing with current social or political issues.
- purposefulness — having a purpose.
- qualifications — Plural form of qualification.
- quasi-infinite — immeasurably great: an infinite capacity for forgiveness.
- quasi-informal — without formality or ceremony; casual: an informal visit.
- quasi-official — a person appointed or elected to an office or charged with certain duties.
- quassia family — the plant family Simaroubaceae, characterized by tropical and subtropical trees and shrubs having pinnately compound leaves, clusters of flowers, fruit in the form of a capsule or berry, or fleshy or winged fruit, and a bitter bark used medicinally, and including the ailanthus and quassia.
- queen of sheba — a queen of the Sabeans, who visited Solomon (I Kings 10:1–13)
- quinquefarious — consisting of or divided into five lines, sections, etc
- radium sulfate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous, radioactive solid, RaSO 4 , used chiefly in radiotherapy.