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14-letter words containing f, u, t, r

  • formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
  • fortuitousness — The quality of being fortuitous.
  • fortune cookie — a thin folded wafer containing a prediction or maxim printed on a slip of paper: often served as a dessert in Chinese restaurants.
  • fortune hunter — a person who hopes to prosper, especially through marriage to someone of wealth.
  • fortune-hunter — a person who hopes to prosper, especially through marriage to someone of wealth.
  • fortune-teller — a person who claims the ability to predict the future.
  • fortunetelling — the act or practice of predicting the future.
  • founder effect — the accumulation of random genetic changes in an isolated population as a result of its proliferation from only a few parent colonizers.
  • founder's type — special type cast by a type founder for hand composition, as opposed to type cast in a mechanical composing machine
  • fountain grass — a perennial grass, Pennisetum setaceum, of Ethiopia, having bristly spikes, often rose-purple, grown as an ornamental.
  • four-four time — a form of simple quadruple time in which there are four crotchets to the bar, indicated by the time signature 44
  • fourth of july — Independence Day.
  • fragrant sumac — a sprawling shrub, Rhus aromatica, of the cashew family, native to eastern North America, having aromatic foliage and greenish-yellow flowers in small spikes.
  • fraudulentness — (rare) fraudulence.
  • french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
  • frenet formula — one of a set of formulas for finding the curvature and torsion of a plane or space curve in terms of vectors tangent or normal to the curve.
  • frequent flier — an airline passenger registered with a program that provides bonuses, as upgrades or free flights, based especially on distance traveled.
  • frequent flyer — a person who regularly makes air journeys
  • frequent-flier — designating or related to a program in which an airline awards points to customers for miles flown or for other approved expenditures and then redeems them for free air travel when sufficient points have been accumulated
  • fresh out (of) — having just sold or used up the last one or part (of)
  • front of house — restaurant
  • front side bus — (hardware)   (FSB) The bus via which a processor communicates with its RAM and chipset; one half of the Dual Independent Bus (the other half being the backside bus). The L2 cache is usually on the FSB, unless it is on the same chip as the processor [example?]. In PCI systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed. Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two main ways of overclocking processors.
  • frozen account — A frozen account is a bank account that cannot have money withdrawn from it, because of a court order.
  • frozen custard — a smooth-textured, soft, frozen-food product of whole milk, and sometimes cream, egg yolk, etc., sweetened and variously flavored, often served in an ice-cream cone.
  • frozen yoghurt — a dessert made from sweetened yoghurt that has been frozen
  • fructification — act of fructifying; the fruiting of a plant, fungus, etc.
  • fructificative — having the ability to yield or produce fruit.
  • fruit cocktail — an assortment of fruits cut into sections or pieces and served in a cup or a glass as an appetizer or dessert.
  • fuller's earth — an absorbent clay, used especially for removing grease from fabrics, in fulling cloth, as a filter, and as a dusting powder.
  • fully-featured — having a full range of features or functions
  • function creep — the gradual widening of the use of a technology or system beyond the purpose for which it was originally intended, esp when this leads to potential invasion of privacy
  • fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
  • futtock shroud — any of several metal rods secured at their lower ends to a futtock band and at their upper ends to a futtock plate, connecting the lower mast to the topmast rigging.
  • future perfect — perfect with respect to a temporal point of reference in time to come; completed with respect to a time in the future, especially when incomplete with respect to the present.
  • futurelessness — the state or quality of being futureless
  • futures market — a market in which futures contracts in commodities are traded.
  • futuristically — of or relating to the future: a futuristic view of the world.
  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • give it up for — If an audience is asked to give it up for a performer, they are being asked to applaud.
  • grapefruitlike — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
  • group of eight — the Group of Seven nations and Russia, whose heads of government meet to discuss economic matters and international relations
  • group of three — Japan, US, and Germany (formerly West Germany), regarded as the largest industrialized nations
  • guarantee form — a document that spells out the terms of a legally binding guarantee
  • guest of honor — a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.
  • hydraulic lift — an elevator operated by fluid pressure, especially one used for raising automobiles in service stations and garages.
  • ill-suited for — unsuitable for something
  • inferior court — a court of limited jurisdiction
  • infrastructure — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
  • injury benefit — money paid to someone who has sustained an injury
  • interdiffusion — mutual diffusion of fluids
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