10-letter words containing f, u
- futuristic — of or relating to the future: a futuristic view of the world.
- futurities — Plural form of futurity.
- futurology — the study or forecasting of trends or developments in science, technology, political or social structure, etc.
- gauffering — an ornamental plaiting used for frills and borders, as on women's caps.
- genuflects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of genuflect.
- get out of — extricate oneself from
- ghastfully — in a ghastful manner
- go out for — To go out for something means to try to do it or be chosen for it.
- gracefully — characterized by elegance or beauty of form, manner, movement, or speech; elegant: a graceful dancer; a graceful reply.
- gram flour — flour prepared from the gram seeds
- grapefruit — a large, roundish, yellow-skinned, edible citrus fruit having a juicy, acid pulp.
- gratefully — warmly or deeply appreciative of kindness or benefits received; thankful: I am grateful to you for your help.
- greenstuff — paper money.
- ground fir — ground pine
- ground fog — a low, often dense fog, especially one through which the sky and clouds above can be seen.
- groundfire — small arms fire directed against aircraft from the ground.
- groundfish — (fishing) Fish that swim near the seafloor.
- guest flag — a rectangular white flag flown at the starboard main spreader or main yardarm of a yacht when the owner is away but guests are on board.
- guide left — a command to a marching formation to align itself with a guide marching at the left side of the formation.
- guilefully — In a guileful manner.
- guineafowl — Alternative spelling of guinea fowl.
- guitarfish — any sharklike ray of the family Rhinobatidae, of warm seas, resembling a guitar in shape.
- gunfighter — a person highly skilled in the use of a gun and a veteran of many gunfights, especially one living during the frontier days of the American West.
- guy friday — a man who acts as a general assistant in a business office or to an executive and has a wide variety of especially secretarial and clerical duties.
- half-bound — bound in half binding.
- half-drunk — being in a temporary state in which one's physical and mental faculties are impaired by an excess of alcoholic drink; intoxicated: The wine made him drunk.
- half-human — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
- half-pound — a unit of weight equal to 8 ounces avoirdupois (0.227 kilogram) or 6 ounces troy or apothecaries' weight (0.187 kilogram).
- half-quire — 12 uniform sheets of paper.
- half-round — semicircular in cross section, as a molding or piece of type.
- half-stuff — (in a manufacturing process) any material half formed, especially partly prepared pulp for making paper.
- half-truth — a statement that is only partly true, especially one intended to deceive, evade blame, or the like.
- halfhourly — half-hour (def 3).
- han fei zu — died 233 bc, Chinese diplomat and philosopher of law
- hand cruft — (jargon) (After "hand craft") To write something by hand that would be better done automatically, e.g. writing assembly language instead of using a compiler (see hand hacking).
- handcuffed — Simple past tense and past participle of handcuff.
- harbourful — the amount that a harbour can hold
- hard stuff — strongly addictive drugs.
- hastefully — swiftness of motion; speed; celerity: He performed his task with great haste. They felt the need for haste.
- haua fteah — a cave site in Cyrenaica that has produced archaeological evidence of the longest sequence of human habitation in northern Africa, extending to about 80,000 years b.p.
- hausfrauen — a housewife.
- heartfully — In a heartful manner.
- hedge fund — a mutual fund organized as a limited partnership and using high-risk, speculative methods to obtain large profits.
- hounsfield — ˈGodfrey Newˌbold (ˈnuˌboʊld ) ; no̅oˈbōldˌ) 1919-2004; Brit. engineer & inventor: developed the CAT scanner
- house flag — a flag flown by a merchant ship, bearing the emblem of its owners or operators.
- houseflies — Plural form of housefly.
- housefront — the façade of a house
- housewifey — (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a housewife.
- humaniform — Like a human or that of a human in form, seeming, or appearance.
- humgruffin — a terrible or repulsive person