10-letter words containing f, u
- offenceful — giving offence; offensive
- offputting — (uncommon) Alternative form of off-putting.
- old fustic — a large tropical American moraceous tree, Chlorophora tinctoria
- oleiferous — giving rise to oil, as certain seeds or hypha.
- omniferous — producing or consisting of all kinds of things
- ossiferous — containing bones, especially fossil bones: ossiferous caves and rock beds.
- our father — Lord's Prayer.
- out-relief — public relief administered to people residing in a poorhouse or similar institution.
- outfielder — one of the players, especially in baseball, stationed in the outfield.
- outfitters — Plural form of outfitter.
- outfitting — an assemblage of articles that equip a person for a particular task, role, trade, etc.: an explorer's outfit.
- outflanked — Simple past tense and past participle of outflank.
- outflowing — Flowing out.
- outperform — to surpass in excellence of performance; do better than: a new engine that outperforms the competition; a stock that outperformed all others.
- outqualify — (sports) To qualify in a higher position than another.
- outside of — the outer side, surface, or part; exterior: The outside of the house needs painting.
- over-focus — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- over-fussy — excessively busy with trifles; anxious or particular about petty details.
- overfavour — to favour too much
- overfulfil — to fulfil to a greater degree than required
- oxysulfide — a sulfide in which part of the sulfur is replaced by oxygen.
- page fault — (memory management) In a paged virtual memory system, an access to a page (block) of memory that is not currently mapped to physical memory. When a page fault occurs the operating system either fetches the page in from secondary storage (usually disk) if the access was legitimate or otherwise reports the access as illegal.
- paul flory — Paul John, 1910–85, U.S. chemist: pioneer in research on polymers; Nobel Prize 1974.
- pausefully — in a pauseful manner
- peacefully — characterized by peace; free from war, strife, commotion, violence, or disorder: a peaceful reign; a peaceful demonstration.
- perfidious — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- perforatus — a muscle that bends a digit
- persifleur — a person who is fond of persiflage
- persulfate — a salt of persulfuric acid, as potassium persulfate, K 2 S 2 O 5 or K 2 S 2 O 8 .
- petit four — a small teacake, variously frosted and decorated.
- piliferous — having or producing hair.
- pine bluff — a city in central Arkansas, on the Arkansas River.
- piscifauna — all the fishes that live in a particular place, time or habitat
- pitcherful — the amount held by a pitcher.
- platterful — a heaped plate or platter
- pluperfect — Grammar. perfect with respect to a point of reference in past time, as had done in He had done it when I came. designating a tense or other verb formation or construction with such meaning, as Latin portāveram “I had carried.”.
- plus-fours — Plus-fours are short wide trousers fastened below the knees which people used to wear when hunting or playing golf.
- poculiform — having the shape of a cup; cup-shaped.
- pomiferous — bearing pomes or pomelike fruits.
- poriferous — bearing or having pores.
- pot-au-feu — a dish of boiled meat and vegetables, the broth of which is usually served separately.
- powderpuff — a soft, feathery ball or pad, as of cotton or down, for applying powder to the skin.
- powerfully — having or exerting great power or force.
- prefecture — the office, jurisdiction, territory, or official residence of a prefect.
- prefixture — something used or added as a prefix
- prefulgent — more radiant than others
- prefuneral — the ceremonies for a dead person prior to burial or cremation; obsequies.
- prequalify — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
- pridefully — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- profluence — abundance