13-letter words containing f, u
- ninety-fourth — next after the ninety-third; being the ordinal number for 94.
- non-fiduciary — Law. a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.
- noncolourfast — (of a fabric) having a colour that tends to fade when washed or worn
- nonconiferous — Not coniferous.
- nondiffusible — not diffusible
- nonfigurative — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
- nonforfeiture — Lack of forfeiture; failure to forfeit, or exemption from forfeiting.
- nonfraudulent — Not fraudulent.
- nonfulfilment — the event or act of a promise, threat, request, hope, duty, etc not happening
- nonfunctional — Not having any particular purpose or function.
- noninfectious — (of a disease or disease-causing organism) not liable to be transmitted through the environment.
- nonmeaningful — Not meaningful.
- nonrefundable — an amount refunded.
- nonuniformity — (uncountable) The condition of being nonuniform.
- not much of a — If you describe something as not much of a particular type of thing, you mean that it is small or of poor quality.
- nuclear force — strong interaction
- nullification — an act or instance of nullifying.
- nurse-midwife — a nurse skilled in assisting women in the prenatal period and in childbirth, especially at home or in another nonhospital setting.
- oblique fault — a fault that runs obliquely to, rather than parallel to or perpendicular to, the strike of the affected rocks
- ocean sunfish — a brown and gray mola, Mola mola, inhabiting tropical and temperate seas, having the posterior half of the body sharply truncated behind the elongated dorsal and anal fins.
- odoriferously — In an odoriferous manner.
- oeil-de-boeuf — a comparatively small round or oval window, as in a frieze.
- off one's nut — a dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell.
- off soundings — in waters more than 100 fathoms in depth
- off with you! — go away! depart!
- off-side rule — A lexical convention due to Landin, allowing the scope of declarations in a program to be expressed by indentation. Any non-whitespace token to the left of the first such token on the previous line is taken to be the start of a new declaration. Used in, for example, Miranda and Haskell.
- office junior — a young person, esp a school-leaver, employed in an office for running errands and doing other minor jobs
- officiousness — objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome: an officious person.
- old favourite — If you refer to something as an old favourite, you mean that it has been in existence for a long time and everyone knows it or likes it.
- oligofluorene — (organic chemistry) Any of a class of aromatic polycyclic hydrocarbons consisting of several fluorene units attached end-to-end.
- on account of — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
- on course for — If you are on course for something, you are likely to achieve it.
- on sufferance — passive permission resulting from lack of interference; tolerance, especially of something wrong or illegal (usually preceded by on or by).
- onto function — Mathematics. a function from one set to a second set, the range of which is the entire second set.
- open fracture — compound fracture.
- out of action — If someone or something is out of action, they are injured or damaged and cannot work or be used.
- out of bounds — Sports. being beyond or passing the limits or boundaries of a field, course, etc., marking the area within which the ball, puck, or the like is legally in play.
- out of breath — the air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
- out of danger — no longer at risk
- out of humour — in a bad mood
- out of kilter — If one thing is out of kilter with another, the first thing does not agree with or fit in with the second.
- out of office — (of a government) out of power
- out of pocket — small enough or suitable for carrying in the pocket: a pocket watch.
- out of season — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
- out of square — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- out-of-bounds — Sports. being beyond or passing the limits or boundaries of a field, course, etc., marking the area within which the ball, puck, or the like is legally in play.
- out-of-pocket — paid out in cash or from one's own financial resources and sometimes reimbursed: My out-of-pocket travel expenses included taking business clients to dinner.
- out-of-stater — a visitor from another state of the U.S.: Many out-of-staters come to our summer music festival.
- out-of-towner — a visitor from another town or city: The World's Fair brought many out-of-towners to New Orleans.
- out-performed — to surpass in excellence of performance; do better than: a new engine that outperforms the competition; a stock that outperformed all others.