14-letter words containing f, u
- perfidiousness — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- picture-framer — a person or company whose job is to frame photographs, paintings etc
- pleasure craft — A pleasure craft is the same as a pleasure boat.
- polyfunctional — containing more than one functional group.
- 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.
- poultry farmer — a person who rears domestic fowls, esp chickens, for their eggs or meat
- pound of flesh — the soft substance of a human or other animal body, consisting of muscle and fat.
- preformulation — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- premanufacture — to manufacture in advance
- preunification — of the period before unification
- 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
- proximity fuze — a design for detonating a charge, as in a projectile, within a predesignated radius of a target.
- public affairs — (used with a plural verb) matters of general interest or concern, especially those dealing with current social or political issues.
- public officer — a person appointed or elected to a governmental post.
- public welfare — state aid to the poor
- purkinje fiber — any of the specialized cardiac muscle fibers forming a network in the ventricular walls that conduct electric impulses responsible for the contractions of the ventricles.
- purposefulness — having a purpose.
- quadratic form — a polynomial all of whose terms are of degree 2 in two or more variables, as 5 x 2 − 2 xy + 3 y 2 .
- qualifications — Plural form of qualification.
- quality factor — a property of ionizing radiations that affects their ability to cause biological effects. For weakly ionizing radiations such as gamma rays it has value 1 whilst for alpha rays it is about 20
- quantification — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
- 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
- quinquefoliate — (of leaves) having or consisting of five leaflets
- quizzification — mockery
- radiofrequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
- radium sulfate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous, radioactive solid, RaSO 4 , used chiefly in radiotherapy.
- rafferty rules — no rules at all
- rate of return — The rate of return on an investment is the amount of profit it makes, often shown as a percentage of the original investment.
- redear sunfish — a freshwater sunfish, Lepomis microlophos, of the lower Mississippi valley and southeastern states, having the gill cover margined with scarlet.
- reform judaism — Judaism as observed by Reform Jews.
- refugee status — the state of being a person who has fled from some danger or problem, esp political persecution, esp in a foreign country in the eyes of the law
- refund annuity — an annuity providing for a lump-sum payment or installment payments to the beneficiary for the amount remaining of the purchase price at the death of the annuitant.
- remanufacturer — a company or industry that engages in making an existing product new again
- respectfulness — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
- revenue tariff — a tariff or duty imposed on imports primarily to produce public revenue.
- revolving fund — any loan fund intended to be maintained by the repayment of past loans.
- robusta coffee — a coffee tree, Coffea canephora, native to western tropical Africa and cultivated in warm regions of the Old World.
- roll of honour — A roll of honour is a list of the names of people who are admired or respected for something they have done, such as doing very well in a sport or exam.
- route flapping — flapping router
- rufflette tape — a kind of heading tape for curtains
- ruhmkorff coil — induction coil.