14-letter words containing i, n, s, u, f
- focusing cloth — an opaque cloth surrounding the ground glass of a camera so as to shield the eyes of the photographer from light that would otherwise prevent seeing the image in the ground glass.
- foraminiferous — Having small openings, or foramina.
- fortuitousness — The quality of being fortuitous.
- foundationless — Without foundation; unfounded.
- fountain grass — a perennial grass, Pennisetum setaceum, of Ethiopia, having bristly spikes, often rose-purple, grown as an ornamental.
- framing square — a steel square usually having on its faces various tables and scales useful to the carpenter.
- francois guise — François de Lorraine [frahn-swa duh law-ren] /frɑ̃ˈswa də lɔˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), 2nd Duc de, 1519–63, French general and statesman.
- 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.
- fulfil oneself — to achieve one's potential or desires
- full-fashioned — knitted to conform to the shape of a body part, as of the foot or leg: full-fashioned hosiery.
- function shift — a change in the syntactic function of a word, as when the noun mushroom is used as an intransitive verb
- function space — a linear space, the elements of which are functions.
- functionalised — to make functional.
- fundamentalism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts, especially within American Protestantism and Islam.
- fundamentalist — an adherent of fundamentalism, a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts: radical fundamentalists.
- fungible issue — a bond issued by a company on the same terms as a bond previously issued by that company, although the redemption yield will probably be different
- funny business — improper or unethical conduct, as deception or trickery: He won't stand for any funny business here.
- fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
- futuna islands — a group of islands in the SW Pacific Ocean belonging to the Wallis and Futuna Islands.
- gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
- gibbs function — the thermodynamic function of a system that is equal to its enthalpy minus the product of its absolute temperture and entropy: a decrease in the function is equal to the maximum amount of work available exclusive of that due to pressure times volume change during a reversible, isothermal, isobaric process.
- glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
- half-conscious — aware of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
- heat of fusion — the heat absorbed by a unit mass of a given solid at its melting point that completely converts the solid to a liquid at the same temperature: equal to the heat of solidification.
- in lieu of sth — If you do, get, or give one thing in lieu of another, you do, get, or give it instead of the other thing, because the two things are considered to have the same value or importance.
- in sb's favour — If someone makes a judgment in your favour, they say that you are right about something.
- in/out of step — If people who are walking or dancing are in step, they are moving their feet forward at exactly the same time as each other. If they are out of step, their feet are moving forward at different times.
- infectiousness — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.
- infelicitously — In a way that is infelicitous or unfortunate.
- infrastructure — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
- insightfulness — The state or condition of being insightful.
- insufficiently — not sufficient; lacking in what is necessary or required: an insufficient answer.
- interdiffusion — mutual diffusion of fluids
- intestinal flu — influenza with abdominal symptoms, as diarrhea or vomiting.
- justifications — Plural form of justification.
- life assurance — insurance: pays if holder dies
- life insurance — insurance providing for payment of a sum of money to a named beneficiary upon the death of the policyholder or to the policyholder if still living after reaching a specified age.
- lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
- long-suffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
- meaningfulness — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
- minucius felix — Marcus, Roman writer of the 2nd century a.d. whose dialogue Octavius is the earliest known work of Latin-Christian literature.
- minus infinity — The most negative value, not necessarily or even usually the simple negation of plus infinity. In N bit twos-complement arithmetic, infinity is 2^(N-1) - 1 but minus infinity is -(2^(N-1)), not -(2^(N-1) - 1).
- non-diffusible — capable of being diffused.
- non-fastidious — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- non-infectious — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.
- nonfilamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
- nuclear fusion — fusion (def 4).
- nullius filius — (especially in law) son of nobody; bastard.
- out of fashion — no longer popular
- perfidiousness — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.