13-letter words containing n, o, t, u, r
- forgetfulness — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
- forked tongue — lying or deceitful talk
- form function — (jargon) The shape of something designed. This term is currently (Feb 1998) in vogue among marketroids.
- fort duquesne — Abraham [a-bra-am] /a braˈam/ (Show IPA), 1610–88, French naval commander.
- fort monmouth — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in E central New Jersey, SE of Red Bank; site of signal school.
- fortitudinous — having or showing fortitude; marked by bravery or courage.
- fortunateness — The quality of being fortunate; fortune; luck.
- fortuneteller — a person who claims the ability to predict the future.
- foundationary — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
- fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
- fracture zone — a long, narrow rift on the ocean floor, separating areas of differing depth: where such a zone crosses a mid-ocean ridge, it displaces the ridge by faulting.
- frequentation — the practice of frequenting; habit of visiting often.
- frontal gyrus — any of several convolutions on the outer surface of the frontal lobe of the cerebrum.
- fruiting body — an organ that produces spores; fructification.
- frumentaceous — of the nature of or resembling wheat or other grain.
- frumentarious — of or relating to wheat or a similar grain
- fuel injector — injector (def 2b).
- funambulatory — relating to tightrope-walking
- function room — a room designated for official or formal social gatherings or ceremonies
- function word — a word, as a preposition, article, auxiliary, or pronoun, that chiefly expresses grammatical relationships, has little semantic content of its own, and belongs to a small, closed class of words whose membership is relatively fixed (distinguished from content word).
- functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
- garnetiferous — containing or yielding garnets.
- gartner group — (company) One of the biggest IT industry research firms. Address: Connecticut, USA.
- gastrocnemius — the largest muscle in the calf of the leg, the action of which extends the foot, raises the heel, and assists in bending the knee.
- general court — the state legislature of Massachusetts or New Hampshire.
- genitourinary — of or relating to the genital and urinary organs; urogenital.
- get around to — When you get around to doing something that you have delayed doing or have been too busy to do, you finally do it.
- go great guns — to act or function with great speed, intensity, etc
- go the rounds — If a story, idea, or joke is going the rounds or doing the rounds, a lot of people have heard it and are telling it to other people.
- god's country — an area or region supposed to be favored by God, especially a naturally beautiful rural area.
- goodnaturedly — In a good-natured manner.
- grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- granulomatous — an inflammatory tumor or growth composed of granulation tissue.
- graticulation — the division of a design, plan, etc into squares in order to improve the accuracy of enlargement or reduction
- great council — (in Norman England) an assembly composed of the king's tenants in chief that served as the principal council of the realm and replaced the witenagemot.
- grotesqueness — odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.
- ground attack — an attack using ground forces, as opposed to air or naval forces
- ground beetle — any of numerous nocturnal, terrestrial beetles of the family Carabidae that feed chiefly on other insects.
- ground effect — the improvement to the aerodynamic qualities of a low-slung motor vehicle resulting from a cushion of air beneath it
- ground return — Ground return is the return path for an electrical circuit made by connections to ground at each end.
- ground stroke — a stroke made by hitting the ball after it has bounced from the ground. Compare volley (def 4b).
- ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
- ground troops — soldiers positioned on the ground
- ground-to-air — (of weapons) designed to be fired at aircraft from the ground
- groundnut oil — a mild-tasting oil extracted from peanuts and used in cooking
- groundstrokes — Plural form of groundstroke.
- group annuity — a plan in which the members of a group, usually employees of the same company, receive annuities upon retirement.
- group captain — an officer holding commissioned rank senior to a wing commander but junior to an air commodore in the RAF and certain other air forces
- gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
- gunpowder tea — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.