14-letter words containing o, f, s, u
- factitiousness — The quality of being factitious.
- fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
- family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
- farmhouse loaf — a large white loaf, baked in a tin, with slightly curved sides and top
- fasciculations — Plural form of fasciculation.
- fastidiousness — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
- felicitousness — The state or condition of being felicitous.
- fellow student — sb studying at same institution
- fictitiousness — The state of being fictitious.
- fideicommissum — a request by a decedent that the heir or legatee to the estate convey a specified part of the estate to another person, or permit another person to enjoy such a part.
- field mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
- final solution — the Nazi program of annihilating the Jews of Europe during the Third Reich.
- fishing ground — a part of a body of water where the fishing is usually good.
- flagelliferous — bearing a flagellum
- flagitiousness — The state or quality of being flagitious.
- flesh-coloured — Something that is flesh-coloured is yellowish pink in colour.
- flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
- floriculturist — the cultivation of flowers or flowering plants, especially for ornamental purposes.
- flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
- 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.
- for the use of — If something is for the use of a particular person or group of people, it is for that person or group to use.
- foraminiferous — Having small openings, or foramina.
- fortuitousness — The quality of being fortuitous.
- foundationless — Without foundation; unfounded.
- founder's type — special type cast by a type founder for hand composition, as opposed to type cast in a mechanical composing machine
- fountain grass — a perennial grass, Pennisetum setaceum, of Ethiopia, having bristly spikes, often rose-purple, grown as an ornamental.
- four-eyed fish — a small, surface-swimming fish, Anableps anableps, inhabiting shallow, muddy streams of Mexico and Central America, having each eye divided, with the upper half adapted for seeing in air and the lower half for seeing in water.
- fourier series — an infinite series that involves linear combinations of sines and cosines and approximates a given function on a specified domain.
- fraise du bois — a wild strawberry.
- francois guise — François de Lorraine [frahn-swa duh law-ren] /frɑ̃ˈswa də lɔˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), 2nd Duc de, 1519–63, French general and statesman.
- fresh out (of) — having just sold or used up the last one or part (of)
- front of house — restaurant
- 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.
- frozen custard — a smooth-textured, soft, frozen-food product of whole milk, and sometimes cream, egg yolk, etc., sweetened and variously flavored, often served in an ice-cream cone.
- fulfil oneself — to achieve one's potential or desires
- full as a goog — drunk
- full professor — professor (def 1).
- 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.
- fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
- futtock shroud — any of several metal rods secured at their lower ends to a futtock band and at their upper ends to a futtock plate, connecting the lower mast to the topmast rigging.
- 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
- group of seven — G7.
- guest of honor — a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.
- gulf of alaska — the N part of the Pacific, between the Alaska Peninsula and the Alexander Archipelago