13-letter words containing o, u, t, f, s
- fourth estate — the journalistic profession or its members; the press.
- fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
- fractocumulus — low ragged slightly bulbous cloud, often appearing below nimbostratus clouds during rain
- fractostratus — low ragged layered cloud often appearing below nimbostratus clouds during rain
- freight house — a depot or storage place for freight.
- frontal gyrus — any of several convolutions on the outer surface of the frontal lobe of the cerebrum.
- frumentaceous — of the nature of or resembling wheat or other grain.
- frumentarious — of or relating to wheat or a similar grain
- functionalise — to make functional.
- functionalism — (usually initial capital letter) Chiefly Architecture, Furniture. a design movement evolved from several previous movements or schools in Europe in the early 20th century, advocating the design of buildings, furnishings, etc., as direct fulfillments of material requirements, as for shelter, repose, or the serving of food, with the construction, materials, and purpose clearly expressed or at least not denied, and with aesthetic effect derived chiefly from proportions and finish, purely decorative effects being excluded or greatly subordinated. the doctrines and practices associated with this movement. Compare rationalism (def 4).
- functionalist — a person who advocates, or works according to, the principles of functionalism.
- functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
- garnetiferous — containing or yielding garnets.
- genuflections — Plural form of genuflection.
- hash function — (programming) A hash coding function which assigns a data item distinguished by some "key" into one of a number of possible "hash buckets" in a hash table. The hash function is usually combined with another more precise function. For example a program might take a string of letters and put it in one of twenty six lists depending on its first letter. Ideally, a hash function should distribute items evenly between the buckets to reduce the number of hash collisions. If, for example, the strings were names beginning with "Mr.", "Miss" or "Mrs." then taking the first letter would be a very poor hash function because all names would hash the same.
- infostructure — The technical infrastructure supporting an information system.
- infructuously — in an infructuous or unfruitful manner; fruitlessly
- inns of court — (in England) the four private unincorporated societies in London that function as a law school and have the exclusive privilege of calling candidates to the English bar
- isle of youth — Isle of, an island in the Caribbean, a special municipality in S Cuba. 1182 sq. mi. (3060 sq. km).
- justification — a reason, fact, circumstance, or explanation that justifies or defends: His insulting you was ample justification for you to leave the party.
- justificatory — serving to justify; providing justification.
- liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
- loss function — (in decision theory) a function that expresses the loss incurred when a decision is made in terms of various factors.
- magnetiferous — (dated) Producing or conducting magnetism.
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- metafunctions — Plural form of metafunction.
- metalliferous — containing or yielding metal.
- nectariferous — producing nectar.
- noncolourfast — (of a fabric) having a colour that tends to fade when washed or worn
- noninfectious — (of a disease or disease-causing organism) not liable to be transmitted through the environment.
- off one's nut — a dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell.
- 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 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-stater — a visitor from another state of the U.S.: Many out-of-staters come to our summer music festival.
- outdo oneself — to do something better than one ever did before or thought one could do
- outperformers — Plural form of outperformer.
- passion fruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
- petroliferous — containing or yielding petroleum
- platiniferous — platinum-bearing
- post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
- profectitious — (of money or property) proceeding from a parent or derived from an ancestor
- quartziferous — consisting of or containing quartz: quartziferous rock.
- reptiliferous — (of rocks, etc) yielding fossilized reptiles
- rhesus factor — Rh factor.
- russification — Russianize (defs 1, 2).
- scout uniform — the uniform worn by the Scouts
- self-checkout — A self-checkout is a checkout where customers scan, pack and pay for their goods in a store without being served by a sales associate.
- self-conquest — the act or state of conquering or the state of being conquered; vanquishment.