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14-letter words containing r, u, f, i

  • distrustful of — suspicious of; having no confidence in
  • do-it-yourself — of or designed for construction or use by amateurs without special training: a do-it-yourself kit for building a radio.
  • door furniture — locks, handles, etc, designed for use on doors
  • drifting cloud — Japanese Uki Gumo. a novel (1887–89) by Shimei Futabatei.
  • drilling fluid — a fluid used in the process of drilling bore holes and oil wells, for instance drilling mud, water, and compressed air amongst others
  • eigenfrequency — One of the natural resonant frequencies of a system.
  • engine failure — failure to operate by the engine of an aircraft, car, or other vehicle
  • f distribution — a continuous distribution obtained from the ratio of two chi-square distributions and used esp to test the equality of the variances of two normally distributed variances
  • facinorousness — the quality of being facinorous
  • fairy bluebird — any fruit-eating passerine bird of the genus Irena, of the East Indies, the males of the several species being characteristically black below and purple-blue above.
  • family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
  • family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
  • fancy geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium domesticum, of southern Africa, having roundish clusters of large white, pink, or red flowers.
  • feature editor — a newspaper or magazine journalist who commissions and edits feature articles
  • feature writer — a newspaper or magazine journalist who writes feature articles
  • feeding ground — The feeding ground of a group of animals or birds, is the place where they find food and eat.
  • ferrozirconium — a ferroalloy containing up to 40 percent zirconium.
  • fertility cult — a religious cult devoted to the enhancement of the fertility of persons, plants, or animals, by means of rituals often associated with a particular deity.
  • fertility drug — a substance that enhances the ability to produce young.
  • fiduciary bond — a bond filed by a fiduciary administering an estate as surety.
  • field larkspur — a European plant, Consolida regalis, of the buttercup family, having sparse clusters of blue or violet-colored flowers and smooth fruit.
  • field mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
  • fiesta taurina — fiesta de toros.
  • fifth republic — the republic established in France in 1958, the successor to the Fourth Republic.
  • figurativeness — The property of being figurative.
  • figure skating — ice skating in which the skater traces intricate patterns on the ice.
  • figure-hugging — Figure-hugging clothes fit very close to the body of the person who is wearing them. Figure-hugging is usually used to describe clothes worn by women.
  • file signature — A magic number.
  • fine structure — a group of lines that are observed in the spectra of certain elements, as hydrogen, and that are caused by various couplings of the azimuthal quantum number and the angular momentum quantum number.
  • finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
  • fire apparatus — equipment for extinguishing destructive fires.
  • fire insurance — insurance covering any loss or damage caused by fire.
  • first language — mother tongue
  • first quartile — (in a frequency distribution) the smallest quartile; the twenty-fifth percentile; the value of the variable below which one quarter of the elements are located.
  • first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
  • fishing ground — a part of a body of water where the fishing is usually good.
  • flagelliferous — bearing a flagellum
  • 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.
  • fluid pressure — the pressure exerted by a fluid, directly proportional to the specific gravity at any point and to the height of the fluid above the point.
  • fluoboric acid — a clear, colorless liquid, HBF 4 , that ionizes abundantly in solution, used chiefly in the synthesis of fluoborates.
  • fluoridization — to treat, impregnate, or affect with a fluoride.
  • fluorochemical — a chemical compound containing fluorine.
  • flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
  • flying gurnard — any marine fish of the family Dactylopteridae, especially Dactylopterus volitans, having greatly enlarged, colorful pectoral fins that enable it to glide short distances through the air.
  • food colouring — substances used to impart colour to food
  • foraminiferous — Having small openings, or foramina.
  • forklift truck — vehicle for lifting heavy loads
  • formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
  • fortuitousness — The quality of being fortuitous.
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