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12-letter words containing r, u, f

  • fault-finder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
  • favouredness — the quality of or extent to which something is favoured
  • feature film — full-length movie
  • featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
  • feeler gauge — a person or thing that feels.
  • fenfluramine — a sympathomimetic substance, C 12 H 16 F 3 N, formerly used mainly as an anorectic in the treatment of obesity but withdrawn from the market in 1997 because of its potential to cause valvular heart disease.
  • fergus falls — a city in W central Minnesota.
  • ferrofluidic — Of or pertaining to a ferrofluid.
  • ferroniobium — An important alloy of iron and niobium.
  • ferulic acid — a compound, C 10 H 10 O 4 , found in small amounts in lants, that occurs in two isomers, one a yellow oily liquid and the other crystalline.
  • feuchtwanger — Lion [lee-awn] /ˈli ɔn/ (Show IPA), 1884–1958, German novelist and dramatist.
  • fiber bundle — a flexible bundle of optical glass that transmits images.
  • fibrous root — a root, as in most grasses, having numerous, very fine branches of approximately the same length.
  • field circus — A derogatory pun on "field service". The field service organisation of any hardware manufacturer, but especially DEC. There is an entire genre of jokes about DEC field circus engineers: Q: How can you recognise a DEC field circus engineer with a flat tire? A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat. Q: How can you recognise a DEC field circus engineer who is out of gas? A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat. See Easter egging for additional insight on these jokes. There is also the "Field Circus Cheer" (from the plan file for DEC on MIT-AI): Maynard! Maynard! Don't mess with us! We're mean and we're tough! If you get us confused We'll screw up your stuff. (DEC's service HQ is located in Maynard, Massachusetts).
  • fifty-fourth — next after the fifty-third; being the ordinal number for 54.
  • figurability — the quality of being figurable
  • figuratively — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
  • figure eight — figure eight.
  • figure skate — a shoe skate used in figure skating, especially one having a blade shorter than that of a racing skate, usually not extending beyond the toe or heel, and with notches or sawteeth on the curved forward edge.
  • figure-skate — to take part in figure skating
  • figured bass — a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them indicating the chords to be played.
  • file request — 1. The FidoNet equivalent of FTP, in which one BBS system automatically dials another and snarfs one or more files. Often abbreviated "FReq"; files are often announced as being "available for FReq" in the same way that files are announced as being "available for/by anonymous FTP" on the Internet. 2. The act of getting a copy of a file by using the File Request option of the BBS mailer.
  • filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
  • filibusterer — A person who filibusters.
  • fillibusters — Plural form of fillibuster.
  • filthy lucre — money: to lose one's health for the sake of filthy lucre.
  • finno-ugrian — pertaining to the Finns and the Ugrians.
  • fire curtain — safety curtain.
  • fire support — support given by artillery and aircraft to infantry and armored vehicles.
  • firing squad — a military detachment assigned to execute a condemned person by shooting.
  • firmer gouge — a narrow-bladed gouge similar in manner of use to a firmer chisel.
  • first cousin — cousin (def 1).
  • first fruits — The first fruits of a project or activity are the earliest results or profits.
  • fish culture — the artificial propagation and breeding of fish.
  • five hundred — a variety of euchre in which a joker and widow are included, the object being to score 500 points first.
  • fixture list — a list of the games that a team is scheduled to play
  • flammiferous — flame-producing
  • flatterously — in a flatterous manner
  • flesh colour — of a yellowish-pink to yellowish-grey colour roughly that of the skin of a white person
  • fleur-de-lis — a heraldic device somewhat resembling three petals or floral segments of an iris tied by an encircling band.
  • fleur-de-lys — fleur-de-lis (defs 1, 2).
  • flickermouse — Alternative form of flittermouse.
  • flight nurse — a nurse in the U.S. Air Force who tends patients being transported by airplane.
  • flindermouse — (obsolete) A bat (the mammal).
  • flittermouse — bat2 (def 1).
  • float around — A rumour or idea that is floating around is often heard or talked about.
  • floriculture — the cultivation of flowers or flowering plants, especially for ornamental purposes.
  • flour beetle — any of several brown darkling beetles, especially of the genus Tribolium, that infest, breed in, feed on, and often pollute flour, stored grain, and other stored produce.
  • flour shaker — a container, often with a perforated top, from which flour is shaken
  • flour sifter — a container in which flour is sifted
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