13-letter words containing r, u, f
- disfiguration — an act or instance of disfiguring.
- disfigurement — an act or instance of disfiguring.
- disgracefully — In a disgraceful manner.
- disrespectful — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
- distressfully — In a distressful way; showing distress.
- distrustfully — In a distrustful manner.
- double-figure — double-digit.
- dress uniform — U.S. Air Force. a uniform consisting of the coat and trousers of the service uniform, with a white shirt and black bow tie, worn for formal occasions.
- dumfriesshire — Also called Dumfriesshire [duhm-frees-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈfrisˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in S Scotland.
- effortfulness — (psychology) subjective experience of exertion or effort involved in performing an activity.
- electric flux — the product of the electric displacement and the area across which it is displaced in an electric field
- equidifferent — equilateral; having differences that are equal
- faculty board — the governing body of a faculty
- faerie queene — a chivalric romance in verse (1590–96) by Edmund Spenser.
- fairy penguin — a small penguin, Eudyptula minor, with a bluish head and back, found on the Australian coast
- false bulrush — a tall reedlike marsh plant, Typha latifolia, with straplike leaves and flowers in long brown sausage-shaped spikes: family Typhaceae
- false colours — a flag to which one is not entitled, flown esp in order to deceive
- fantin-latour — (Ignace) Henri (Joseph Théodore) [ee-nyas ahn-ree zhaw-zef tey-aw-dawr] /iˈnyas ɑ̃ˈri ʒɔˈzɛf teɪ ɔˈdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1836–1904, French painter.
- fare-you-well — a state of perfection: The meal was done to a fare-thee-well.
- farm labourer — a person engaged in physical work on a farm
- farmer's lung — a lung disorder caused by inhalation of moldy hay dust, marked by shortness of breath, dry cough, and weight loss.
- father figure — a man embodying or seeming to embody the qualities of an idealized conception of the male parent, eliciting from others the emotional responses that a child typically has toward its father.
- fatigue party — a group of soldiers undertaking fatigues
- fatigue ratio — the ratio between the fatigue limit and the tensile strength of a material.
- fault breccia — angular rock fragments produced by fracture and grinding during faulting and distributed within or adjacent to the fault plane.
- fault current — A fault current is a current that results from a fault.
- feature creep — creeping featurism
- feature shock — (jargon) (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
- feature story — a newspaper or magazine article or report of a person, event, an aspect of a major event, or the like, often having a personal slant and written in an individual style. Compare follow-up (def 3b), hard news, news story.
- featurelessly — In a featureless way; without features.
- federal court — a court of a federal government, especially one established under the Constitution of the United States.
- felony murder — a killing treated as a murder because, though unintended, it occurred during the commission or attempted commission of a felony, as robbery.
- ferae naturae — (of animals) wild or undomesticated (distinguished from domitae naturae).
- fermentitious — of a fermenting nature
- ferociousness — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
- ferroaluminum — a ferroalloy containing up to 80 percent aluminum.
- ferrochromium — a ferroalloy containing up to 70 percent chromium.
- ferrotitanium — a ferroalloy containing up to 45 percent titanium.
- ferrotungsten — a ferroalloy containing up to 80 percent tungsten.
- ferrous oxide — a black powder, FeO, insoluble in water, soluble in acid.
- ferrovanadium — a ferroalloy containing up to 55 percent vanadium.
- fibromuscular — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to both fibrous and muscular tissue.
- fibrovascular — composed of fibrous and conductive tissue, as in the vascular systems of higher plants: a fibrovascular bundle.
- fiddle around — waste time doing sth trivial
- figure of fun — If you describe someone as a figure of fun, you mean that people think they are ridiculous.
- figure-ground — a property of perception in which there is a tendency to see parts of a visual field as solid, well-defined objects standing out against a less distinct background.
- figured glass — plate or sheet glass having a pattern rolled onto one side of the surface.
- filibustering — Present participle of filibuster.
- filibusterism — (dated) Piracy, freebooting; the waging of unauthorised war.
- filibusterous — resembling a filibuster or the actions of a filibuster