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

  • fiesta taurina — fiesta de toros.
  • 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 insurance — insurance covering any loss or damage caused by fire.
  • first language — mother tongue
  • fishing ground — a part of a body of water where the fishing is usually good.
  • flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
  • fluoridization — to treat, impregnate, or affect with a fluoride.
  • 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.
  • fortuitousness — The quality of being fortuitous.
  • fortune cookie — a thin folded wafer containing a prediction or maxim printed on a slip of paper: often served as a dessert in Chinese restaurants.
  • fortunetelling — the act or practice of predicting the future.
  • forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
  • fountain grass — a perennial grass, Pennisetum setaceum, of Ethiopia, having bristly spikes, often rose-purple, grown as an ornamental.
  • four of a kind — a set of four cards of the same denominations.
  • framing square — a steel square usually having on its faces various tables and scales useful to the carpenter.
  • francois guise — François de Lorraine [frahn-swa duh law-ren] /frɑ̃ˈswa də lɔˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), 2nd Duc de, 1519–63, French general and statesman.
  • frequent flier — an airline passenger registered with a program that provides bonuses, as upgrades or free flights, based especially on distance traveled.
  • frequent-flier — designating or related to a program in which an airline awards points to customers for miles flown or for other approved expenditures and then redeems them for free air travel when sufficient points have been accumulated
  • 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 pudding — a frozen or chilled dessert mixture of rich custard, nuts or candied fruit, and sometimes liquor.
  • fructification — act of fructifying; the fruiting of a plant, fungus, etc.
  • function creep — the gradual widening of the use of a technology or system beyond the purpose for which it was originally intended, esp when this leads to potential invasion of privacy
  • fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
  • gamine haircut — a boyish or elfish hairstyle, esp on a woman
  • garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
  • garrison house — a style of early New England house in which the second floor projects beyond the first.
  • gaudi i cornet — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ɑnˈtɔ ni/ (Show IPA), 1852–1926, Spanish architect and designer.
  • gaussian curve — normal curve.
  • geiger counter — an instrument for detecting ionizing radiations, consisting of a gas-filled tube in which electric-current pulses are produced when the gas is ionized by radiation, and of a device to register these pulses: used chiefly to measure radioactivity.
  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • gender studies — subject: male and female roles
  • general public — people in general
  • generic markup — (text)   In computerised document preparation, a method of adding information to the text indicating the logical components of a document, such as paragraphs, headers or footnotes. SGML is an example of such a system. Specific instructions for layout of the text on the page do not appear in the markup.
  • gertrude stein — Gertrude, 1874–1946, U.S. author in France.
  • gewurztraminer — a type of white grape used in winemaking.
  • giganotosaurus — Any of several very large, carnivorous dinosaurs of the subfamily Giganotosaurinae, from the Cretaceous period.
  • glamourisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
  • glamourization — Alternative form of glamorization.
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • go around with — If you go around with a person or group of people, you regularly meet them and go to different places with them.
  • graduation day — the day on which the ceremony is held at which university or college degrees and diplomas are conferred
  • grand junction — a city in W Colorado.
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