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13-letter words containing r, u, n, o, f

  • floor furnace — a small self-contained furnace placed just below the floor of the space to be heated.
  • flourishingly — In a flourishing way; tending to succeed and grow.
  • flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
  • fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
  • fluorocarbons — Plural form of fluorocarbon.
  • fluoroscoping — Present participle of fluoroscope.
  • food industry — the industry surrounding the production of food
  • forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
  • foreconscious — the preconscious.
  • foregrounding — Present participle of foreground.
  • forgetfulness — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
  • fork luncheon — déjeuner à la fourchette.
  • forked tongue — lying or deceitful talk
  • form function — (jargon)   The shape of something designed. This term is currently (Feb 1998) in vogue among marketroids.
  • formularising — Present participle of formularise.
  • formularizing — Present participle of formularize.
  • fort duquesne — Abraham [a-bra-am] /a braˈam/ (Show IPA), 1610–88, French naval commander.
  • fort monmouth — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in E central New Jersey, SE of Red Bank; site of signal school.
  • fortitudinous — having or showing fortitude; marked by bravery or courage.
  • fortunateness — The quality of being fortunate; fortune; luck.
  • fortuneteller — a person who claims the ability to predict the future.
  • foundationary — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
  • foundry proof — a proof pulled for a final checking before printing plates are made.
  • four horsemen — four riders on white, red, black, and pale horses symbolizing pestilence, war, famine, and death, respectively. Rev. 6:2–8.
  • four-wheeling — traveling in a vehicle using four-wheel drive.
  • fourpenny one — a blow, esp with the fist
  • fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
  • fracture zone — a long, narrow rift on the ocean floor, separating areas of differing depth: where such a zone crosses a mid-ocean ridge, it displaces the ridge by faulting.
  • frequentation — the practice of frequenting; habit of visiting often.
  • frivolousness — characterized by lack of seriousness or sense: frivolous conduct.
  • frontal gyrus — any of several convolutions on the outer surface of the frontal lobe of the cerebrum.
  • froude number — a dimensionless number used in hydrodynamics for model simulation of actual conditions
  • fruiting body — an organ that produces spores; fructification.
  • frumentaceous — of the nature of or resembling wheat or other grain.
  • frumentarious — of or relating to wheat or a similar grain
  • fuel injector — injector (def 2b).
  • funambulatory — relating to tightrope-walking
  • function room — a room designated for official or formal social gatherings or ceremonies
  • function word — a word, as a preposition, article, auxiliary, or pronoun, that chiefly expresses grammatical relationships, has little semantic content of its own, and belongs to a small, closed class of words whose membership is relatively fixed (distinguished from content word).
  • functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
  • furaciousness — the quality of being furacious or thievish
  • garnetiferous — containing or yielding garnets.
  • geminiflorous — having flowers arranged in pairs.
  • granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
  • ground effect — the improvement to the aerodynamic qualities of a low-slung motor vehicle resulting from a cushion of air beneath it
  • gyrofrequency — the frequency of rotation of an electron or other charged particle in a magnetic field, directly proportional to the charge of the particle and to the field strength and inversely proportional to the mass of the particle.
  • half mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  • half-mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  • homofullerene — (chemistry) Any of various compounds formally derived from a fullerene by the insertion of a methylene group between adjacent carbon atoms.
  • hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
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