12-letter words containing s, e, u
- fossil fuels — any combustible organic material, as oil, coal, or natural gas, derived from the remains of former life.
- four-corners — a point in the SW U.S., at the intersection of 37° N latitude and 109° W longitude, where the boundaries of four states—Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico—meet: the only such point in the U.S.
- four-flusher — a person who makes false or pretentious claims; bluffer.
- four-striper — a captain in the U.S. Navy.
- fourdriniers — Plural form of fourdrinier.
- fourfoldness — the quality of consisting of four parts
- fourses cake — a traditional English bread made with lard, dried fruit, and spices
- fox squirrel — any of several North American arboreal squirrels varying in color and of an exceptionally large size.
- frankfurters — Plural form of frankfurter.
- french sudan — former name of Mali.
- fresh out of — having just run out of supplies of
- frondiferous — Producing fronds.
- frontrunners — Plural form of frontrunner.
- fructiferous — fruit-bearing; producing fruit.
- fructosamine — (organic compound) A chemical compound that can be considered the result of a reaction between fructose and ammonia or an amine (with a molecule of water being released).
- fruit basket — a basket containing a variety of fruits sent as a gift
- fruitfulness — producing good results; beneficial; profitable: fruitful investigations.
- frustratedly — In a frustrated manner.
- fugitiveness — The quality of being fugitive; evanescence; volatility.
- fujita scale — a scale for expressing the intensity of a tornado, ranging from F0 (light damage) to F5 (incredible damage)
- fulfillments — Plural form of fulfillment.
- full-service — offering or providing a wide range of services related to the basic line of business, as when a filling station changes tires or makes car repairs in addition to selling gasoline.
- fulton sheen — Fulton (John) 1895–1979, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman, writer, and teacher.
- fumariaceous — belonging to the plant family Fumariaceae.
- functionless — Lacking a function.
- fundamentals — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
- fundusectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of the fundus of an organ, such as the uterus or the stomach.
- fungus stone — the Canadian tuckahoe, Polyporus tuberaster, an irregularly spherical mass of fungus mycelium and earth, forming a pseudosclerotium.
- funny papers — funny1 (def 7b).
- furfuraceous — of or containing bran.
- furnishments — Plural form of furnishment.
- fused quartz — glass made entirely from quartz: a form of silica glass.
- fused silica — glass made entirely from silica, having a very low rate of thermal expansion.
- future shock — physical and psychological disturbance caused by a person's inability to cope with very rapid social and technological change.
- future tense — grammar: will do, etc.
- fuzzy subset — In fuzzy logic, a fuzzy subset F of a set S is defined by a "membership function" which gives the degree of membership of each element of S belonging to F.
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- galeniferous — Of a mineral or deposit that contains galena.
- gallinaceous — pertaining to or resembling the domestic fowls.
- gamopetalous — having the petals united.
- gamosepalous — having the sepals united.
- gas equation — an equation that equates the product of the pressure and the volume of one mole of a gas to the product of its thermodynamic temperature and the gas constant. The equation is exact for an ideal gas and is a good approximation for real gases at low pressures
- gear cluster — an assembly of gears permanently attached to a shaft
- gelatigenous — (archaic) Producing or yielding gelatin.
- generousness — The quality of being generous; generosity.
- genioglossus — (anatomy) A muscle that runs from the mandible to the tongue.
- gentilitious — relating to a gens
- geopressured — subject to geostatic pressure.
- geraniaceous — belonging to the Geraniaceae, the geranium family of plants.
- gerontogeous — belonging to the Old World.