14-letter words containing s, l, u, f
- field mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
- file signature — A magic number.
- final solution — the Nazi program of annihilating the Jews of Europe during the Third Reich.
- first language — mother tongue
- first quartile — (in a frequency distribution) the smallest quartile; the twenty-fifth percentile; the value of the variable below which one quarter of the elements are located.
- first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
- flagelliferous — bearing a flagellum
- flagitiousness — The state or quality of being flagitious.
- flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
- flesh-coloured — Something that is flesh-coloured is yellowish pink in colour.
- flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
- floriculturist — the cultivation of flowers or flowering plants, especially for ornamental purposes.
- fluid dynamics — the branch of fluid mechanics dealing with the properties of fluids in motion.
- fluid pressure — the pressure exerted by a fluid, directly proportional to the specific gravity at any point and to the height of the fluid above the point.
- flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
- flying dustbin — petard (def 3).
- focusing cloth — an opaque cloth surrounding the ground glass of a camera so as to shield the eyes of the photographer from light that would otherwise prevent seeing the image in the ground glass.
- foundationless — Without foundation; unfounded.
- fraudulentness — (rare) fraudulence.
- fulfil oneself — to achieve one's potential or desires
- full as a goog — drunk
- full professor — professor (def 1).
- full-fashioned — knitted to conform to the shape of a body part, as of the foot or leg: full-fashioned hosiery.
- fuller's earth — an absorbent clay, used especially for removing grease from fabrics, in fulling cloth, as a filter, and as a dusting powder.
- functionalised — to make functional.
- fundamentalism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts, especially within American Protestantism and Islam.
- fundamentalist — an adherent of fundamentalism, a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts: radical fundamentalists.
- fungible issue — a bond issued by a company on the same terms as a bond previously issued by that company, although the redemption yield will probably be different
- futuna islands — a group of islands in the SW Pacific Ocean belonging to the Wallis and Futuna Islands.
- futurelessness — the state or quality of being futureless
- futuristically — of or relating to the future: a futuristic view of the world.
- gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
- glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
- gulf of alaska — the N part of the Pacific, between the Alaska Peninsula and the Alexander Archipelago
- half-conscious — aware of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
- half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
- hero's formula — the formula for the area of a triangle when the sides are given: for a triangle with sides a, b, and c, the area is equal to , where s is equal to one half the perimeter of the triangle.
- house of lords — the nonelective, upper house of the British Parliament, comprising the lords spiritual and lords temporal.
- hydrosulfurous — hyposulfurous.
- ill-suited for — unsuitable for something
- in lieu of sth — If you do, get, or give one thing in lieu of another, you do, get, or give it instead of the other thing, because the two things are considered to have the same value or importance.
- infelicitously — In a way that is infelicitous or unfortunate.
- insightfulness — The state or condition of being insightful.
- insufficiently — not sufficient; lacking in what is necessary or required: an insufficient answer.
- intestinal flu — influenza with abdominal symptoms, as diarrhea or vomiting.
- justifiability — capable of being justified; that can be shown to be or can be defended as being just, right, or warranted; defensible: justifiable homicide.
- kaieteur falls — a river in central Guyana: (Kaieteur Falls) one of highest waterfalls in the world at 741 feet (226 meters). 100 miles (161 km) long.
- kaieteur-falls — a river in central Guyana: (Kaieteur Falls) one of highest waterfalls in the world at 741 feet (226 meters). 100 miles (161 km) long.
- life assurance — insurance: pays if holder dies
- life insurance — insurance providing for payment of a sum of money to a named beneficiary upon the death of the policyholder or to the policyholder if still living after reaching a specified age.