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14-letter words containing s, t, u, f

  • face the music — an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.
  • factitiousness — The quality of being factitious.
  • family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
  • fasciculations — Plural form of fasciculation.
  • fastidiousness — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
  • feather duster — a brush for dusting, made of a bundle of large feathers attached to a short handle.
  • felicitousness — The state or condition of being felicitous.
  • fellow student — sb studying at same institution
  • fictitiousness — The state of being fictitious.
  • 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.
  • file signature — A magic number.
  • final solution — the Nazi program of annihilating the Jews of Europe during the Third Reich.
  • 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.
  • fire apparatus — equipment for extinguishing destructive fires.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • for the use of — If something is for the use of a particular person or group of people, it is for that person or group to use.
  • fortuitousness — The quality of being fortuitous.
  • foundationless — Without foundation; unfounded.
  • founder's type — special type cast by a type founder for hand composition, as opposed to type cast in a mechanical composing machine
  • fountain grass — a perennial grass, Pennisetum setaceum, of Ethiopia, having bristly spikes, often rose-purple, grown as an ornamental.
  • fragrant sumac — a sprawling shrub, Rhus aromatica, of the cashew family, native to eastern North America, having aromatic foliage and greenish-yellow flowers in small spikes.
  • fraudulentness — (rare) fraudulence.
  • french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
  • fresh out (of) — having just sold or used up the last one or part (of)
  • front of house — restaurant
  • 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 custard — a smooth-textured, soft, frozen-food product of whole milk, and sometimes cream, egg yolk, etc., sweetened and variously flavored, often served in an ice-cream cone.
  • fuller's earth — an absorbent clay, used especially for removing grease from fabrics, in fulling cloth, as a filter, and as a dusting powder.
  • function shift — a change in the syntactic function of a word, as when the noun mushroom is used as an intransitive verb
  • function space — a linear space, the elements of which are functions.
  • 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.
  • fused sentence — a written sequence of two or more main clauses that are not separated by a period or semicolon or joined by a conjunction.
  • fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
  • futtock shroud — any of several metal rods secured at their lower ends to a futtock band and at their upper ends to a futtock plate, connecting the lower mast to the topmast rigging.
  • 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
  • futures market — a market in which futures contracts in commodities are traded.
  • futuristically — of or relating to the future: a futuristic view of the world.
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