13-letter words containing s, u, f
- counter shaft — A counter shaft is a shaft that runs parallel to the main shaft in a gearbox, and carries the pinion wheels.
- counter staff — people who work behind the counter of a bank, post office, etc
- counteroffers — Plural form of counteroffer.
- counterproofs — Plural form of counterproof.
- countershafts — Plural form of countershaft.
- crosscut file — a file having two intersecting rows of teeth
- crowd surfing — the practice of being passed over the top of a crowd of people such as an audience at a pop concert
- cuckooflowers — Plural form of cuckooflower.
- customer flow — Customer flow is the movement of customers around a store.
- death futures — life insurance policies of terminally ill people that are bought speculatively for a lump sum by a company, enabling it to collect the proceeds of the policies when the sufferers die
- deceitfulness — given to deceiving: A deceitful person cannot keep friends for long.
- deed of trust — a written instrument legally conveying property to a trustee, such as a bank, often for the purpose of securing a mortgage or promissory note.
- dehumidifiers — Plural form of dehumidifier.
- desulfuration — to desulfurize.
- difficultness — The state or quality of being difficult.
- diffusibility — capable of being diffused.
- diffusiveness — The state or quality of being diffusive.
- disaster fund — a fund set up to relieve people or countries afflicted by a disaster
- discontentful — exhibiting a lack of contentment
- disfiguration — an act or instance of disfiguring.
- disfigurement — an act or instance of disfiguring.
- disfunctional — dysfunction.
- disgracefully — In a disgraceful manner.
- disqualifying — Present participle of disqualify.
- disrespectful — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
- distastefully — In a distasteful manner.
- distressfully — In a distressful way; showing distress.
- distrustfully — In a distrustful manner.
- dress uniform — U.S. Air Force. a uniform consisting of the coat and trousers of the service uniform, with a white shirt and black bow tie, worn for formal occasions.
- duff's device — The most dramatic use yet seen of fall through in C, invented by Tom Duff when he was at Lucasfilm. Trying to bum all the instructions he could out of an inner loop that copied data serially onto an output port, he decided to unroll it. He then realised that the unrolled version could be implemented by *interlacing* the structures of a switch and a loop: register n = (count + 7) / 8; /* count > 0 assumed */ switch (count % 8) { case 0: do { *to = *from++; case 7: *to = *from++; case 6: *to = *from++; case 5: *to = *from++; case 4: *to = *from++; case 3: *to = *from++; case 2: *to = *from++; case 1: *to = *from++; } while (--n > 0); } Shocking though it appears to all who encounter it for the first time, the device is actually perfectly valid, legal C. C's default fall through in case statements has long been its most controversial single feature; Duff observed that "This code forms some sort of argument in that debate, but I'm not sure whether it's for or against."
- dumfriesshire — Also called Dumfriesshire [duhm-frees-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈfrisˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in S Scotland.
- dysfunctional — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
- effectualness — The state or condition of being effectual.
- efficaciously — capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy, etc.: The medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough.
- effortfulness — (psychology) subjective experience of exertion or effort involved in performing an activity.
- facetiousness — (uncountable) The state of being facetious.
- facial tissue — a soft, disposable paper tissue especially for cleansing the face or for use as a handkerchief.
- false bulrush — a tall reedlike marsh plant, Typha latifolia, with straplike leaves and flowers in long brown sausage-shaped spikes: family Typhaceae
- false colours — a flag to which one is not entitled, flown esp in order to deceive
- family values — belief in traditional family unit
- fantabulously — In a fantabulous manner; fantastically, wonderfully.
- farmer's lung — a lung disorder caused by inhalation of moldy hay dust, marked by shortness of breath, dry cough, and weight loss.
- fasciculation — a fascicular condition.
- fashion house — an establishment in which fashionable clothes are designed, made, and sold
- faultlessness — The quality of being faultless; the absence of faults.
- faunistically — in a faunistic manner
- feature shock — (jargon) (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
- feature story — a newspaper or magazine article or report of a person, event, an aspect of a major event, or the like, often having a personal slant and written in an individual style. Compare follow-up (def 3b), hard news, news story.
- featurelessly — In a featureless way; without features.
- feloniousness — The quality of being felonious.