12-letter words containing s, u, l, f
- exsufflicate — Empty, inflated, frivolous.
- fabulousness — almost impossible to believe; incredible.
- facial scrub — a beauty product or treatment which cleanses and exfoliates the skin of the face
- factitiously — In a factitious manner.
- factualities — of or relating to facts; concerning facts: factual accuracy.
- faithfullest — Superlative form of faithful.
- faithfulness — strict or thorough in the performance of duty: a faithful worker.
- fallaciously — In a fallacious manner, erroneously, illogically.
- false cirrus — a type of thick cirrus cloud spreading from the top of a cumulonimbus cloud
- false colour — colour used in a computer or photographic display to help in interpreting the image, as in the use of red to show high temperatures and blue to show low temperatures in an infrared image converter
- fancifulness — The quality of being fanciful.
- fascicularly — in a fascicular manner
- fasciculated — Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.
- fastidiously — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- fauxmosexual — (slang) A heterosexual person who affects homosexual characteristics.
- felicitously — In a felicitous manner.
- felliniesque — referring to or reminiscent of the films of Federico Fellini
- fergus falls — a city in W central Minnesota.
- fictitiously — created, taken, or assumed for the sake of concealment; not genuine; false: fictitious names.
- field circus — A derogatory pun on "field service". The field service organisation of any hardware manufacturer, but especially DEC. There is an entire genre of jokes about DEC field circus engineers: Q: How can you recognise a DEC field circus engineer with a flat tire? A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat. Q: How can you recognise a DEC field circus engineer who is out of gas? A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat. See Easter egging for additional insight on these jokes. There is also the "Field Circus Cheer" (from the plan file for DEC on MIT-AI): Maynard! Maynard! Don't mess with us! We're mean and we're tough! If you get us confused We'll screw up your stuff. (DEC's service HQ is located in Maynard, Massachusetts).
- file request — 1. The FidoNet equivalent of FTP, in which one BBS system automatically dials another and snarfs one or more files. Often abbreviated "FReq"; files are often announced as being "available for FReq" in the same way that files are announced as being "available for/by anonymous FTP" on the Internet. 2. The act of getting a copy of a file by using the File Request option of the BBS mailer.
- filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
- filibusterer — A person who filibusters.
- fillibusters — Plural form of fillibuster.
- final clause — a clause expressing intention or purpose
- fish culture — the artificial propagation and breeding of fish.
- fissilingual — having a forked tongue
- fixture list — a list of the games that a team is scheduled to play
- flagitiously — In a flagitious manner.
- flammiferous — flame-producing
- flatterously — in a flatterous manner
- flesh colour — of a yellowish-pink to yellowish-grey colour roughly that of the skin of a white person
- fleur-de-lis — a heraldic device somewhat resembling three petals or floral segments of an iris tied by an encircling band.
- fleur-de-lys — fleur-de-lis (defs 1, 2).
- flexuousness — The state or condition of being flexuous.
- flickermouse — Alternative form of flittermouse.
- flight nurse — a nurse in the U.S. Air Force who tends patients being transported by airplane.
- flindermouse — (obsolete) A bat (the mammal).
- flittermouse — bat2 (def 1).
- flour shaker — a container, often with a perforated top, from which flour is shaken
- flour sifter — a container in which flour is sifted
- flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
- fluctuations — Plural form of fluctuation.
- fluid assets — assets that are in the form of cash or easily convertible into cash
- fluoresceine — Alternative spelling of fluorescein.
- fluorescence — the emission of radiation, especially of visible light, by a substance during exposure to external radiation, as light or x-rays. Compare phosphorescence (def 1).
- fluorescents — Plural form of fluorescent.
- fluorimeters — Plural form of fluorimeter.
- fluorometers — Plural form of fluorometer.
- fluoroscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoroscope.