14-letter words containing t, r, o, u, f
- feature editor — a newspaper or magazine journalist who commissions and edits feature articles
- finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
- flat back four — a set of four fullbacks in line formation
- 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.
- fluoridization — to treat, impregnate, or affect with a fluoride.
- follow through — the act of following.
- follow-through — the completion of a motion, as in the stroke of a tennis racket.
- 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.
- forethoughtful — full of or having forethought; provident.
- forklift truck — vehicle for lifting heavy loads
- formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
- fortuitousness — The quality of being fortuitous.
- fortune cookie — a thin folded wafer containing a prediction or maxim printed on a slip of paper: often served as a dessert in Chinese restaurants.
- fortune hunter — a person who hopes to prosper, especially through marriage to someone of wealth.
- fortune-hunter — a person who hopes to prosper, especially through marriage to someone of wealth.
- fortune-teller — a person who claims the ability to predict the future.
- fortunetelling — the act or practice of predicting the future.
- founder effect — the accumulation of random genetic changes in an isolated population as a result of its proliferation from only a few parent colonizers.
- 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.
- four-four time — a form of simple quadruple time in which there are four crotchets to the bar, indicated by the time signature 44
- fourth of july — Independence Day.
- frenet formula — one of a set of formulas for finding the curvature and torsion of a plane or space curve in terms of vectors tangent or normal to the curve.
- 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 account — A frozen account is a bank account that cannot have money withdrawn from it, because of a court order.
- 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.
- frozen yoghurt — a dessert made from sweetened yoghurt that has been frozen
- fructification — act of fructifying; the fruiting of a plant, fungus, etc.
- fruit cocktail — an assortment of fruits cut into sections or pieces and served in a cup or a glass as an appetizer or dessert.
- function creep — the gradual widening of the use of a technology or system beyond the purpose for which it was originally intended, esp when this leads to potential invasion of privacy
- 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.
- gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
- give it up for — If an audience is asked to give it up for a performer, they are being asked to applaud.
- group of eight — the Group of Seven nations and Russia, whose heads of government meet to discuss economic matters and international relations
- group of three — Japan, US, and Germany (formerly West Germany), regarded as the largest industrialized nations
- guarantee form — a document that spells out the terms of a legally binding guarantee
- guest of honor — a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.
- ill-suited for — unsuitable for something
- inferior court — a court of limited jurisdiction
- interdiffusion — mutual diffusion of fluids
- isthmus of kra — an isthmus of SW Thailand, between the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Thailand: the narrowest part of the Malay Peninsula. Width: about 56 km (35 miles)
- make a fortune — win, earn a vast amount of money
- methoxyflurane — a potent substance, C 3 H 4 Cl 2 F 2 O, used as an analgesic in minor surgical procedures and less frequently as a general anesthetic.
- miniature golf — a game or amusement modeled on golf and played with a putter and golf ball, in which each very short, grassless “hole” constitutes an obstacle course, consisting of wooden alleys, tunnels, bridges, etc., through which the ball must be driven to hole it.
- mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- multifactorial — having or stemming from a number of different causes or influences: Some medical researchers regard cancer as a multifactorial disease.