13-letter words containing u, e, f
- fluorohydride — (inorganic chemistry) An compound formed by the addition of the elements of hydrogen fluoride.
- flutter wheel — a waterwheel at the bottom of a chute, turned by the falling water.
- flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
- flying saucer — any of various disk-shaped objects allegedly seen flying at high speeds and altitudes, often with extreme changes in speed and direction, and thought by some to be manned by intelligent beings from outer space.
- fn tunnelling — Fowler-Nordheim tunnelling
- focal seizure — an epileptic manifestation arising from a localized anomaly in the brain, as a small tumor or scar, and usually involving a single motor or sensory mechanism but occasionally spreading to other areas and causing convulsions and loss of consciousness.
- foldoc source — The source text of FOLDOC is a single plain text file. FOLDOC is also available on paper from your local printer but, at 700,000+ words, that would be about 2000 pages.
- fontainebleau — a town in N France, SE of Paris: famous palace, long a favorite residence of French kings; extensive forest.
- food security — an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.
- food supplies — food obtained for a household or for a country, an expedition, etc
- for values of — (jargon) A common rhetorical maneuver at MIT is to use any of the canonical random numbers as placeholders for variables. "The max function takes 42 arguments, for arbitrary values of 42". "There are 69 ways to leave your lover, for 69 = 50". This is especially likely when the speaker has uttered a random number and realises that it was not recognised as such, but even "non-random" numbers are occasionally used in this fashion. A related joke is that pi equals 3 - for small values of pi and large values of 3. This usage probably derives from the programming language MAD (Michigan Algorithm Decoder), an ALGOL-like language that was the most common choice among mainstream (non-hacker) users at MIT in the mid-1960s. It had a control structure FOR VALUES OF X = 3, 7, 99 DO ... that would repeat the indicated instructions for each value in the list (unlike the usual FOR that generates an arithmetic sequence of values). MAD is long extinct, but similar for-constructs still flourish (e.g. in Unix's shell languages).
- force majeure — an unexpected and disruptive event that may operate to excuse a party from a contract.
- forced labour — labour done because of force; compulsory labour
- forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
- foreconscious — the preconscious.
- foregrounding — Present participle of foreground.
- forgetfulness — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
- fork luncheon — déjeuner à la fourchette.
- forked tongue — lying or deceitful talk
- fort duquesne — Abraham [a-bra-am] /a braˈam/ (Show IPA), 1610–88, French naval commander.
- fort moultrie — William, 1730–1805, U.S. general.
- fortunateness — The quality of being fortunate; fortune; luck.
- fortuneteller — a person who claims the ability to predict the future.
- fossiliferous — bearing or containing fossils, as rocks or strata.
- foul-smelling — having a very unpleasant smell
- foul-tempered — frequently and unnecessarily sullen or angry
- fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
- four horsemen — four riders on white, red, black, and pale horses symbolizing pestilence, war, famine, and death, respectively. Rev. 6:2–8.
- four-wheeling — traveling in a vehicle using four-wheel drive.
- fourpenny one — a blow, esp with the fist
- foursome reel — a lively Scottish dance for two couples who combine in square and circular formations
- fourth estate — the journalistic profession or its members; the press.
- fourth-grader — a child in the fourth grade
- fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
- fracture zone — a long, narrow rift on the ocean floor, separating areas of differing depth: where such a zone crosses a mid-ocean ridge, it displaces the ridge by faulting.
- frederiksburg — borough on Zealand island, Denmark: suburb of Copenhagen: pop. 88,000
- freight house — a depot or storage place for freight.
- frelinghuysen — Frederick Theodore, 1817–85, U.S. statesman.
- french guiana — an overseas department of France, on the NE coast of South America: formerly a French colony. 35,135 sq. mi. (91,000 sq. km). Capital: Cayenne.
- french guinea — former name of Guinea.
- frequentation — the practice of frequenting; habit of visiting often.
- frequentative — noting or pertaining to a verb aspect expressing repetition of an action.
- freudian slip — (in Freudian psychology) an inadvertent mistake in speech or writing that is thought to reveal a person's unconscious motives, wishes, or attitudes.
- frightfulness — The quality of being frightful.
- frivolousness — characterized by lack of seriousness or sense: frivolous conduct.
- froude number — a dimensionless number used in hydrodynamics for model simulation of actual conditions
- fruit machine — gambling: slot machine
- fruitlessness — The quality of being fruitless.
- frumentaceous — of the nature of or resembling wheat or other grain.
- frumentarious — of or relating to wheat or a similar grain