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13-letter words containing u, f, o

  • leg-of-mutton — having the triangular shape of a leg of mutton: leg-of-mutton sail; a dress with leg-of-mutton sleeves.
  • liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
  • liquification — Alternative form of liquefaction.
  • loft building — a building of several floors with large areas of unobstructed space, originally rented out for light industrial purposes and now frequently converted to residential occupancy.
  • long fin tuna — a tunny, Thunnus alalunga, occurring mainly in warm regions of the Atlantic and Pacific. It has very long pectoral fins and is a valued food fish
  • longsuffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
  • loss function — (in decision theory) a function that expresses the loss incurred when a decision is made in terms of various factors.
  • low frequency — any frequency between 30 and 300 kilohertz. Abbreviation: LF.
  • luminous flux — the rate of transmission of luminous energy: expressed in lumens.
  • lump of sugar — lump1 (def 4).
  • magnesiferous — (geology) Containing magnesium.
  • magnetiferous — (dated) Producing or conducting magnetism.
  • malfunctional — Not functioning as intended.
  • malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
  • mammaliferous — containing the remains of mammals
  • mandibuliform — Having the form of a mandible; - said especially of the maxill\u00e6 of an insect when hard and adapted for biting.
  • manganiferous — containing manganese.
  • manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
  • meadow fescue — a European fescue, Festuca pratensis, of the grass family, grown for pasture in North America.
  • mellifluously — sweetly or smoothly flowing; sweet-sounding: a mellifluous voice; mellifluous tones.
  • memo function — (programming)   (Or "memoised function") A function that remembers which arguments it has been called with and the result returned and, if called with the same arguments again, returns the result from its memory rather than recalculating it. Memo functions were invented by Professor Donald Michie of Edinburgh University. The idea was further developed by Robin Popplestone in his Pop2 language long before it was ever worked into LISP. This same principle is found at the hardware level in computer architectures which use a cache to store recently accessed memory locations. A Common Lisp package by Marty Hall <[email protected]> ftp://archive.cs.umbc.edu/pub/Memoization.
  • metafunctions — Plural form of metafunction.
  • metalliferous — containing or yielding metal.
  • misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
  • mother figure — a woman embodying or seeming to embody the qualities of an idealized conception of the female parent, eliciting from others the emotional responses that a child typically has toward its mother.
  • motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • multifactoral — Involving multiple factors.
  • multifunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
  • multiplatform — Compatible with or involving more than one type of computer or operating system.
  • mummification — to make (a dead body) into a mummy, as by embalming and drying.
  • mundification — the act of cleansing a wound
  • munroe effect — the reinforcement of shock waves in the concave, hollow end of a shaped charge, producing a greater resultant wave and concentrating the explosion along the axis of the charge.
  • nectariferous — producing nectar.
  • nefariousness — extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous: a nefarious plot.
  • neo-confucian — of or relating to an eclectic philosophical movement of the 12th to the 16th centuries, incorporating Taoist and Buddhist elements with an adaptation of Confucianism.
  • neuroeffector — The junction site, where a motor neuron releases a neurotransmitter to affect a target, that acts like an effector.
  • neurofeedback — The presentation of realtime feedback on brainwave activity, as measured by sensors on the scalp, sometimes offered as a means of therapy.
  • neurofibromas — Plural form of neurofibroma.
  • neurofilament — (anatomy) A neurofibril.
  • nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
  • ninety-fourth — next after the ninety-third; being the ordinal number for 94.
  • non-fiduciary — Law. a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.
  • noncolourfast — (of a fabric) having a colour that tends to fade when washed or worn
  • nonconiferous — Not coniferous.
  • nondiffusible — not diffusible
  • nonfigurative — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
  • nonforfeiture — Lack of forfeiture; failure to forfeit, or exemption from forfeiting.
  • nonfraudulent — Not fraudulent.
  • nonfulfilment — the event or act of a promise, threat, request, hope, duty, etc not happening
  • nonfunctional — Not having any particular purpose or function.
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