14-letter words containing u, f, o
- drifting cloud — Japanese Uki Gumo. a novel (1887–89) by Shimei Futabatei.
- dry rot fungus — a fungus, Merulius lacrymans, that causes a common type of dry rot.
- duckfoot quote — chevron-shaped quotation mark
- dumbfoundingly — In a dumbfounding manner.
- dutch reformed — of or relating to a Protestant denomination (Dutch Reformed Church) founded by Dutch settlers in New York in 1628 and renamed the Reformed Church in America in 1867.
- duty-free shop — airport: untaxed goods store
- earl of surrey — Earl of (Henry Howard) 1517?–47, English poet.
- emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
- excuse oneself — to ask that one's fault be overlooked; apologize
- extraforaneous — (nonce, archaic) outdoor.
- f distribution — a continuous distribution obtained from the ratio of two chi-square distributions and used esp to test the equality of the variances of two normally distributed variances
- facinorousness — the quality of being facinorous
- factitiousness — The quality of being factitious.
- factory outlet — a store that sells factory-made goods directly to consumers for less than current retail prices.
- faculty lounge — a staffroom
- fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
- fallopian tube — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
- family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
- fanum fortunae — ancient name of Fano.
- farmhouse loaf — a large white loaf, baked in a tin, with slightly curved sides and top
- fasciculations — Plural form of fasciculation.
- fastidiousness — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- fault tolerant — fault tolerance
- fault-tolerant — designed to return to a safe condition in the event of a failure or malfunction
- favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
- feature editor — a newspaper or magazine journalist who commissions and edits feature articles
- feeding ground — The feeding ground of a group of animals or birds, is the place where they find food and eat.
- felicitousness — The state or condition of being felicitous.
- fellow student — sb studying at same institution
- ferrozirconium — a ferroalloy containing up to 40 percent zirconium.
- fictitiousness — The state of being fictitious.
- fideicommissum — a request by a decedent that the heir or legatee to the estate convey a specified part of the estate to another person, or permit another person to enjoy such a part.
- fiduciary bond — a bond filed by a fiduciary administering an estate as surety.
- field mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
- final solution — the Nazi program of annihilating the Jews of Europe during the Third Reich.
- finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
- fishing ground — a part of a body of water where the fishing is usually good.
- flagelliferous — bearing a flagellum
- flagitiousness — The state or quality of being flagitious.
- flame-coloured — having a strong reddish-orange colour
- flannelmouthed — talking thickly, slowly, or haltingly.
- flat back four — a set of four fullbacks in line formation
- flesh-coloured — Something that is flesh-coloured is yellowish pink in colour.
- flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
- floating cloud — Drifting Cloud, The.
- floriculturist — the cultivation of flowers or flowering plants, especially for ornamental purposes.
- flower-de-luce — the iris flower or plant.
- fluid coupling — Machinery. an apparatus in which a fluid, usually oil, transmits torque from one shaft to another, producing an equal torque in the other shaft.
- fluoboric acid — a clear, colorless liquid, HBF 4 , that ionizes abundantly in solution, used chiefly in the synthesis of fluoborates.
- fluoridization — to treat, impregnate, or affect with a fluoride.