20-letter words containing u, f, o

gentleman of fortune — an adventurer.
geoffrey of monmouth — 1100?–1154, English chronicler.
get one's finger out — to begin or speed up activity, esp after initial delay or slackness
godefroy de bouillon — c1060–1100, French crusader.
grand unified theory — a possible future quantum field theory that would encompass both the electroweak theory and quantum chromodynamics. Abbreviation: GUT.
gregory of nazianzus — Saint. ?329–89 ad, Cappadocian theologian: bishop of Caesarea (370–79). Feast days: Jan 2, 25, and 30
group life insurance — a form of life insurance available to members of a group, typically employees of a company, under a master policy.
group of twenty-four — a group of twenty-four rich and industrialized countries of the world, whose heads of government meet regularly to coordinate the position of developing countries on monetary and development issues
helmeted guinea fowl — the common guinea fowl in its wild state.
hexafluoroantimonate — (inorganic chemistry) The anion SbF6- or any salt containing this anion; it is used as an acidic catalyst in epoxide opening reactions.
house of assignation — a brothel.
houses of parliament — In Britain, the Houses of Parliament are the British parliament, which consists of two parts, the House of Commons and the House of Lords. The buildings where the British parliament does its work are also called the Houses of Parliament.
hurricane-force wind — a wind, not necessarily a hurricane, having a speed of more than 72 miles per hour (32 m/sec): the strongest of the winds.
hydrodesulfurization — desulfurization by catalytic agents of the sulfur-rich hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum or the like during cracking or hydrocracking.
ideal of pure reason — God, seen as an idea of pure reason unifying the personal soul with the cosmos.
ignatius (of) loyola — Saint(born Iñigo López de Recalde) (1491-1556); Sp. priest: founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit order): his day is July 31
in (or out of) gear — (not) connected to the motor
in (or out of) play — in (or not in) the condition for continuing play
in a state of nature — completely naked
in the lap of luxury — If you say that someone lives in the lap of luxury, you mean that they live in conditions of great comfort and wealth.
in the nature of sth — If you say that one thing is in the nature of another, you mean that it is like the other thing.
infectious hepatitis — hepatitis A.
inferior conjunction — the alignment of an inferior planet between the sun and the earth.
information builders — Distributors of LEVEL5 OBJECT. Telephone +1 800 969 INFO.
information industry — businesses that involve collecting and using information
instruction prefetch — (architecture) A technique which attempts to minimise the time a processor spends waiting for instructions to be fetched from memory. Instructions following the one currently being executed are loaded into a prefetch queue when the processor's external bus is otherwise idle. If the processor executes a branch instruction or receives an interrupt then the queue must be flushed and reloaded from the new address. Instruction prefetch is often combined with pipelining in an attempt to keep the pipeline busy. By 1995 most processors used prefetching, e.g. Motorola 680x0, Intel 80x86.
intestinal fortitude — courage; resoluteness; endurance; guts: to have intestinal fortitude.
isochronous transfer — isochronous
joint life insurance — life insurance covering two or more persons, the benefits of which are paid after the first person dies.
joule-thomson effect — the change of temperature that a gas exhibits during a throttling process, shown by passing the gas through a small aperture or porous plug into a region of low pressure.
junior featherweight — a boxer weighing up to 122 pounds (54.9 kg), between bantamweight and featherweight.
justice of the peace — a local public officer, usually having jurisdiction to try and determine minor civil and criminal cases and to hold preliminary examinations of persons accused of more serious crimes, and having authority to administer oaths, solemnize marriages, etc.
justifiable homicide — murder committed under extenuating circumstances
kentucky coffee tree — a tall North American tree, Gymnocladus dioica, of the legume family, the seeds of which (Kentucky coffee beans) were formerly used as a substitute for coffee beans.
knock out of the box — to make so many hits against (an opposing pitcher) as to cause the pitcher's removal
knock the tar out of — any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
land-office business — a lively, booming, expanding, or very profitable business.
laugh one's head off — Phrases such as laugh your head off and scream your head off can be used to emphasize that someone is laughing or screaming a lot or very loudly.
law of large numbers — the theorem in probability theory that the number of successes increases as the number of experiments increases and approximates the probability times the number of experiments for a large number of experiments.
law of superposition — Geology. a basic law of geochronology, stating that in any undisturbed sequence of rocks deposited in layers, the youngest layer is on top and the oldest on bottom, each layer being younger than the one beneath it and older than the one above it.
leg-of-mutton sleeve — a sleeve on a woman's garment that is loose on the arm but tight at the wrist
life-support machine — A life-support machine is the equipment that is used to keep a person alive when they are very ill and cannot breathe without help.
lighthouse coffeepot — a coffeepot of the late 17th and 18th centuries, having a tapering, circular body with a domed lid.
like a house on fire — If two people get on like a house on fire, they quickly become close friends, for example because they have many interests in common.
liturgy of the hours — a revision (promulgated in 1970) of the arrangement and texts of the Divine Office
logarithmic function — a function defined by y = log bx, especially when the base, b, is equal to e, the base of natural logarithms.
longitudinal framing — a system for framing steel vessels in which light, closely spaced, longitudinal frames are connected by heavy, widely spaced transverse frames with deep webs.
look before you leap — be aware of the risks involved in sth
make a monkey out of — any mammal of the order Primates, including the guenons, macaques, langurs, and capuchins, but excluding humans, the anthropoid apes, and, usually, the tarsier and prosimians. Compare New World monkey, Old World monkey.
mary, queen of scots — family name Stuart. 1542–87, queen of Scotland (1542–67); daughter of James V of Scotland and Mary of Guise. She was married to Francis II of France (1558–60), her cousin Lord Darnley (1565–67), and the Earl of Bothwell (1567–71), who was commonly regarded as Darnley's murderer. She was forced to abdicate in favour of her son (later James VI of Scotland) and fled to England. Imprisoned by Elizabeth I until 1587, she was beheaded for plotting against the English crown

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