14-letter words containing u, l, o
- fluorochemical — a chemical compound containing fluorine.
- flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
- focusing cloth — an opaque cloth surrounding the ground glass of a camera so as to shield the eyes of the photographer from light that would otherwise prevent seeing the image in the ground glass.
- follow through — the act of following.
- follow-through — the completion of a motion, as in the stroke of a tennis racket.
- follow-up call — a telephone call made as a follow-up to a letter, fax, meeting, etc
- follow-up care — care provided for a patient after medical or surgical treatment
- food colouring — substances used to impart colour to food
- forethoughtful — full of or having forethought; provident.
- forklift truck — vehicle for lifting heavy loads
- formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
- fortune-teller — a person who claims the ability to predict the future.
- fortunetelling — the act or practice of predicting the future.
- foundationally — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
- foundationless — Without foundation; unfounded.
- fountain plant — Joseph's-coat.
- fourfold block — a block having four pulleys or sheaves. Compare block (def 11).
- fourth of july — Independence Day.
- french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
- 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.
- fruit cocktail — an assortment of fruits cut into sections or pieces and served in a cup or a glass as an appetizer or dessert.
- fuel injection — the spraying of liquid fuel into the cylinders or combustion chambers of an engine.
- fulfil oneself — to achieve one's potential or desires
- full as a goog — drunk
- full professor — professor (def 1).
- full-fashioned — knitted to conform to the shape of a body part, as of the foot or leg: full-fashioned hosiery.
- full-flavoured — Full-flavoured food or wine has a pleasant fairly strong taste.
- functionalised — to make functional.
- functionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of functionalize.
- fundoplication — (surgery) An operation in which the gastric fundus (upper part) of the stomach is wrapped, or plicated, around the lower end of the esophagus and stitched in place, reinforcing the closing function of the lower esophageal sphincter. The esophageal hiatus is also narrowed down by sutures to prevent or treat concurrent hiatal hernia, in which the fundus slides up through the enlarged esophageal hiatus of the diaphragm.
- funeral parlor — A funeral parlor is the same as a funeral home.
- funnily enough — You use funnily enough to indicate that, although something is surprising, it is true or really happened.
- galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
- gallows humour — sinister and ironic humour
- galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
- gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
- gamma globulin — a protein fraction of blood plasma that responds to stimulation of antigens, as bacteria or viruses, by forming antibodies: administered therapeutically in the treatment of some viral diseases.
- gastroduodenal — of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum
- gastrovascular — serving for digestion and circulation, as a cavity.
- gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
- geolinguistics — the study of the geographical distribution of languages
- george pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
- gesticulations — Plural form of gesticulation.
- glamourisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
- glamourization — Alternative form of glamorization.
- glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
- global product — a commercial product that is marketed throughout the world under the same brand name
- glucocorticoid — any of a class of steroid hormones that are synthesized by the adrenal cortex of vertebrates and have anti-inflammatory activity.
- gluttonousness — The quality of being gluttonous.
- glyceryl group — the trivalent group (C 3 H 5)− 3 , derived from glycerol.