16-letter words containing u, n, f, d
- fund supermarket — an online facility offering discounted investment opportunities and advice
- fundamental bass — a bass consisting of the roots of the chords employed.
- fundamental star — one of a number of stars with positions that have been determined accurately and that are used as reference stars for the determination of positions of other celestial objects.
- fundamental unit — one of a set of unrelated units that form the basis of a system of units. For example, the metre, kilogram, and second are fundamental units of the SI system
- fundamentalistic — Fundamentalist.
- funeral director — a person, usually a licensed embalmer, who supervises or conducts the preparation of the dead for burial and directs or arranges funerals.
- golden handcuffs — payments deferred over a number of years that induce a person to stay with a particular company or in a particular job
- grace-and-favour — (of a house, flat, etc) owned by the sovereign and granted free of rent to a person to whom the sovereign wishes to express gratitude
- group identifier — (operating system) (gid) A unique number, between 0 an 32767, identifying a set of users under Unix. Gids are found in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group databases (or their NIS equivalents) and one is also associated with each file, indicating the group to which its group permissions apply.
- gulf of honduras — an inlet of the Caribbean, on the coasts of Honduras, Guatemala, and Belize
- gulf of liaodong — the N part of the Gulf of Chihli, west of the Liaodong Peninsula
- gulf of thailand — an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina
- headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
- huffman encoding — Huffman coding
- hydrogen sulfide — a colorless, flammable, water-soluble, cumulatively poisonous gas, H 2 S, having the odor of rotten eggs: used chiefly in the manufacture of chemicals, in metallurgy, and as a reagent in laboratory analysis.
- immunodeficiency — impairment of the immune response, predisposing to infection and certain malignancies.
- infant education — (in England and Wales) education provided for children at infant schools
- infinite product — a sequence of numbers in which an infinite number of terms are multiplied together.
- john of damascus — Saint, a.d. c675–749, priest, theologian, and scholar of the Eastern Church, born in Damascus.
- kingdom-of-nubia — a region in S Egypt and the Sudan, N of Khartoum, extending from the Nile to the Red Sea.
- line of latitude — an imaginary line on a globe, map, etc, indicating latitude
- mahmud of ghazni — a.d. 971?–1030, Muslim Amir of Ghazni 997–1030.
- manhood suffrage — the right of adult male citizens to vote
- manufactured gas — a gaseous fuel created from coal, oil, etc., as differentiated from natural gas.
- medium frequency — any frequency between 300 and 3000 kilohertz. Abbreviation: MF.
- month of sundays — a long time
- no-fault divorce — a divorce granted without anyone being found guilty of marital misconduct
- non-manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- of human bondage — a novel (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham.
- out of condition — If someone is out of condition, they are unhealthy and unfit, because they do not do enough exercise.
- out of your mind — If you say that someone is out of their mind, you mean that they are mad or very foolish.
- period furniture — furniture that was made during a particular period in time
- pseudoscientific — any of various methods, theories, or systems, as astrology, psychokinesis, or clairvoyance, considered as having no scientific basis.
- puddling-furnace — the act of a person or thing that puddles.
- radius of action — the maximum distance that a ship, aircraft, or land vehicle can travel from its base and return without refuelling
- refinery upgrade — A refinery upgrade is the process of introducing the newest technology in some parts of the refinery.
- self-constituted — constituted as such by oneself or itself
- self-destruction — the destruction or ruination of oneself or one's life.
- self-dissolution — the act or process of resolving or dissolving into parts or elements.
- self-liquidating — capable of being sold and converted into cash within a short period of time or before the date on which the supplier must be paid.
- self-reproducing — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- shoulder surfing — a form of credit-card fraud in which the perpetrator stands behind and looks over the shoulder of the victim as he or she withdraws money from an automated teller machine, memorizes the card details, and later steals the card
- south plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
- studentification — the renting of particular accommodation exclusively to students
- sulfocarbanilide — thiocarbanilide.
- superfecundation — the fertilization of two or more ova discharged at the same ovulation by successive acts of sexual intercourse.
- sutherland falls — a waterfall in New Zealand, on SW South Island. 1904 feet (580 meters) high.
- sutton coldfield — a town in central England, in Birmingham unitary authority, West Midlands; a residential suburb of Birmingham. Pop: 105 452 (2001)
- tequendama falls — a waterfall in central Colombia, on the Bogota River, SW of Bogota. 515 feet (157 meters) high.
- the four hundred — the most exclusive or affluent social clique in a particular place