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14-letter words containing u, n, f, r

  • fraudulentness — (rare) fraudulence.
  • free churchman — (sometimes initial capital letters) a member of a free church.
  • 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.
  • french cruller — cruller (def 2).
  • french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
  • french-cruller — a rich, light cake cut from a rolled dough and deep-fried, usually having a twisted oblong shape and sometimes topped with sugar or icing.
  • 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.
  • frequency band — band2 (def 9).
  • frequent flier — an airline passenger registered with a program that provides bonuses, as upgrades or free flights, based especially on distance traveled.
  • frequent flyer — a person who regularly makes air journeys
  • frequent-flier — designating or related to a program in which an airline awards points to customers for miles flown or for other approved expenditures and then redeems them for free air travel when sufficient points have been accumulated
  • front of house — restaurant
  • front side bus — (hardware)   (FSB) The bus via which a processor communicates with its RAM and chipset; one half of the Dual Independent Bus (the other half being the backside bus). The L2 cache is usually on the FSB, unless it is on the same chip as the processor [example?]. In PCI systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed. Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two main ways of overclocking processors.
  • frozen account — A frozen account is a bank account that cannot have money withdrawn from it, because of a court order.
  • frozen custard — a smooth-textured, soft, frozen-food product of whole milk, and sometimes cream, egg yolk, etc., sweetened and variously flavored, often served in an ice-cream cone.
  • frozen pudding — a frozen or chilled dessert mixture of rich custard, nuts or candied fruit, and sometimes liquor.
  • frozen yoghurt — a dessert made from sweetened yoghurt that has been frozen
  • fructification — act of fructifying; the fruiting of a plant, fungus, etc.
  • function creep — the gradual widening of the use of a technology or system beyond the purpose for which it was originally intended, esp when this leads to potential invasion of privacy
  • funeral parlor — A funeral parlor is the same as a funeral home.
  • fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
  • futurelessness — the state or quality of being futureless
  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • gene frequency — the frequency of occurrence of a particular allele in a population
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • group of seven — G7.
  • guarantee form — a document that spells out the terms of a legally binding guarantee
  • guard of honor — a guard specially designated for welcoming or escorting distinguished guests or for accompanying a casket in a military funeral.
  • guest of honor — a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.
  • gulf of anadyr — an inlet of the Bering Sea, off the coast of NE Russia
  • gulf of mannar — the part of the Indian Ocean between SE India and the island of Sri Lanka: pearl fishing
  • high frequency — the range of frequencies in the radio spectrum between 3 and 30 megahertz.
  • honours of war — the honours granted by the victorious to the defeated, esp as of marching out with all arms and flags flying
  • in full career — at full speed
  • in sb's favour — If someone makes a judgment in your favour, they say that you are right about something.
  • inference rule — (logic)   A procedure which combines known facts to produce ("infer") new facts. For example, given that 1. Socrates is a man and that 2. all men are motal, we can infer that Socrates is mortal. This uses the rule known as "modus ponens" which can be written in Boolean algebra as (A & A => B) => B (if proposition A is true, and A implies B, then B is true). Or given that, 1. Either Denis is programming or Denis is sad and 2. Denis is not sad, we can infer that Denis is programming. This rule can be written ((A OR B) & not B) => A (If either A is true or B is true (or both), and B is false, then A must be true). Compare syllogism.
  • inferior court — a court of limited jurisdiction
  • infopreneurial — of or relating to the manufacture or sales of electronic office or factory equipment designed to distribute information
  • infrastructure — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
  • injury benefit — money paid to someone who has sustained an injury
  • inquiry office — an office or department of a business, organization, etc, which deals with inquiries or requests for information
  • interdiffusion — mutual diffusion of fluids
  • interinfluence — to influence reciprocally or mutually
  • juan fernandez — a group of three islands in the S Pacific, 400 miles (645 km) W of and belonging to Chile: Alexander Selkirk, the alleged prototype of Robinson Crusoe, was marooned here 1704.
  • jungle warfare — the specialized techniques required by the military to survive and fight in jungle terrain
  • junior officer — an officer who is not in overall command of a military unit
  • kentucky fried — Southern-fried (def 1).
  • kentucky rifle — a long-barreled muzzleloading flintlock rifle developed near Lancaster, Pa., in the early 18th century and widely used on the frontier.
  • kidney failure — loss of renal function
  • leafcutter ant — any of various South American ants of the genus Atta that cut pieces of leaves and use them as fertilizer for the fungus on which they feed
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