12-letter words containing u, n, f, r
- country folk — people who live in the country
- country life — life in the country
- crowdfunding — Crowdfunding is when a large number of people each give an amount of money to pay for a project, especially by using a website to collect the money.
- crucifiction — Misspelling of crucifixion.
- crucifixions — Plural form of crucifixion.
- cuneiformist — a person who studies or deciphers cuneiform writing.
- currant loaf — a loaf-shaped fruit cake containing currants
- cybersurfing — The practice of using and browsing the Internet, especially as a habitual pastime.
- dame fortune — the personification of fortune as a woman
- dandrufflike — Resembling or characteristic of dandruff.
- de profundis — out of the depths of misery or dejection
- defraudation — (obsolete) The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud.
- dengue-fever — an infectious, eruptive fever of warm climates, usually epidemic, characterized especially by severe pains in the joints and muscles.
- dibenzofuran — an organic compound (C12H8O) composed of two benzene rings fused to a central furan ring
- dreadfulness — The characteristic of being dreadful.
- dreamfulness — the quality of being full of dreams
- effiguration — a detailed and elaborate description of something
- electro-funk — a type of electronic music, originating in the 1980s, characterized by the use of synthesizers with a heavy rhythm and punctuated bass, often influenced by the genres of funk and hip-hop
- fair housing — the sale and rental of private housing free of discriminatory practices or policies.
- fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
- fast neutron — a neutron produced by nuclear fission that has lost little energy by collision; a neutron with a kinetic energy in excess of 0.1 MeV
- fault-finder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
- favouredness — the quality of or extent to which something is favoured
- fenfluramine — a sympathomimetic substance, C 12 H 16 F 3 N, formerly used mainly as an anorectic in the treatment of obesity but withdrawn from the market in 1997 because of its potential to cause valvular heart disease.
- ferroniobium — An important alloy of iron and niobium.
- feuchtwanger — Lion [lee-awn] /ˈli ɔn/ (Show IPA), 1884–1958, German novelist and dramatist.
- fiber bundle — a flexible bundle of optical glass that transmits images.
- finno-ugrian — pertaining to the Finns and the Ugrians.
- fire curtain — safety curtain.
- firing squad — a military detachment assigned to execute a condemned person by shooting.
- first cousin — cousin (def 1).
- five hundred — a variety of euchre in which a joker and widow are included, the object being to score 500 points first.
- flight nurse — a nurse in the U.S. Air Force who tends patients being transported by airplane.
- flindermouse — (obsolete) A bat (the mammal).
- float around — A rumour or idea that is floating around is often heard or talked about.
- flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
- flow country — an area of moorland and peat bogs in northern Scotland known for its wildlife, now partly afforested
- fluoranthene — (organic compound) A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon consisting of a benzene ring attached to each of the rings of a naphthalene molecule; it is carcinogenic, and is a product of incomplete combustion.
- fluoresceine — Alternative spelling of fluorescein.
- fluorescence — the emission of radiation, especially of visible light, by a substance during exposure to external radiation, as light or x-rays. Compare phosphorescence (def 1).
- fluorescents — Plural form of fluorescent.
- fluoridating — Present participle of fluoridate.
- fluoridation — the addition of fluorides to the public water supply to reduce the incidence of tooth decay.
- fluorinating — Present participle of fluorinate.
- fluorination — (chemistry) The introduction of fluorine into a compound by means of a chemical reaction.
- fluorocarbon — any of a class of compounds produced by substituting fluorine for hydrogen in a hydrocarbon, and characterized by great chemical stability: used chiefly as a lubricant, refrigerant, fire extinguishing agent, and in industrial and other applications in which chemical, electrical, flame, and heat resistance is essential; banned as an aerosol propellant in the U.S. because of concern about ozone layer depletion.
- flusteration — (colloquial, dated) The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered.
- fluviomarine — of or formed by the combined action of river and sea.
- flying lemur — either of two lemurlike mammals, Cynocephalus variegatus, of southeastern Asia and the East Indies, or C. volans, of the Philippines, having broad folds of skin on both sides of the body to aid in gliding from tree to tree: now rare.
- folding rule — a rule composed of light strips of wood joined by rivets so as to be foldable, all the opening and closing parts being in parallel planes.