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13-letter words containing u, n, f

  • fluctuational — Of, pertaining to, or resulting from fluctuation(s).
  • flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
  • flunitrazepam — a powerful benzodiazepine sedative, C 16 H 12 FN 3 O 3 , that causes semiconsciousness and memory blackouts: has been implicated in date rapes and is illegal in the U.S.
  • fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
  • fluorocarbons — Plural form of fluorocarbon.
  • fluoroscoping — Present participle of fluoroscope.
  • flying circus — a squadron of airplanes operating together, especially any of several squadrons of famous World War I aviators.
  • flying column — (formerly) a force of troops equipped and organized to move swiftly and independently of a principal unit to which it is attached.
  • flying saucer — any of various disk-shaped objects allegedly seen flying at high speeds and altitudes, often with extreme changes in speed and direction, and thought by some to be manned by intelligent beings from outer space.
  • fn tunnelling — Fowler-Nordheim tunnelling
  • fold function — (programming)   In functional programming, fold or "reduce" is a kind of higher-order function that takes as arguments a function, an initial "accumulator" value and a data structure (often a list). In Haskell, the two flavours of fold for lists, called foldl and foldr are defined like this: foldl :: (a -> b -> a) -> a -> [b] -> a foldl f z [] = z foldl f z (x:xs) = foldl f (f z x) xs foldr :: (a -> b -> b) -> b -> [a] -> b foldr f z [] = z foldr f z (x:xs) = f x (foldr f z xs) In both cases, if the input list is empty, the result is the value of the accumulator, z. If not, foldl takes the head of the list, x, and returns the result of recursing on the tail of the list using (f z x) as the new z. foldr returns (f x q) where q is the result of recursing on the tail. The "l" and "r" in the names refer to the associativity of the application of f. Thus if f = (+) (the binary plus operator used as a function of two arguments), we have: foldl (+) 0 [1, 2, 3] = (((0 + 1) + 2) + 3 (applying + left associatively) and foldr (+) 0 [1, 2, 3] = 0 + (1 + (2 + 3)) (applying + right associatively). For +, this makes no difference but for an non-commutative operator it would.
  • fontainebleau — a town in N France, SE of Paris: famous palace, long a favorite residence of French kings; extensive forest.
  • food industry — the industry surrounding the production of food
  • fooling about — the act of speaking or acting in a playful, teasing, or jesting manner
  • foot-in-mouth — (of a statement) inappropriate, insensitive, or imprudent.
  • forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
  • foreconscious — the preconscious.
  • foregrounding — Present participle of foreground.
  • forgetfulness — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
  • fork luncheon — déjeuner à la fourchette.
  • forked tongue — lying or deceitful talk
  • form function — (jargon)   The shape of something designed. This term is currently (Feb 1998) in vogue among marketroids.
  • formularising — Present participle of formularise.
  • formularizing — Present participle of formularize.
  • fort duquesne — Abraham [a-bra-am] /a braˈam/ (Show IPA), 1610–88, French naval commander.
  • fort monmouth — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in E central New Jersey, SE of Red Bank; site of signal school.
  • fortitudinous — having or showing fortitude; marked by bravery or courage.
  • fortunateness — The quality of being fortunate; fortune; luck.
  • fortuneteller — a person who claims the ability to predict the future.
  • foul-smelling — having a very unpleasant smell
  • foundationary — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
  • foundry proof — a proof pulled for a final checking before printing plates are made.
  • fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
  • four horsemen — four riders on white, red, black, and pale horses symbolizing pestilence, war, famine, and death, respectively. Rev. 6:2–8.
  • four-wheeling — traveling in a vehicle using four-wheel drive.
  • fourpenny one — a blow, esp with the fist
  • fouta djallon — a highland pastoral region in West Africa, in central Guinea, also in Sierra Leone and Liberia. 30,000 sq. mi. (77,700 sq. km).
  • fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
  • fracture zone — a long, narrow rift on the ocean floor, separating areas of differing depth: where such a zone crosses a mid-ocean ridge, it displaces the ridge by faulting.
  • frelinghuysen — Frederick Theodore, 1817–85, U.S. statesman.
  • french guiana — an overseas department of France, on the NE coast of South America: formerly a French colony. 35,135 sq. mi. (91,000 sq. km). Capital: Cayenne.
  • french guinea — former name of Guinea.
  • frequentation — the practice of frequenting; habit of visiting often.
  • frequentative — noting or pertaining to a verb aspect expressing repetition of an action.
  • freudian slip — (in Freudian psychology) an inadvertent mistake in speech or writing that is thought to reveal a person's unconscious motives, wishes, or attitudes.
  • frightfulness — The quality of being frightful.
  • frivolousness — characterized by lack of seriousness or sense: frivolous conduct.
  • frontal gyrus — any of several convolutions on the outer surface of the frontal lobe of the cerebrum.
  • froude number — a dimensionless number used in hydrodynamics for model simulation of actual conditions
  • fruit farming — the practice of growing or farming fruit
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