14-letter words containing u, n, s, i, e
- fastidiousness — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- felicitousness — The state or condition of being felicitous.
- feng yu-hsiang — ("Christian General") 1880–1948, Chinese general.
- fictitiousness — The state of being fictitious.
- fiesta taurina — fiesta de toros.
- figurativeness — The property of being figurative.
- figure skating — ice skating in which the skater traces intricate patterns on the ice.
- file signature — A magic number.
- fine structure — a group of lines that are observed in the spectra of certain elements, as hydrogen, and that are caused by various couplings of the azimuthal quantum number and the angular momentum quantum number.
- fire insurance — insurance covering any loss or damage caused by fire.
- first language — mother tongue
- flagitiousness — The state or quality of being flagitious.
- flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
- foraminiferous — Having small openings, or foramina.
- fortuitousness — The quality of being fortuitous.
- foundationless — Without foundation; unfounded.
- framing square — a steel square usually having on its faces various tables and scales useful to the carpenter.
- francois guise — François de Lorraine [frahn-swa duh law-ren] /frɑ̃ˈswa də lɔˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), 2nd Duc de, 1519–63, French general and statesman.
- 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.
- fulfil oneself — to achieve one's potential or desires
- full-fashioned — knitted to conform to the shape of a body part, as of the foot or leg: full-fashioned hosiery.
- function space — a linear space, the elements of which are functions.
- functionalised — to make functional.
- fundamentalism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts, especially within American Protestantism and Islam.
- fundamentalist — an adherent of fundamentalism, a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts: radical fundamentalists.
- fungible issue — a bond issued by a company on the same terms as a bond previously issued by that company, although the redemption yield will probably be different
- funny business — improper or unethical conduct, as deception or trickery: He won't stand for any funny business here.
- fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
- gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
- garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
- garrison house — a style of early New England house in which the second floor projects beyond the first.
- gaussian curve — normal curve.
- gaussian image — the point in an optical system with spherical aberration at which the paraxial rays meet.
- gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
- gender studies — subject: male and female roles
- genuine assets — the tangible and intangible assets that make an organization unique, including things such as exclusive customer relationships, etc
- geolinguistics — the study of the geographical distribution of languages
- gertrude stein — Gertrude, 1874–1946, U.S. author in France.
- gesticulations — Plural form of gesticulation.
- giuseppe peano — (person, mathematics, logic) (1858-08-27 - 1932-04-20) An Italian mathematician who wrote over 200 books and papers, was a founder of mathematical logic and set theory and taught at the University of Turin. He contributed to mathematical analysis, logic, the teaching of calculus, differential equations, vector analysis and the axiomatization of mathematics. The standard axiomatization of the natural numbers is named Peano arithmetic or the Peano axioms after him. He also invented the Peano curve, an early example of a fractal.
- glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
- go up in smoke — the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance, especially the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood, peat, coal, or other organic matter.
- grand seigneur — a dignified or aristocratic man
- gratuitousness — The state or characteristic of being gratuitous.
- gregariousness — fond of the company of others; sociable.
- groundskeeping — The activity of tending an area of land for aesthetic or functional purposes; typically as an employee of a person or institution.
- grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
- gunstock stile — (in a door) a diminished stile having an oblique transition between the broader and narrower parts.
- gunter's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
- gynomonoecious — having both female and hermaphrodite flowers on the same plant.