13-letter words containing u, n, t, r, f
- filibustering — Present participle of filibuster.
- film industry — all the companies, studios, people etc involved in making commercial films collectively
- final curtain — end of a theatre performance
- fine adjuster — (jargon, tool, humour) A tool used for percussive maintenance, also known as a "hammer".
- finger buffet — a buffet meal at which food that may be picked up with the fingers (finger food), such as canapés or vol-au-vents, is served
- finger puppet — a miniature puppet fitting over and manipulated by one finger.
- flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
- 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.
- food industry — the industry surrounding the production of food
- forgetfulness — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
- forked tongue — lying or deceitful talk
- form function — (jargon) The shape of something designed. This term is currently (Feb 1998) in vogue among marketroids.
- 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.
- foundationary — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
- 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.
- frequentation — the practice of frequenting; habit of visiting often.
- frequentative — noting or pertaining to a verb aspect expressing repetition of an action.
- frightfulness — The quality of being frightful.
- frontal gyrus — any of several convolutions on the outer surface of the frontal lobe of the cerebrum.
- fruit farming — the practice of growing or farming fruit
- fruit machine — gambling: slot machine
- fruiting body — an organ that produces spores; fructification.
- fruitlessness — The quality of being fruitless.
- frumentaceous — of the nature of or resembling wheat or other grain.
- frumentarious — of or relating to wheat or a similar grain
- frustratingly — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
- fuel injector — injector (def 2b).
- fuerteventura — a Spanish island off the NW coast of Africa, one of the Canary Islands. 641 sq. mi. (1660 sq. km).
- full-strength — If a team or army is at full strength, all the members that it needs or usually has are present.
- funambulatory — relating to tightrope-walking
- function room — a room designated for official or formal social gatherings or ceremonies
- function word — a word, as a preposition, article, auxiliary, or pronoun, that chiefly expresses grammatical relationships, has little semantic content of its own, and belongs to a small, closed class of words whose membership is relatively fixed (distinguished from content word).
- functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
- furniture van — a van designed to move the furniture of a house, office, etc, to another place
- furring strip — a strip of wood or metal fixed to a wall, floor, or ceiling to provide a surface for the fixing of plasterboard, floorboards, etc
- futilitarians — Plural form of futilitarian.
- garnetiferous — containing or yielding garnets.
- ground effect — the improvement to the aerodynamic qualities of a low-slung motor vehicle resulting from a cushion of air beneath it
- half-quartern — a loaf having a weight, when baked, of 800 g
- hunting rifle — shotgun used to kill game
- hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
- index futures — a form of financial futures based on projected movement of a share price index, such as the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Share Index
- infostructure — The technical infrastructure supporting an information system.