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12-letter words containing u, r, l

  • euroterminal — a railway terminus from which trans-European trains operate
  • evolutionary — Of or relating to evolution.
  • exarticulate — (zoology) Having only one joint; said of certain insects.
  • exclusionary — restrictive or elitist
  • exclusive or — (logic)   (XOR, EOR) /X or, E or/ A two-input function whose result is true if one input is true and the other is false. The truth table is A | B | A xor B --+---+-------- F | F | F F | T | T T | F | T T | T | F The output is thus true if the inputs are not equal. If one input is false, the other is passed unchanged whereas if one input is true, the other is inverted. In Boolean algebra, exclusive or is often written as a plus in a circle: "⊕". The circle may be omitted suggesting addition modulo two. In digital logic, an exclusive or logic gate is drawn like a normal inclusive or gate but with a curved line across both inputs: {exclusive or gate " />.
  • extramurally — In an extramural manner.
  • extramusical — outside the field or scope of music
  • extraneously — In an extraneous manner.
  • extranuclear — situated or occurring in part of a cell outside the nucleus
  • extratextual — Outside of a text.
  • exulceration — the process of ulceration
  • facial scrub — a beauty product or treatment which cleanses and exfoliates the skin of the face
  • fall through — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
  • false cirrus — a type of thick cirrus cloud spreading from the top of a cumulonimbus cloud
  • false colour — colour used in a computer or photographic display to help in interpreting the image, as in the use of red to show high temperatures and blue to show low temperatures in an infrared image converter
  • family court — court of domestic relations.
  • fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
  • fascicularly — in a fascicular manner
  • fault-finder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
  • feature film — full-length movie
  • feeler gauge — a person or thing that feels.
  • 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— a sympathomimetic substance, C 12 H 16 F 3 N, formerly used mainly as an anorectic in the treatment of obesity but withdrawn from the market in 1997 because of its potential to cause valvular heart disease.
  • fergus falls — a city in W central Minnesota.
  • ferrofluidic — Of or pertaining to a ferrofluid.
  • ferulic acid — a compound, C 10 H 10 O 4 , found in small amounts in lants, that occurs in two isomers, one a yellow oily liquid and the other crystalline.
  • fiber bundle — a flexible bundle of optical glass that transmits images.
  • field circus — A derogatory pun on "field service". The field service organisation of any hardware manufacturer, but especially DEC. There is an entire genre of jokes about DEC field circus engineers: Q: How can you recognise a DEC field circus engineer with a flat tire? A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat. Q: How can you recognise a DEC field circus engineer who is out of gas? A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat. See Easter egging for additional insight on these jokes. There is also the "Field Circus Cheer" (from the plan file for DEC on MIT-AI): Maynard! Maynard! Don't mess with us! We're mean and we're tough! If you get us confused We'll screw up your stuff. (DEC's service HQ is located in Maynard, Massachusetts).
  • figurability — the quality of being figurable
  • figuratively — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
  • file request — 1. The FidoNet equivalent of FTP, in which one BBS system automatically dials another and snarfs one or more files. Often abbreviated "FReq"; files are often announced as being "available for FReq" in the same way that files are announced as being "available for/by anonymous FTP" on the Internet. 2. The act of getting a copy of a file by using the File Request option of the BBS mailer.
  • filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
  • filibusterer — A person who filibusters.
  • fillibusters — Plural form of fillibuster.
  • filthy lucre — money: to lose one's health for the sake of filthy lucre.
  • fish culture — the artificial propagation and breeding of fish.
  • fixture list — a list of the games that a team is scheduled to play
  • flammiferous — flame-producing
  • flatterously — in a flatterous manner
  • flesh colour — of a yellowish-pink to yellowish-grey colour roughly that of the skin of a white person
  • fleur-de-lis — a heraldic device somewhat resembling three petals or floral segments of an iris tied by an encircling band.
  • fleur-de-lys — fleur-de-lis (defs 1, 2).
  • flickermouse — Alternative form of flittermouse.
  • flight nurse — a nurse in the U.S. Air Force who tends patients being transported by airplane.
  • flindermouse — (obsolete) A bat (the mammal).
  • flittermouse — bat2 (def 1).
  • float around — A rumour or idea that is floating around is often heard or talked about.
  • floriculture — the cultivation of flowers or flowering plants, especially for ornamental purposes.
  • flour beetle — any of several brown darkling beetles, especially of the genus Tribolium, that infest, breed in, feed on, and often pollute flour, stored grain, and other stored produce.
  • flour shaker — a container, often with a perforated top, from which flour is shaken
  • flour sifter — a container in which flour is sifted
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