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12-letter words containing u, r, t

  • extramundane — Outside or beyond the physical world.
  • 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.
  • extrauterine — Existing, formed, or occurring outside the uterus.
  • exulceration — the process of ulceration
  • factor group — quotient group.
  • fall through — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
  • family court — court of domestic relations.
  • 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.
  • feature film — full-length movie
  • featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
  • feuchtwanger — Lion [lee-awn] /ˈli ɔn/ (Show IPA), 1884–1958, German novelist and dramatist.
  • fibrous root — a root, as in most grasses, having numerous, very fine branches of approximately the same length.
  • fifty-fourth — next after the fifty-third; being the ordinal number for 54.
  • 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.
  • figure eight — figure eight.
  • figure skate — a shoe skate used in figure skating, especially one having a blade shorter than that of a racing skate, usually not extending beyond the toe or heel, and with notches or sawteeth on the curved forward edge.
  • figure-skate — to take part in figure skating
  • 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.
  • fire curtain — safety curtain.
  • fire support — support given by artillery and aircraft to infantry and armored vehicles.
  • first cousin — cousin (def 1).
  • first fruits — The first fruits of a project or activity are the earliest results or profits.
  • fish culture — the artificial propagation and breeding of fish.
  • fixture list — a list of the games that a team is scheduled to play
  • flatterously — in a flatterous manner
  • flight nurse — a nurse in the U.S. Air Force who tends patients being transported by airplane.
  • 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 sifter — a container in which flour is sifted
  • 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
  • fluidextract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
  • 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.
  • fluorapatite — a crystalline mineral, Ca 5 (PO 4) 3 F, formed from hydroxyapatite in the presence of fluoride, that has a hardening effect on bones and teeth.
  • 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.
  • fluorimeters — Plural form of fluorimeter.
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