14-letter words containing u, s, t, a
- expostulations — Plural form of expostulation.
- exsanguination — The action of draining a person, animal, or organ of blood.
- extemporaneous — Spoken or done without preparation.
- extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
- extraforaneous — (nonce, archaic) outdoor.
- extraneousness — The state of being extraneous or inessential and irrelevant; extrinsic.
- face the music — an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.
- factitiousness — The quality of being factitious.
- family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
- fasciculations — Plural form of fasciculation.
- fastidiousness — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- feather duster — a brush for dusting, made of a bundle of large feathers attached to a short handle.
- 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.
- final solution — the Nazi program of annihilating the Jews of Europe during the Third Reich.
- fire apparatus — equipment for extinguishing destructive fires.
- first language — mother tongue
- first quartile — (in a frequency distribution) the smallest quartile; the twenty-fifth percentile; the value of the variable below which one quarter of the elements are located.
- flagitiousness — The state or quality of being flagitious.
- flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
- foundationless — Without foundation; unfounded.
- fountain grass — a perennial grass, Pennisetum setaceum, of Ethiopia, having bristly spikes, often rose-purple, grown as an ornamental.
- fragrant sumac — a sprawling shrub, Rhus aromatica, of the cashew family, native to eastern North America, having aromatic foliage and greenish-yellow flowers in small spikes.
- fraudulentness — (rare) fraudulence.
- french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
- frozen custard — a smooth-textured, soft, frozen-food product of whole milk, and sometimes cream, egg yolk, etc., sweetened and variously flavored, often served in an ice-cream cone.
- fuller's earth — an absorbent clay, used especially for removing grease from fabrics, in fulling cloth, as a filter, and as a dusting powder.
- 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.
- fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
- futuna islands — a group of islands in the SW Pacific Ocean belonging to the Wallis and Futuna Islands.
- futures market — a market in which futures contracts in commodities are traded.
- futuristically — of or relating to the future: a futuristic view of the world.
- galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
- garlic mustard — a plant, Alliaria petiolata, of N temperate regions, with small white flowers and an odour of garlic: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- gastroduodenal — of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum
- gastrovascular — serving for digestion and circulation, as a cavity.
- gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
- genuine assets — the tangible and intangible assets that make an organization unique, including things such as exclusive customer relationships, etc
- gesticulations — Plural form of gesticulation.
- get a guernsey — to be selected or gain recognition for something
- giganotosaurus — Any of several very large, carnivorous dinosaurs of the subfamily Giganotosaurinae, from the Cretaceous period.
- glamourisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
- glauber's salt — the decahydrate form of sodium sulfate, a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na 2 SO 4 ·10H 2 O, used chiefly in textile dyeing and as a cathartic.
- go gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- graduate nurse — a person who has graduated from an accredited school of nursing.