12-letter words containing u, t, f
- delightfully — giving great pleasure or delight; highly pleasing: a delightful surprise.
- difficulties — the fact or condition of being difficult.
- diffusionist — the theory or principle that diffusion is the main force in cultural innovation and change.
- difunctional — Bifunctional.
- discomfiture — Archaic. defeat in battle; rout.
- disgustfully — in a disgustful manner
- distastefull — Archaic form of distasteful.
- double drift — a method of calculating wind direction and velocity by observing the direction of drift of an aircraft on two or more headings.
- double fault — (in tennis, squash, handball, etc.) two faults in succession, resulting in the loss of the point, the loss of the serve, or both.
- double first — a first in two subjects.
- doubtfulness — of uncertain outcome or result.
- draughtproof — That prevents the access of draughts.
- duty of care — the legal obligation to safeguard others from harm while they are in your care, using your services, or exposed to your activities
- duty officer — In the police or armed forces, a duty officer is an officer who is on duty at a particular time.
- dysfunctions — Plural form of dysfunction.
- east suffolk — a former administrative division of Suffolk county, in E England.
- effectuality — producing or capable of producing an intended effect; adequate.
- effectuating — Present participle of effectuate.
- effectuation — to bring about; effect.
- effiguration — a detailed and elaborate description of something
- effusiometer — an apparatus for determining rates of effusion of gases, usually used for measuring molecular weights
- eisteddfodau — Plural form of eisteddfod.
- electro-funk — a type of electronic music, originating in the 1980s, characterized by the use of synthesizers with a heavy rhythm and punctuated bass, often influenced by the genres of funk and hip-hop
- electrofluor — a transparent material that stores electrical energy and subsequently releases it as light
- equifinality — The property of being equifinal.
- equisetiform — having the form of equisetum
- eventfulness — The property of being eventful.
- exsufflation — (obsolete) A blast from beneath.
- exsufflicate — Empty, inflated, frivolous.
- factiousness — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
- factitiously — In a factitious manner.
- factor group — quotient group.
- factualities — of or relating to facts; concerning facts: factual accuracy.
- faithfullest — Superlative form of faithful.
- faithfulness — strict or thorough in the performance of duty: a faithful worker.
- 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.
- fan vaulting — a system of fan vaults.
- fasciculated — Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.
- 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
- fastidiously — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- fatigue duty — any of the mainly domestic duties performed by military personnel, esp as a punishment
- fatigue life — the number of applications of a given stress to which a sample of metal can be subjected before failing.
- fatty tissue — tissue with excessive accumulation of fat
- fault-finder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
- faultfinding — the act of pointing out faults, especially faults of a petty nature; carping.
- 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.
- feeding tube — nasogastric tubing
- felicitously — In a felicitous manner.