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14-letter words containing ou

  • flat back four — a set of four fullbacks in line formation
  • flesh-coloured — Something that is flesh-coloured is yellowish pink in colour.
  • floating cloud — Drifting Cloud, The.
  • fluid coupling — Machinery. an apparatus in which a fluid, usually oil, transmits torque from one shaft to another, producing an equal torque in the other shaft.
  • flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
  • follow through — the act of following.
  • follow-through — the completion of a motion, as in the stroke of a tennis racket.
  • food colouring — substances used to impart colour to food
  • foraminiferous — Having small openings, or foramina.
  • forethoughtful — full of or having forethought; provident.
  • fortuitousness — The quality of being fortuitous.
  • foundation day — former name of Australia Day.
  • foundationally — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
  • foundationless — Without foundation; unfounded.
  • founder effect — the accumulation of random genetic changes in an isolated population as a result of its proliferation from only a few parent colonizers.
  • founder member — A founder member of a club, group, or organization is one of the first members, often one who was involved in setting it up.
  • founder's type — special type cast by a type founder for hand composition, as opposed to type cast in a mechanical composing machine
  • fountain grass — a perennial grass, Pennisetum setaceum, of Ethiopia, having bristly spikes, often rose-purple, grown as an ornamental.
  • fountain plant — Joseph's-coat.
  • four of a kind — a set of four cards of the same denominations.
  • four-eyed fish — a small, surface-swimming fish, Anableps anableps, inhabiting shallow, muddy streams of Mexico and Central America, having each eye divided, with the upper half adapted for seeing in air and the lower half for seeing in water.
  • four-four time — a form of simple quadruple time in which there are four crotchets to the bar, indicated by the time signature 44
  • fourfold block — a block having four pulleys or sheaves. Compare block (def 11).
  • fourier series — an infinite series that involves linear combinations of sines and cosines and approximates a given function on a specified domain.
  • fourth of july — Independence Day.
  • fresh out (of) — having just sold or used up the last one or part (of)
  • front of house — restaurant
  • frozen account — A frozen account is a bank account that cannot have money withdrawn from it, because of a court order.
  • full-flavoured — Full-flavoured food or wine has a pleasant fairly strong taste.
  • funnily enough — You use funnily enough to indicate that, although something is surprising, it is true or really happened.
  • futtock shroud — any of several metal rods secured at their lower ends to a futtock band and at their upper ends to a futtock plate, connecting the lower mast to the topmast rigging.
  • galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
  • gallows humour — sinister and ironic humour
  • gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
  • garrison house — a style of early New England house in which the second floor projects beyond the first.
  • geiger counter — an instrument for detecting ionizing radiations, consisting of a gas-filled tube in which electric-current pulses are produced when the gas is ionized by radiation, and of a device to register these pulses: used chiefly to measure radioactivity.
  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • geosynchronous — of or relating to a satellite traveling in an orbit 22,300 miles (35,900 km) above the earth's equator: at this altitude, the satellite's period of rotation, 24 hours, matches the earth's and the satellite always remains in the same spot over the earth: geostationary orbit.
  • get the bounce — to dismiss or be dismissed from a job
  • get through to — reach: on phone
  • glamourisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
  • glamourization — Alternative form of glamorization.
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • gluttonousness — The quality of being gluttonous.
  • glyceryl group — the trivalent group (C 3 H 5)− 3 , derived from glycerol.
  • go around with — If you go around with a person or group of people, you regularly meet them and go to different places with them.
  • gouda (cheese) — a mild, semisoft to hard cheese similar to Edam and sometimes coated with red wax
  • gouldian finch — a multicoloured finch, Chloebia gouldiae, of tropical N Australia
  • grapple ground — an anchorage, especially for small vessels.
  • gratuitousness — The state or characteristic of being gratuitous.
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