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Fucked Up
Fucked Up is a Canadian hardcore punk band from Toronto, formed in 2001, which won the 2009 Polaris Music Prize for its album The Chemistry of Common Life.
Fucktoys
Fucktoys is a 2025 American dark comedy and the directorial debut of Annapurna Sriram, who writes, directs, and stars as cursed sex worker AP questing for $1,000 and a lamb sacrifice in Trashtown; SXSW Special Jury Award winner, shot on Super 16mm.
Fucoidan
Fucoidan, also called fucoidin or sulfated fucan, is a sulfated fucose-rich polysaccharide from brown seaweeds like Fucus vesiculosus and Undaria pinnatifida, studied for antitumor, anticoagulant, and anti-inflammatory effects, with FDA GRAS no-questions letters (GRN 565, 661) but low oral bioavailability.
Fucose
Fucose is a deoxyhexose sugar, 6-deoxy-L-galactose, present in all domains of life: it appears on mammalian cell surfaces, makes up much of human milk oligosaccharides, and dominates fucoidan in brown seaweeds.
Fucosidosis
Fucosidosis (alpha-L-fucosidase deficiency, OMIM 230000) is an ultra-rare autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disease caused by FUCA1 mutations, with progressive neurodegeneration, coarse facies, angiokeratomas, and recurrent infections.
Fudai, Iwate
Fudai (普代村, Fudai-mura) is a village in Shimohei District, northern Iwate Prefecture, Japan, on the Sanriku coast. Known for its 15.5 m floodgate that repelled the 2011 tsunami; population about 2,293 (2025), fisheries-based economy.
Fudan University
Fudan University (复旦大学) is a comprehensive research university in Shanghai, China, founded in 1905 as Fudan Public School and ranked among the world's top universities.
Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center
Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center (复旦大学附属肿瘤医院, FUSCC), founded 1931 as the Sino-Belgian Radium Treatment Hospital, is China's earliest cancer-specialty hospital, a Grade III-A Fudan University affiliate in Shanghai ranked 3rd nationally in oncology.
Fudayl ibn Ghazwan al-Dabbi
Fudayl ibn Ghazwan al-Dabbi (فضيل بن غزوان الضبي) was a Kufan Sunni hadith transmitter, a client of the Dabba tribe, graded thiqa by most critics.
Fudayl ibn Iyad
Fudayl ibn Iyad (فضيل بن عياض) was an Arab hadith scholar and early Sufi ascetic who led brigands before repenting, studied in Kufa, and died in Mecca in 803.
Fuddle duddle
Fuddle duddle is a Canadian euphemism for "fuck" or "fuck off", coined by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in 1971 after he was accused of mouthing an obscenity in the House of Commons.
Fuddruckers
Fuddruckers is an American fast-casual burger chain founded by Phil Romano in San Antonio, Texas, known for fresh never-frozen beef, on-site baked buns, and a Build Your Own produce bar; now owned by Nicholas Perkins' Black Titan Franchise Systems since 2021.
Fudeng
Fudeng (福登), known as Miaofeng, was a Chinese Buddhist monk of the late Ming dynasty, renowned as a builder of monasteries, bridges, and bronze pavilions.
Fudge
Fudge: a soft, dense crystalline candy of sugar, butter, and milk or cream, usually chocolate-flavored, boiled to the soft-ball stage (234–238°F) and beaten as it cools; originated in 1880s America, tied to Vassar College and Mackinac Island, distinct from chocolate and Scottish tablet.
Fuding
Fuding (福鼎) is a county-level city in Ningde, Fujian Province, China, on the Zhejiang border, recognized as the birthplace and main production center of Fujian white tea.
Fudo Capital
Fudo Capital is CLSA Capital Partners' Asia-Pacific real estate private equity fund series, whose third fund closed at its USD 1 billion hard cap in 2015.
Fudō Myōō at Tō-ji
Fudō Myōō at Tō-ji (不動明王, Acala) are two national treasure wooden statues at Tō-ji in Kyoto: one completed in 839, one a secret Buddha never publicly shown.
Fudō Myōō of Jingo-ji
Fudō Myōō of Jingo-ji (不動明王) is the principal image of Jingo-ji temple's fire-ritual hall in Kyoto, long considered Edo-period until conservation showed it dates to the late Heian period.
Fudoki
Fudoki (風土記) are provincial gazetteers that Japan's central government ordered each province to compile in 713, recording place-name origins, products, soil fertility, and old traditions; only five survive substantially.
Fudong Han
Fudong Han is a battery and electrochemistry researcher and associate professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, known for showing that electronic conductivity in solid electrolytes causes lithium dendrite formation.
Fuecoco (ホゲータ)
Fuecoco (ホゲータ, Hogator), the Fire Croc Pokémon #0909, is the Fire-type Paldea starter of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, evolving into Crocalor at level 16 and the Fire/Ghost Skeledirge at 36; Roy's partner in Pokémon Horizons.
Fuel
A fuel is a material whose stored chemical energy is released as heat by combustion, powering buildings, electricity generation, and nearly all transport; examples include gasoline, natural gas, coal, biofuels, and hydrogen.
Fuel (band)
Fuel is an American post-grunge/alternative rock band formed in 1989, known for "Shimmer" and "Hemorrhage (In My Hands)"; platinum Sunburn and double-platinum Something Like Human; since 2021 led by Carl Bell and Kevin Miller.
Fuel (JID and Eminem song)
Fuel is a 2024 hip-hop song by Eminem featuring Atlanta rapper JID, their first collaboration, released July 12, 2024 as track nine on The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce); produced by Mr. Porter, it peaked at number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Fuel assembly
A fuel assembly is the bundle of sealed fuel rods, spacer grids, and guide tubes that forms the basic replaceable unit of fuel in a nuclear reactor core.
Fuel cell
A fuel cell is an electrochemical device that converts fuel, typically hydrogen, directly into electricity, producing water and heat; unlike a battery, it works as long as fuel is supplied.
Fuel cell cold start
Fuel cell cold start is the startup of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell from subfreezing temperatures, where product water can freeze inside the cell and block its operation.
Fuel cell range extender
A fuel cell range extender is a small hydrogen fuel cell, typically 30 to 80 kW, added to a battery-electric vehicle to recharge its battery and extend its driving range.
Fuel cell vehicle
A fuel cell vehicle, or fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV), is an electric vehicle that makes its own electricity onboard from hydrogen, emitting only water vapor.
Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking
The Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU) was a Brussels-based public-private partnership of the European Union, industry, and research groups that funded hydrogen and fuel cell technologies from 2008.