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13-letter words containing f, a, u, r

  • sales figures — the amount of sales of something within a particular time frame
  • sargassumfish — an olive-brown and black frogfish, Histrio histrio, inhabiting tropical Atlantic and western Pacific seas among floating sargassum weed.
  • saturated fat — a type of single-bond animal or vegetable fat, as that found in butter, meat, egg yolks, and coconut or palm oil, that in humans tends to increase cholesterol levels in the blood. Compare saturated (def 3).
  • schadenfreude — satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
  • sea butterfly — any member of the gastropod order Pteropoda, shelled marine mollusks so called for their ability to swim using winglike extensions of the foot.
  • small fortune — a large sum of money
  • solar furnace — a furnace using sunlight concentrated by concave mirrors as the direct source of heat.
  • soupfin shark — a requiem shark, Galeorhinus zyopterus, inhabiting the Pacific Ocean, valued for its fins, which are used by the Chinese in the preparation of a soup, and for its liver, which is rich in vitamin A.
  • south african — of southern Africa.
  • spruce sawfly — any of several sawflies of the family Diprionidae, especially Diprion hercyniae (European spruce sawfly) the larvae of which feed on the foliage of spruce.
  • spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
  • staminiferous — bearing or having a stamen or stamens.
  • state funeral — a ceremonial funeral for a head of state, or other very important person
  • stuffed derma — kishke.
  • sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • sugar factory — a factory which refines sugar from organic sources into a form that can be used in cooking etc
  • sugar of lead — lead acetate.
  • sugar of milk — lactose.
  • sulfamerazine — a sulfa drug, C11H12N4O2S, a methyl derivative of sulfadiazine that is more rapidly absorbed
  • sulfapyridine — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 1 1 H 1 1 N 3 O 2 S, formerly used for infections caused by pneumococci, now used primarily for a particular dermatitis.
  • sulfate paper — paper made from sulfate pulp.
  • sulfite paper — paper made from sulfite pulp.
  • sulfuric acid — a clear, colorless to brownish, dense, oily, corrosive, water-miscible liquid, H 2 SO 4 , usually produced from sulfur dioxide: used chiefly in the manufacture of fertilizers, chemicals, explosives, and dyestuffs and in petroleum refining.
  • superfetation — the fertilization of an ovum in a female mammal already pregnant.
  • superficially — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • surf and turf — surf and turf.
  • surface noise — extraneous noise caused by physical wear or a physical flaw on a phonograph record or in a pickup system, rather than by a flaw in the equipment.
  • surface plate — Machinery. a flat plate used by machinists for testing surfaces that are to be made perfectly flat.
  • surface water — water found on the surface of the earth (not underground or in the atmosphere), for example in rivers, seas, lakes, reservoirs, etc
  • surface yeast — yeast that rises to the surface as froth during fermentation.
  • surface-layer — the thin layer of air adjacent to the earth's surface, usually considered to be less than 300 feet (91 meters) high.
  • tetrafluoride — a fluoride containing four fluorine atoms.
  • thurification — the act of incense-burning
  • to bear fruit — If the effort that you put into something or a particular way of doing something bears fruit, it is successful and produces good results.
  • trade figures — a record of how much a country has paid for goods which it has bought from other countries, compared with how much it has been paid for goods which it has sold to other countries
  • traffic court — a court that passes on alleged violations of traffic laws.
  • transfusional — of or relating to transfusion
  • transfusively — in a transfusive manner
  • trifunctional — pertaining to molecules that can react at three sites.
  • ultra-leftism — the beliefs of extremely left-wing political parties or groups
  • ultra-leftist — a person with extremely left-wing political views
  • ultrafamiliar — extremely familiar
  • ultrafeminine — pertaining to a woman or girl: feminine beauty; feminine dress.
  • ultrafiltrate — a liquid that has been passed through an ultrafilter.
  • ultrapowerful — extremely powerful
  • ultrararefied — extremely rarefied
  • umbraculiform — umbrella-shaped
  • umbrella leaf — a rare, large-leaved perennial herb, Diphylleia cymosa, of the southeastern U.S., having white flowers and small, blue berries.
  • uncomfortable — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
  • uncomfortably — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
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