14-letter words containing f, e, r, o, u
- preunification — of the period before unification
- profit squeeze — a sharp narrowing of the gap between cost and revenue.
- proximity fuse — an electronically triggered device designed to detonate an explosive charge in a missile, etc, at a predetermined distance from the target
- proximity fuze — a design for detonating a charge, as in a projectile, within a predesignated radius of a target.
- public officer — a person appointed or elected to a governmental post.
- purposefulness — having a purpose.
- quinquefarious — consisting of or divided into five lines, sections, etc
- radiofrequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
- rate of return — The rate of return on an investment is the amount of profit it makes, often shown as a percentage of the original investment.
- reform judaism — Judaism as observed by Reform Jews.
- revolving fund — any loan fund intended to be maintained by the repayment of past loans.
- robusta coffee — a coffee tree, Coffea canephora, native to western tropical Africa and cultivated in warm regions of the Old World.
- route flapping — flapping router
- rule of eleven — the rule that when a player leads his or her fourth-highest card in any suit its numerical value subtracted from eleven gives the number of higher cards of that suit held by the other players.
- rules of order — the rules by which a legislative or deliberative assembly governs its proceedings; parliamentary law.
- sacchariferous — containing or yielding sugar.
- saxifragaceous — belonging to the plant family Saxifragaceae.
- scotch furnace — ore hearth.
- self-composure — calmness and self-possession
- self-forgetful — forgetful or not thinking of one's own advantage, interest, etc.
- self-laudatory — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.
- self-righteous — confident of one's own righteousness, especially when smugly moralistic and intolerant of the opinions and behavior of others.
- sense of humor — finding things funny
- seventy-fourth — next after the seventy-third; being the ordinal number for 74.
- soft sculpture — sculpture principally in vinyl, canvas, or other flexible material reproducing objects of characteristically rigid construction, as an electric fan, a typewriter, a set of drums, or a bathtub, in forms having a malleable texture and a liquescent, somewhat deflated appearance.
- software house — a commercial organization that specializes in the production of computer software packages
- southern-fried — coated with flour, egg, and bread crumbs and fried in deep fat: Southern-fried chicken.
- square oneself — to make amends for damage, a wrong, hurt, etc. done by oneself to another
- stigmatiferous — (of a plant) having a stigma
- store of value — the function of money that enables goods and services to be paid for a considerable time after they have been acquired
- subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
- sulfinpyrazone — a substance, C 2 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 3 S, used in the treatment of chronic gout.
- sulfur dioxide — a colorless, nonflammable, water-soluble, suffocating gas, SO 2 , formed when sulfur burns: used chiefly in the manufacture of chemicals such as sulfuric acid, in preserving fruits and vegetables, and in bleaching, disinfecting, and fumigating.
- sulphur-flower — a plant, Eriogonum umbellatum, of the buckwheat family, native to the western coast of the U.S., having leaves with white, woolly hairs on the underside and golden-yellow flowers.
- superconfident — very or extremely confident, overly confident
- superinfection — marked proliferation of a parasitic microorganism during antimicrobial treatment for another infection.
- superinflation — hyperinflation.
- surface worker — a person who works on or near the ground surface
- surface-to-air — (of a missile, message, etc.) capable of traveling from the surface of the earth to a target in the atmosphere.
- surfer's knobs — a tumorlike nodule below a surfer's knee or on the upper area of the foot, caused by pressure on the skin and tissue exerted by the surfboard.
- sweet woodruff — any of several plants belonging to the genus Asperula or Galium, of the madder family, as G. odoratum (sweet woodruff) a fragrant plant with small white flowers.
- the final four — the last four teams remaining in a tournament
- tin difluoride — stannous fluoride.
- to return fire — If you return fire or you return someone's fire, you shoot back at someone who has shot at you.
- torture flight — a flight used to carry out extraordinary rendition
- tour-de-france — a bicycle touring race, held over a period of 21 days: it covers about 2500 miles (4000 km) in France, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Switzerland.
- tourist office — information centre for sightseers
- truant officer — a school attendance officer whose job is to locate truants and return them to school
- trumpet flower — any of various plants with pendent flowers shaped like a trumpet.
- turbulent flow — the flow of a fluid past an object such that the velocity at any fixed point in the fluid varies irregularly.