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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.
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