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

  • preconfigured — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
  • prefiguration — the act of prefiguring.
  • prefigurement — to show or represent beforehand by a figure or type; foreshadow.
  • preformulated — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
  • prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • pressure-feed — a system in which the supply of material is maintained by applied pressure
  • profectitious — (of money or property) proceeding from a parent or derived from an ancestor
  • proliferously — by proliferation
  • pruning knife — a knife used for pruning
  • quadrifoliate — (botany) Having four leaves or leaflets.
  • quarter-final — A quarter-final is one of the four matches in a competition which decides which four players or teams will compete in the semi-final.
  • quarterfinals — Plural form of quarterfinal.
  • quartziferous — consisting of or containing quartz: quartziferous rock.
  • quasi-federal — pertaining to or of the nature of a union of states under a central government distinct from the individual governments of the separate states, as in federal government; federal system.
  • queue fourche — (of a lion) having a single tail divided in two partway along its length so as to have two complete ends.
  • reconfiguring — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
  • reformulation — to formulate again.
  • refundability — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
  • refurbishment — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
  • refuse a card — If you refuse a card, you do not allow someone's credit card to be used to pay a bill.
  • remanufacture — to refurbish (a used product) by renovating and reassembling its components: to remanufacture a vacuum cleaner.
  • renal failure — a condition in which the kidneys fail to function adequately
  • reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
  • reptiliferous — (of rocks, etc) yielding fossilized reptiles
  • resource fork — Macintosh file system
  • return flight — a flight going back
  • reunification — the process of unifying or uniting; union: the unification of the 13 original colonies.
  • reverse fault — a fault in which the rock above the fault plane is displaced upward relative to the rock below the fault plane (opposed to gravity fault).
  • rhesus factor — Rh factor.
  • robert fulton — Robert, 1765–1815, U.S. engineer and inventor: builder of the first profitable steamboat.
  • round of beef — round1 (def 35a).
  • rouse oneself — to become active or energetic
  • ruffed grouse — a North American grouse, Bonasa umbellus, having a tuft of black feathers on each side of the neck.
  • rule of three — the method of finding the fourth term in a proportion when three terms are given.
  • rule of thumb — a general or approximate principle, procedure, or rule based on experience or practice, as opposed to a specific, scientific calculation or estimate.
  • ruled surface — a surface that can be generated by a straight line, as a cylinder or cone.
  • rutherfordium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Rf; atomic number: 104.
  • sales figures — the amount of sales of something within a particular time frame
  • 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.
  • school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
  • 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.
  • security firm — a firm which provides guards for buildings, and other security services and personnel
  • self-coloured — of one color.
  • self-destruct — to destroy itself or oneself: The missile is built so that a malfunction will cause it to self-destruct.
  • self-distrust — lack of confidence in oneself, in one's abilities, etc.
  • self-exposure — the act of exposing, laying open, or uncovering: the sudden exposure of objects that were hidden under the blanket.
  • self-incurred — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
  • self-procured — to obtain or get by care, effort, or the use of special means: to procure evidence.
  • self-produced — produced by oneself or itself.
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