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13-letter words containing f, i, r, l

  • self-security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
  • self-starting — starter (def 3).
  • self-steering — maintaining a course without constant human action
  • self-training — the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained: He's in training for the Olympics.
  • selling floor — floor (def 10).
  • service rifle — a rifle that is issued as standard to soldiers of an army or armed force
  • silver surfer — elderly internet user
  • simplificator — a person who simplifies matters
  • single father — a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • single-figure — relating to numbers below ten
  • slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
  • spadicifloral — having flowers borne on a spadix
  • special offer — bargain
  • spider flower — cleome
  • spinuliferous — relating to a spine or spines
  • splatter film — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
  • splendiferous — splendid; magnificent; fine.
  • 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.
  • stoloniferous — producing or bearing stolons.
  • storax family — the plant family Styracaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having simple, alternate leaves, clusters of bell-shaped white flowers, and fleshy or dry fruit, and including the silver bell, snowbell, and storax.
  • stress relief — Stress relief involves removing stresses in a material, usually by heating it to a temperature at which it can deform easily.
  • strombuliform — in the shape of a coil
  • 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.
  • sulfite paper — paper made from sulfite pulp.
  • sulfur spring — a spring the water of which contains naturally occurring sulfur compounds.
  • 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.
  • sunflower oil — oil obtained from sunflower seeds
  • superficially — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • superfluidity — a fluid that exhibits frictionless flow, very high heat conductivity, and other unusual physical properties, helium below 2.186 K being the only known example.
  • telescopiform — having body parts which resemble a telescope in that the retract within one another
  • tetrafluoride — a fluoride containing four fluorine atoms.
  • thalamifloral — relating to the Thalamiflorae
  • tortilla flat — a novel (1935) by John Steinbeck.
  • trading floor — stock exchange: room where trading is done
  • traffic light — a set of electrically operated signal lights used to direct or control traffic at intersections.
  • transfer list — In football, a transfer list is a list of players at a club who may be sold to other clubs.
  • transfusional — of or relating to transfusion
  • transfusively — in a transfusive manner
  • trifunctional — pertaining to molecules that can react at three sites.
  • triple figure — a number made up of three digits.
  • tropical fish — any of numerous small, usually brightly colored fishes, indigenous to the tropics, and often kept and bred in home aquariums.
  • tubuliflorous — having the corolla tubular in all the perfect flowers of a head, as certain composite plants.
  • 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.
  • ultrararefied — extremely rarefied
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