13-letter words containing f, i, s, u, r
- semifurnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
- sigmund freud — Anna, 1895–1982, British psychoanalyst, born in Austria (daughter of Sigmund Freud).
- silver surfer — elderly internet user
- single-figure — relating to numbers below ten
- soundproofing — materials used to make something soundproof
- 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.
- southern fish — the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
- spinuliferous — relating to a spine or spines
- 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.
- staminiferous — bearing or having a stamen or stamens.
- stick out for — If you stick out for something, you keep demanding it and do not accept anything different or less.
- stoloniferous — producing or bearing stolons.
- strombuliform — in the shape of a coil
- stuffed shirt — a pompous, self-satisfied, and inflexible person.
- 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 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
- superfetation — the fertilization of an ovum in a female mammal already pregnant.
- 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.
- superterrific — more than terrific
- 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.
- surfing music — rock-'n'-roll music from California in the early 1960s, characterized by close treble harmonies and with lyrics emphasizing the exhilaration of surfing and beach life.
- swift current — a city in SW Saskatchewan, in S Canada.
- 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
- transfusional — of or relating to transfusion
- transfusively — in a transfusive manner
- trout fishing — angling to catch trout
- 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
- umbelliferous — bearing an umbel or umbels.
- underfinished — (of a farm animal) not having developed enough flesh
- understaffing — the condition of being understaffed or of lacking a number of employees
- undiversified — distinguished by various forms or by a variety of objects: diversified activity.
- unforeskinned — circumcised
- unmistrustful — not mistrustful
- unpersonified — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- unsuperficial — external or outward: a superficial resemblance.
- unthriftiness — the quality or condition of being unthrifty
- user-friendly — easy to use, operate, understand, etc.: the most user-friendly personal computer now on the market.
- visual foxpro — (database) A Microsoft database derived from Fox Software's FoxPRO.