15-letter words containing f, l, u, c
- soft-focus lens — a lens designed to produce an image that is uniformly very slightly out of focus: typically used for portrait work
- special feature — an article differing from the normal format and focusing on a particular topic
- specific volume — volume per unit mass; the reciprocal of density.
- stannic sulfide — a yellowish or brownish, water-insoluble powder, SnS 2 , usually used suspended in lacquer or varnish for gilding and bronzing metals, wood, paper, etc.; mosaic gold.
- sulfanilic acid — a grayish-white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, the para form of C 6 H 7 NO 3 S, used chiefly as an intermediate in the manufacture of dyes.
- sulfite process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an acid liquor consisting of sulfurous acid and a salt, usually calcium bisulfite.
- superficialness — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
- tentaculiferous — having tentacles
- tetrafunctional — pertaining to molecules or groups that can bond at four sites.
- the magic flute — an opera (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- ultracentrifuge — a high-speed centrifuge for subjecting sols or solutions to forces many times that of gravity and producing concentration differences depending on the weight of the micelle or molecule.
- ultramicrofiche — ultrafiche.
- unselfconscious — not self-conscious; without affectation or pretense: an unselfconscious manner.
- volunteer force — a group of unpaid workers
- vulgar fraction — common fraction.