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

  • fuel injector — injector (def 2b).
  • full throttle — used in the phrase at full throttle, at full speed or with great intensity
  • full-strength — If a team or army is at full strength, all the members that it needs or usually has are present.
  • full-throated — A full-throated sound coming from someone's mouth, such as a shout or a laugh, is very loud.
  • half-quartern — a loaf having a weight, when baked, of 800 g
  • heart failure — a condition in which the heart fatally ceases to function.
  • hunting rifle — shotgun used to kill game
  • law of nature — an empirical truth of great generality, conceived of as a physical (but not a logical) necessity, and consequently licensing counterfactual conditionals
  • lighter fluid — a combustible fluid used in cigarette, cigar, and pipe lighters.
  • lucifer match — friction match.
  • masterfulness — The quality of being masterful.
  • metalliferous — containing or yielding metal.
  • miracle fruit — the berrylike fruit of either of two African shrubs, Synsepalum dulcificum or Thaumatococcus daniellii, that, when chewed, causes sour substances to taste sweet.
  • multiramified — having several branches or branchlike parts
  • neurofilament — (anatomy) A neurofibril.
  • nonfraudulent — Not fraudulent.
  • old favourite — If you refer to something as an old favourite, you mean that it has been in existence for a long time and everyone knows it or likes it.
  • out of kilter — If one thing is out of kilter with another, the first thing does not agree with or fit in with the second.
  • owl butterfly — any of several South American nymphalid butterflies of the genus Caligo, especially C. eurylochus, having a spot like an owl's eye on each hind wing.
  • parquet floor — flooring made of inlaid wood
  • perfunctorily — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • petroliferous — containing or yielding petroleum
  • platiniferous — platinum-bearing
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • reformulation — to formulate again.
  • refundability — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
  • reptiliferous — (of rocks, etc) yielding fossilized reptiles
  • return flight — a flight going back
  • 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).
  • robert fulton — Robert, 1765–1815, U.S. engineer and inventor: builder of the first profitable steamboat.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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-security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
  • small fortune — a large sum of money
  • soft shoulder — the unpaved edge of a road.
  • state funeral — a ceremonial funeral for a head of state, or other very important person
  • stoloniferous — producing or bearing stolons.
  • sulfate paper — paper made from sulfate pulp.
  • sulfite paper — paper made from sulfite pulp.
  • 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.
  • surface plate — Machinery. a flat plate used by machinists for testing surfaces that are to be made perfectly flat.
  • tetrafluoride — a fluoride containing four fluorine atoms.
  • transfusively — in a transfusive manner
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