14-letter words containing f, o, r, s, u
- self-laudatory — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.
- self-righteous — confident of one's own righteousness, especially when smugly moralistic and intolerant of the opinions and behavior of others.
- sense of humor — finding things funny
- seventy-fourth — next after the seventy-third; being the ordinal number for 74.
- soft sculpture — sculpture principally in vinyl, canvas, or other flexible material reproducing objects of characteristically rigid construction, as an electric fan, a typewriter, a set of drums, or a bathtub, in forms having a malleable texture and a liquescent, somewhat deflated appearance.
- software house — a commercial organization that specializes in the production of computer software packages
- southern-fried — coated with flour, egg, and bread crumbs and fried in deep fat: Southern-fried chicken.
- square oneself — to make amends for damage, a wrong, hurt, etc. done by oneself to another
- stigmatiferous — (of a plant) having a stigma
- store of value — the function of money that enables goods and services to be paid for a considerable time after they have been acquired
- subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
- sulfinpyrazone — a substance, C 2 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 3 S, used in the treatment of chronic gout.
- sulfinyl group — the bivalent group >SO.
- sulfur dioxide — a colorless, nonflammable, water-soluble, suffocating gas, SO 2 , formed when sulfur burns: used chiefly in the manufacture of chemicals such as sulfuric acid, in preserving fruits and vegetables, and in bleaching, disinfecting, and fumigating.
- sulfurous acid — a colorless liquid, H 2 SO 3 , having a suffocating odor, obtained by dissolving sulfur dioxide in water, known mainly by its salts, which are sulfites: used chiefly in organic synthesis and as a bleach.
- sulfuryl group — the bivalent group, SO 2 , derived from sulfuric acid.
- sulphur-flower — a plant, Eriogonum umbellatum, of the buckwheat family, native to the western coast of the U.S., having leaves with white, woolly hairs on the underside and golden-yellow flowers.
- superconfident — very or extremely confident, overly confident
- superinfection — marked proliferation of a parasitic microorganism during antimicrobial treatment for another infection.
- superinflation — hyperinflation.
- surface worker — a person who works on or near the ground surface
- surface-to-air — (of a missile, message, etc.) capable of traveling from the surface of the earth to a target in the atmosphere.
- surfer's knobs — a tumorlike nodule below a surfer's knee or on the upper area of the foot, caused by pressure on the skin and tissue exerted by the surfboard.
- sweet woodruff — any of several plants belonging to the genus Asperula or Galium, of the madder family, as G. odoratum (sweet woodruff) a fragrant plant with small white flowers.
- tourist office — information centre for sightseers
- transfusionist — a medical professional who transfuses blood into someone
- trustification — the practice or process of forming a monopolistic system or trusts: the trustification of the oil business.
- turkish coffee — a strong, usually sweetened coffee, made by boiling the pulverized coffee beans.
- turn of events — If there is a particular turn of events, a particular series of things happen.
- turn of phrase — expression, wording
- un-resourceful — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.
- unprofessional — not professional; not pertaining to or characteristic of a profession.
- unremorsefully — in an unremorseful or impenitent manner
- unsatisfactory — not satisfactory; not satisfying or meeting one's demands; inadequate.
- upwards of sth — A quantity that is upwards of a particular number is more than that number.
- woman suffrage — the right of women to vote; female suffrage.
- women's refuge — a house where battered women and their children can go for protection from their oppressors
- worshipfulness — The state or condition of being worshipful; reverence.