12-letter words containing f, o, u, r, s
- purposefully — having a purpose.
- push forward — keep advancing
- pyritiferous — having or producing pyrites
- pyrosulfuric — of or derived from pyrosulfuric acid; disulfuric.
- refuse lorry — a lorry used to collect and dispose of rubbish and waste from homes, etc
- resiniferous — yielding resin.
- road surface — the surface of the road, often asphalt
- rustproofing — the process of making metal rustproof.
- safe harbour — a place that offers protection from the weather, attack, etc
- salutiferous — salutary.
- sanguiferous — conveying blood, as a blood vessel.
- saronic gulf — an inlet of the Aegean, on the SE coast of Greece, between Attica and the Peloponnesus. 50 miles (80 km) long; 30 miles (48 km) wide.
- seleniferous — containing or yielding selenium.
- self-support — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
- self-torture — the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
- self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- seminiferous — Anatomy. conveying or containing semen.
- send out for — If you send out for food, for example pizzas or sandwiches, you phone and ask for it to be delivered to you.
- serous fluid — any of various clear, watery fluids in the body.
- seventy-four — a cardinal number, 70 plus 4.
- shuffleboard — a game in which standing players shove or push wooden or plastic disks with a long cue toward numbered scoring sections marked on a floor or deck.
- siliciferous — containing, combined with, or producing silica.
- sixty-fourmo — a book size (about 2 × 3 inches; 5 × 7 cm) determined by printing on sheets folded to form 64 leaves or 128 pages.
- sixty-fourth — next after the sixty-third; being the ordinal number for 64.
- sniff around — dog: try to pick up scent
- soboliferous — bearing or producing soboles
- sofa surfing — (of a homeless person) the practice of staying temporarily with various friends and relatives while attempting to find permanent accommodation
- software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
- solid figure — a figure that has three dimensions
- soporiferous — bringing sleep; soporific.
- sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- south africa — Republic of, a country in S Africa; member of the Commonwealth of Nations until 1961. 472,000 sq. mi. (1,222,480 sq. km). Capitals: Pretoria and Cape Town.
- stand up for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing
- stelliferous — having or abounding with stars.
- stick up for — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stormfulness — the quality or state of being stormful
- subfactorial — the number of ways a group of objects can be arranged so that none of the objects are in their original or correct place
- subfeudatory — of or relating to subfeu
- sudoriferous — bearing or secreting sweat.
- suffruticose — woody at the base and herbaceous above.
- sugaring off — a sweet, crystalline substance, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 , obtained chiefly from the juice of the sugarcane and the sugar beet, and present in sorghum, maple sap, etc.: used extensively as an ingredient and flavoring of certain foods and as a fermenting agent in the manufacture of certain alcoholic beverages; sucrose. Compare beet sugar, cane sugar.
- sulfonylurea — any of a group of oral drugs, as tolbutamide, that stimulate the pancreas to secrete more insulin, used to treat diabetes
- superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
- surface road — a road or street level with its surroundings: surface roads and elevated highways.
- surfboarding — a long, narrow board on which a person stands or lies prone in surfboarding.
- thiosulfuric — of or derived from thiosulfuric acid.
- titaniferous — containing or yielding titanium.
- tuberiferous — bearing or producing tubers