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14-letter words containing f, r, e, u

  • saturated fats — a type of single-bond animal or vegetable fat, as that found in butter, meat, egg yolks, and coconut or palm oil, that in humans tends to increase cholesterol levels in the blood. Compare saturated (def 3).
  • saxifragaceous — belonging to the plant family Saxifragaceae.
  • scotch furnace — ore hearth.
  • self-assurance — self-confidence.
  • self-composure — calmness and self-possession
  • self-forgetful — forgetful or not thinking of one's own advantage, interest, etc.
  • self-insurance — insurance of one's property or interests against possible loss by the establishing of a special fund for the purpose instead of seeking coverage with an underwriter.
  • self-laudatory — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.
  • self-regulated — governed or controlled from within; self-regulating.
  • self-righteous — confident of one's own righteousness, especially when smugly moralistic and intolerant of the opinions and behavior of others.
  • self-slaughter — suicide.
  • self-surrender — the surrender or yielding up of oneself, one's will, affections, etc., as to another person, an influence, or a cause.
  • sense of humor — finding things funny
  • seventy-fourth — next after the seventy-third; being the ordinal number for 74.
  • sharp-featured — having very clearly defined facial features
  • 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.
  • sprightfulness — the condition or quality of being sprightful
  • 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.
  • sufferableness — the quality or condition of being sufferable
  • sugar refinery — place where sugar is processed
  • sulfinpyrazone — a substance, C 2 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 3 S, used in the treatment of chronic gout.
  • 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.
  • sulfuric ether — ether (def 1).
  • 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
  • supereffective — very or extremely effective
  • superefficient — extremely efficient
  • superfecundity — the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
  • superficiality — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • superficialize — to treat things superficially
  • 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-active — (of a substance, esp a detergent) capable of lowering the surface tension of a liquid, usually water
  • 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.
  • temperamentful — full of temperament
  • the final four — the last four teams remaining in a tournament
  • tin difluoride — stannous fluoride.
  • to return fire — If you return fire or you return someone's fire, you shoot back at someone who has shot at you.
  • torture flight — a flight used to carry out extraordinary rendition
  • tour-de-france — a bicycle touring race, held over a period of 21 days: it covers about 2500 miles (4000 km) in France, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Switzerland.
  • tourist office — information centre for sightseers
  • truant officer — a school attendance officer whose job is to locate truants and return them to school
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