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13-letter words containing f, r, u, i

  • porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
  • post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
  • power failure — electricity outage
  • preconfigured — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
  • prefiguration — the act of prefiguring.
  • prefigurement — to show or represent beforehand by a figure or type; foreshadow.
  • prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • profectitious — (of money or property) proceeding from a parent or derived from an ancestor
  • proliferously — by proliferation
  • pruning knife — a knife used for pruning
  • quadrifarious — having four parts
  • quadrifoliate — (botany) Having four leaves or leaflets.
  • qualificatory — That serves as qualification.
  • 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.
  • quartziferous — consisting of or containing quartz: quartziferous rock.
  • quasi-federal — pertaining to or of the nature of a union of states under a central government distinct from the individual governments of the separate states, as in federal government; federal system.
  • reconfiguring — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
  • reformulation — to formulate again.
  • refundability — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
  • refurbishment — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
  • renal failure — a condition in which the kidneys fail to function adequately
  • reptiliferous — (of rocks, etc) yielding fossilized reptiles
  • return flight — a flight going back
  • reunification — the process of unifying or uniting; union: the unification of the 13 original colonies.
  • right-justify — If printed text is right-justified, each line finishes at the same distance from the right-hand edge of the page or column.
  • root of unity — a complex number that when raised to some positive integral power results in 1.
  • russification — Russianize (defs 1, 2).
  • rutherfordium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Rf; atomic number: 104.
  • sales figures — the amount of sales of something within a particular time frame
  • sargassumfish — an olive-brown and black frogfish, Histrio histrio, inhabiting tropical Atlantic and western Pacific seas among floating sargassum weed.
  • school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
  • scout uniform — the uniform worn by the Scouts
  • security firm — a firm which provides guards for buildings, and other security services and personnel
  • self-distrust — lack of confidence in oneself, in one's abilities, etc.
  • self-incurred — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
  • self-ridicule — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
  • self-security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
  • semifurnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
  • sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
  • sigmund freud — Anna, 1895–1982, British psychoanalyst, born in Austria (daughter of Sigmund Freud).
  • silver surfer — elderly internet user
  • single-figure — relating to numbers below ten
  • soundproofing — materials used to make something soundproof
  • soupfin shark — a requiem shark, Galeorhinus zyopterus, inhabiting the Pacific Ocean, valued for its fins, which are used by the Chinese in the preparation of a soup, and for its liver, which is rich in vitamin A.
  • south african — of southern Africa.
  • southern fish — the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
  • spinuliferous — relating to a spine or spines
  • splendiferous — splendid; magnificent; fine.
  • spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
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