13-letter words containing f, r, u, m
- nurse-midwife — a nurse skilled in assisting women in the prenatal period and in childbirth, especially at home or in another nonhospital setting.
- out of humour — in a bad mood
- out-performed — to surpass in excellence of performance; do better than: a new engine that outperforms the competition; a stock that outperformed all others.
- outperformers — Plural form of outperformer.
- outperforming — Present participle of outperform.
- picture frame — mount for a picture
- prefigurement — to show or represent beforehand by a figure or type; foreshadow.
- preformulated — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- reformulation — to formulate again.
- refurbishment — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
- remanufacture — to refurbish (a used product) by renovating and reassembling its components: to remanufacture a vacuum cleaner.
- 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.
- rutherfordium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Rf; atomic number: 104.
- sargassumfish — an olive-brown and black frogfish, Histrio histrio, inhabiting tropical Atlantic and western Pacific seas among floating sargassum weed.
- scout uniform — the uniform worn by the Scouts
- security firm — a firm which provides guards for buildings, and other security services and personnel
- semifurnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- sigmund freud — Anna, 1895–1982, British psychoanalyst, born in Austria (daughter of Sigmund Freud).
- small fortune — a large sum of money
- 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.
- staminiferous — bearing or having a stamen or stamens.
- strombuliform — in the shape of a coil
- stuffed derma — kishke.
- sugar of milk — lactose.
- sulfamerazine — a sulfa drug, C11H12N4O2S, a methyl derivative of sulfadiazine that is more rapidly absorbed
- sulfur-bottom — blue whale.
- surfing music — rock-'n'-roll music from California in the early 1960s, characterized by close treble harmonies and with lyrics emphasizing the exhilaration of surfing and beach life.
- twenty-fourmo — a book size of about 3 5/8 × 5 1/8 inches (9 × 13 cm), determined by printing on sheets folded to form 24 leaves or 48 pages.
- two-four time — music: time signature of 2/4
- ultra-leftism — the beliefs of extremely left-wing political parties or groups
- ultrafamiliar — extremely familiar
- ultrafeminine — pertaining to a woman or girl: feminine beauty; feminine dress.
- umbelliferous — bearing an umbel or umbels.
- umbraculiform — umbrella-shaped
- umbrella leaf — a rare, large-leaved perennial herb, Diphylleia cymosa, of the southeastern U.S., having white flowers and small, blue berries.
- unciform bone — a small bone of the wrist
- uncomfortable — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
- uncomfortably — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
- unconformable — not conformable; not conforming.
- unconformably — not conformable; not conforming.
- unfamiliarity — not familiar; not acquainted with or conversant about: to be unfamiliar with a subject.
- unforthcoming — coming, forth, or about to come forth; about to appear; approaching in time: the forthcoming concert.
- uninformative — not educational
- unmistrustful — not mistrustful
- unperformable — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
- untransformed — not transformed; not having been transformed
- vacuum filter — A vacuum filter is a filter in which the liquid passes through more easily because of a vacuum on the liquid output side.
- word of mouth — informal oral communication: The rumor spread rapidly by word of mouth.