13-letter words containing f, u, c
- security firm — a firm which provides guards for buildings, and other security services and personnel
- self-checkout — A self-checkout is a checkout where customers scan, pack and pay for their goods in a store without being served by a sales associate.
- self-coloured — of one color.
- self-conquest — the act or state of conquering or the state of being conquered; vanquishment.
- self-destruct — to destroy itself or oneself: The missile is built so that a malfunction will cause it to self-destruct.
- self-educated — educated by one's own efforts, especially without formal instruction.
- self-incurred — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
- self-occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- self-procured — to obtain or get by care, effort, or the use of special means: to procure evidence.
- self-produced — produced by oneself or itself.
- self-ridicule — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
- self-security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
- sensate focus — a series of touching exercises designed to increase intimacy in a sexual relationship
- 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
- soft currency — econ: fluctuating value
- solar furnace — a furnace using sunlight concentrated by concave mirrors as the direct source of heat.
- sound effects — any sounds artificially produced, reproduced from a recording, etc, to create a theatrical effect, such as the bringing together of two halves of a hollow coconut shell to simulate a horse's gallop; used in plays, films, etc
- south african — of southern Africa.
- speechfulness — the state of being full of speech or expression
- spruce sawfly — any of several sawflies of the family Diprionidae, especially Diprion hercyniae (European spruce sawfly) the larvae of which feed on the foliage of spruce.
- step function — a function that is constant on each of a finite set of subintervals of its domain, the union of the subintervals being the domain.
- stick out for — If you stick out for something, you keep demanding it and do not accept anything different or less.
- sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- sub-reference — an act or instance of referring.
- subjectifying — to make subjective.
- subprefecture — the office or position of subprefect
- suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- suffolk punch — a breed of draught horse with a chestnut coat and short legs
- suffrutescent — partially or slightly woody; subshrubby.
- sugar factory — a factory which refines sugar from organic sources into a form that can be used in cooking etc
- sulfonic acid — any of a large group of organic compounds of the structure RSO 2 OH, which are strong acids that give neutral sodium salts: used in the synthesis of phenols, dyes, and other substances.
- sulfuric acid — a clear, colorless to brownish, dense, oily, corrosive, water-miscible liquid, H 2 SO 4 , usually produced from sulfur dioxide: used chiefly in the manufacture of fertilizers, chemicals, explosives, and dyestuffs and in petroleum refining.
- superficially — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
- superterrific — more than terrific
- surface noise — extraneous noise caused by physical wear or a physical flaw on a phonograph record or in a pickup system, rather than by a flaw in the equipment.
- surface plate — Machinery. a flat plate used by machinists for testing surfaces that are to be made perfectly flat.
- surface water — water found on the surface of the earth (not underground or in the atmosphere), for example in rivers, seas, lakes, reservoirs, etc
- surface yeast — yeast that rises to the surface as froth during fermentation.
- surface-layer — the thin layer of air adjacent to the earth's surface, usually considered to be less than 300 feet (91 meters) high.
- 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.
- swift current — a city in SW Saskatchewan, in S Canada.
- the cup final — the annual final of the FA Cup soccer competition, played at Wembley, or the Scottish Cup, played at Hampden Park
- think much of — to have a high opinion of
- thurification — the act of incense-burning
- tour de force — an exceptional achievement by an artist, author, or the like, that is unlikely to be equaled by that person or anyone else; stroke of genius: Herman Melville's Moby Dick was a tour de force.
- traffic court — a court that passes on alleged violations of traffic laws.
- trifunctional — pertaining to molecules that can react at three sites.
- trig function — Also called circular function. a function of an angle, as sine or cosine, expressed as the ratio of the sides of a right triangle.
- tunnel effect — Physics. a quantum-mechanical process by which a particle can pass through a potential energy barrier that is higher than the energy of the particle: first postulated to explain the escape of alpha particles from atomic nuclei.
- umbraculiform — umbrella-shaped