13-letter words containing f, u, e, r, o
- reconfiguring — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
- reformulation — to formulate again.
- reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- reptiliferous — (of rocks, etc) yielding fossilized reptiles
- resource fork — Macintosh file system
- reunification — the process of unifying or uniting; union: the unification of the 13 original colonies.
- rhesus factor — Rh factor.
- robert fulton — Robert, 1765–1815, U.S. engineer and inventor: builder of the first profitable steamboat.
- round of beef — round1 (def 35a).
- rouse oneself — to become active or energetic
- ruffed grouse — a North American grouse, Bonasa umbellus, having a tuft of black feathers on each side of the neck.
- rule of three — the method of finding the fourth term in a proportion when three terms are given.
- 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.
- 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.
- self-coloured — of one color.
- self-exposure — the act of exposing, laying open, or uncovering: the sudden exposure of objects that were hidden under the blanket.
- 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.
- 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
- small fortune — a large sum of money
- soft currency — econ: fluctuating value
- soft shoulder — the unpaved edge of a road.
- solar furnace — a furnace using sunlight concentrated by concave mirrors as the direct source of heat.
- southern fish — the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
- spinuliferous — relating to a spine or spines
- splendiferous — splendid; magnificent; fine.
- staminiferous — bearing or having a stamen or stamens.
- stoloniferous — producing or bearing stolons.
- sugar of lead — lead acetate.
- sulfur-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.
- sunflower oil — oil obtained from sunflower seeds
- superfetation — the fertilization of an ovum in a female mammal already pregnant.
- superfluously — being more than is sufficient or required; excessive.
- superfortress — a heavy, long-range, four-engined bomber used during World War II.
- superpowerful — extremely powerful
- 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.
- surfer's knot — 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.
- tetrafluoride — a fluoride containing four fluorine atoms.
- three-fourths — In American English, people sometimes use three-fourths to mean three-quarters.
- to bear fruit — If the effort that you put into something or a particular way of doing something bears fruit, it is successful and produces good results.
- 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.
- turn of speed — If a person, animal, or vehicle has a good turn of speed, they have the ability to move fast.
- 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.
- twenty-fourth — next after the twenty-third; being the ordinal number for 24.
- two-four time — music: time signature of 2/4
- ultrapowerful — extremely powerful
- umbelliferous — bearing an umbel or umbels.
- unciform bone — a small bone of the wrist
- uncomfortable — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.