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

  • platiniferous — platinum-bearing
  • plunging fire — artillery or other fire that strikes the ground at a steep angle, as from high ground overlooking the target or from a weapon fired at a high angle of elevation.
  • polliniferous — Botany. producing or bearing pollen.
  • popular front — a coalition, usually temporary, of leftist and sometimes centrist political parties, formed against a common opponent, as fascism, and promoting social reform.
  • 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.
  • preformulated — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
  • prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • pressure-feed — a system in which the supply of material is maintained by applied pressure
  • profectitious — (of money or property) proceeding from a parent or derived from an ancestor
  • proliferously — by proliferation
  • pruning knife — a knife used for pruning
  • reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
  • reptiliferous — (of rocks, etc) yielding fossilized reptiles
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • spinuliferous — relating to a spine or spines
  • splendiferous — splendid; magnificent; fine.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • subprefecture — the office or position of subprefect
  • sulfapyridine — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 1 1 H 1 1 N 3 O 2 S, formerly used for infections caused by pneumococci, now used primarily for a particular dermatitis.
  • sulfate paper — paper made from sulfate pulp.
  • sulfite paper — paper made from sulfite pulp.
  • sulfur spring — a spring the water of which contains naturally occurring sulfur compounds.
  • superfetation — the fertilization of an ovum in a female mammal already pregnant.
  • superficially — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • superfluidity — a fluid that exhibits frictionless flow, very high heat conductivity, and other unusual physical properties, helium below 2.186 K being the only known example.
  • 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
  • superterrific — more than terrific
  • surface plate — Machinery. a flat plate used by machinists for testing surfaces that are to be made perfectly flat.
  • triple figure — a number made up of three digits.
  • turn of speed — If a person, animal, or vehicle has a good turn of speed, they have the ability to move fast.
  • ultrapowerful — extremely powerful
  • under pain of — physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
  • unperfectness — the state or quality of being imperfect
  • unperformable — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
  • unpersonified — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
  • unreproachful — not deserving reproach or blame
  • unsuperficial — external or outward: a superficial resemblance.
  • unsuperfluous — not superfluous or excessive; moderate
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