13-letter words containing f, u, r
- new braunfels — a city in S Texas, near San Antonio.
- nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
- ninety-fourth — next after the ninety-third; being the ordinal number for 94.
- non-fiduciary — Law. a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.
- noncolourfast — (of a fabric) having a colour that tends to fade when washed or worn
- nonconiferous — Not coniferous.
- nonfigurative — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
- nonforfeiture — Lack of forfeiture; failure to forfeit, or exemption from forfeiting.
- nonfraudulent — Not fraudulent.
- nonrefundable — an amount refunded.
- nonuniformity — (uncountable) The condition of being nonuniform.
- nuclear force — strong interaction
- nurse-midwife — a nurse skilled in assisting women in the prenatal period and in childbirth, especially at home or in another nonhospital setting.
- odoriferously — In an odoriferous manner.
- off-side rule — A lexical convention due to Landin, allowing the scope of declarations in a program to be expressed by indentation. Any non-whitespace token to the left of the first such token on the previous line is taken to be the start of a new declaration. Used in, for example, Miranda and Haskell.
- office junior — a young person, esp a school-leaver, employed in an office for running errands and doing other minor jobs
- old favourite — If you refer to something as an old favourite, you mean that it has been in existence for a long time and everyone knows it or likes it.
- oligofluorene — (organic chemistry) Any of a class of aromatic polycyclic hydrocarbons consisting of several fluorene units attached end-to-end.
- on course for — If you are on course for something, you are likely to achieve it.
- on sufferance — passive permission resulting from lack of interference; tolerance, especially of something wrong or illegal (usually preceded by on or by).
- open fracture — compound fracture.
- out of breath — the air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
- out of danger — no longer at risk
- out of humour — in a bad mood
- out of kilter — If one thing is out of kilter with another, the first thing does not agree with or fit in with the second.
- out of square — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- out-of-stater — a visitor from another state of the U.S.: Many out-of-staters come to our summer music festival.
- out-of-towner — a visitor from another town or city: The World's Fair brought many out-of-towners to New Orleans.
- 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.
- over-effusive — unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve: effusive greetings; an effusive person.
- overfrequency — Also, frequence. the state or fact of being frequent; frequent occurrence: We are alarmed by the frequency of fires in the neighborhood.
- overqualified — having more education, training, or experience than is required for a job or position.
- owl butterfly — any of several South American nymphalid butterflies of the genus Caligo, especially C. eurylochus, having a spot like an owl's eye on each hind wing.
- parainfluenza — an influenzalike respiratory infection of animals and humans, caused by any of several paramyxoviruses.
- parquet floor — flooring made of inlaid wood
- passion fruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
- perfunctorily — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- personal foul — a foul called in certain games, as basketball or football, for illegal body contact or rough, unsportsmanlike play.
- petroliferous — containing or yielding petroleum
- picture frame — mount for a picture
- pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- 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