16-letter words containing f, u, r
- out of character — the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing.
- out of your mind — If you say that someone is out of their mind, you mean that they are mad or very foolish.
- outboard profile — an exterior side elevation of a vessel, showing all deck structures, rigging, fittings, etc.
- outsmart oneself — to have one's efforts at cunning or cleverness result in one's own disadvantage
- pacific sturgeon — a dark gray sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus, inhabiting marine and fresh waters along the northwestern coast of North America, valued as a food and sport fish.
- partial function — A function which is not defined for all arguments of its input type. E.g. f(x) = 1/x if x /= 0. The opposite of a total function. In denotational semantics, a partial function f : D -> C may be represented as a total function ft : D' -> lift(C) where D' is a superset of D and ft x = f x if x in D ft x = bottom otherwise where lift(C) = C U bottom. Bottom (LaTeX \perp) denotes "undefined".
- perforated ulcer — an ulcer that bursts through the stomach wall and leaks food and gastric juices into the abdominal cavity
- period furniture — furniture that was made during a particular period in time
- person of colour — a person who is not White
- persulfuric acid — Also called Caro's acid, permonosulfuric acid, peroxymonosulfuric acid, peroxysulfuric acid. a white, crystalline solid, H 2 SO 5 , used as an oxidizing agent for certain organic compounds.
- phosphor fatigue — screen saver
- powerfully built — (of a person, esp a man) big and physically strong, with large muscles
- pressure flaking — a method of manufacturing a flint tool by pressing flakes from a stone core with a pointed implement, usually of wood tipped with antler or copper.
- puddling-furnace — the act of a person or thing that puddles.
- put a foot wrong — to make a mistake
- put sb/sth first — If you put someone or something first, you treat or consider them as more important than anything else.
- put your feet up — If you put your feet up, you relax or have a rest, especially by sitting or lying with your feet supported off the ground.
- quarter-finalist — A quarter-finalist is a person or team that is competing in a quarter-final.
- radius of action — the maximum distance that a ship, aircraft, or land vehicle can travel from its base and return without refuelling
- red flour beetle — a reddish-brown flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, that feeds on stored grain, dried fruit, etc.
- reference number — a unique number on an order, application, etc, used to designate and quickly locate that order, application, etc
- refinery upgrade — A refinery upgrade is the process of introducing the newest technology in some parts of the refinery.
- refresher course — a study course serving as a review of previous education.
- refuse collector — someone who collects of rubbish and waste, usually in a rubbish or refuse truck, before final disposal
- regius professor — Crown-appointed holder of a university chair
- right about face — Military. a command, given to a soldier or soldiers at attention, to turn the body about toward the right so as to face in the opposite direction. the act of so turning in a prescribed military manner.
- rule of the road — any of the regulations concerning the safe handling of vessels under way with respect to one another, imposed by a government on ships in its own waters or upon its own ships on the high seas.
- run interference — an act, fact, or instance of interfering.
- safeguard clause — a clause in a contract, etc, that ensures the protection of something against problems, etc
- security officer — civilian, policeman or soldier who is responsible for security in a town or country
- self-destruction — the destruction or ruination of oneself or one's life.
- self-destructive — harmful, injurious, or destructive to oneself: His constant arguing with the boss shows he's a self-destructive person.
- self-exculpatory — intended to excuse oneself from blame or guilt
- self-lubricating — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- self-lubrication — the process of becoming lubricated without external factors
- self-nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
- self-preoccupied — preoccupied by one's own concerns
- self-pronouncing — having the pronunciation indicated, especially by diacritical marks added on original spellings rather than by phonetic symbols: a self-pronouncing dictionary.
- self-reproducing — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- self-resourceful — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.
- self-suppression — Psychoanalysis. conscious inhibition of an impulse.
- shoulder surfing — a form of credit-card fraud in which the perpetrator stands behind and looks over the shoulder of the victim as he or she withdraws money from an automated teller machine, memorizes the card details, and later steals the card
- shugart, alan f. — Alan F. Shugart
- smelting furnace — an industrial oven used to heat ore in order to extract metal
- soft brown sugar — a type of moist sugar made by coating white sugar with dark molasses
- soft furnishings — home fabrics
- specific surface — The specific surface is the ratio of a particle's surface area to its volume or mass.
- stocking stuffer — a small, usually inexpensive gift that is placed with others in a Christmas stocking.
- street furniture — pieces of equipment, such as streetlights and pillar boxes, placed in the street for the benefit of the public
- sulfanilyl group — the para form of the group C 6 H 6 NO 2 S–, derived from sulfanilic acid.