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16-letter words containing o, u, t, f, r

  • luck of the draw — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
  • make a virtue of — If you make a virtue of something, you pretend that you did it because you chose to, although in fact you did it because you had to.
  • matron of honour — a married woman serving as chief attendant to a bride
  • matter of course — an event or result that is natural or inevitable
  • matter-of-course — occurring or proceeding in or as if in the logical, natural, or customary course of things; expected or inevitable.
  • metallofullerene — (chemistry) A fullerene containing an enclosed metal atom.
  • miraculous fruit — miracle fruit.
  • misconfiguration — An incorrect or inappropriate configuration.
  • mossbauer effect — the phenomenon in which an atom in a crystal undergoes no recoil when emitting a gamma ray, giving all the emitted energy to the gamma ray, resulting in a sharply defined wavelength.
  • multifariousness — (uncountable) The characteristic of being multifarious.
  • multilinear form — a function or functional of several variables such that when all variables but one are held fixed, the function is linear in the remaining variable.
  • multiple factors — polygene.
  • nitrosylsulfuric — of or derived from nitrosylsulfuric acid.
  • no-fault divorce — a divorce granted without anyone being found guilty of marital misconduct
  • non-manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • nonmanufacturing — (economics) Outside of the manufacturing sector.
  • not on your life — the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.
  • oak leaf cluster — a U.S. military decoration in the form of a small bronze twig bearing four oak leaves and three acorns, worn on the ribbon of another decoration for valor, wounds, or distinguished service to signify a second award of the same medal.
  • of the nature of — having the essential character of; like
  • off-the-shoulder — not covering the shoulder
  • 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
  • phosphor fatigue — screen saver
  • powerfully built — (of a person, esp a man) big and physically strong, with large muscles
  • put a foot wrong — to make a mistake
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • refuse collector — someone who collects of rubbish and waste, usually in a rubbish or refuse truck, before final disposal
  • 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.
  • 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-exculpatory — intended to excuse oneself from blame or guilt
  • self-lubrication — the process of becoming lubricated without external factors
  • self-nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
  • soft brown sugar — a type of moist sugar made by coating white sugar with dark molasses
  • soft furnishings — home fabrics
  • stocking stuffer — a small, usually inexpensive gift that is placed with others in a Christmas stocking.
  • superfecundation — the fertilization of two or more ova discharged at the same ovulation by successive acts of sexual intercourse.
  • superunification — a theory intended to describe the electromagnetic force, the strong force, the weak force, and gravity as a single, unified force.
  • teutoburg forest — region of low, forested mountains, mostly in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany: highest point, c. 1,500 ft (457 m)
  • texture modifier — a substance that is added to food products to increase viscosity
  • the first couple — the US president and their spouse
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