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12-letter words containing r, u, f, e

  • safe harbour — a place that offers protection from the weather, attack, etc
  • safe surfing — the practice of using security measures to protect one's computer while surfing the internet
  • salutiferous — salutary.
  • sanguiferous — conveying blood, as a blood vessel.
  • seleniferous — containing or yielding selenium.
  • self-assured — self-confident.
  • self-insurer — one insured under self-insurance.
  • self-support — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
  • self-torture — the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
  • self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
  • seminiferous — Anatomy. conveying or containing semen.
  • send out for — If you send out for food, for example pizzas or sandwiches, you phone and ask for it to be delivered to you.
  • serous fluid — any of various clear, watery fluids in the body.
  • seventy-four — a cardinal number, 70 plus 4.
  • shuffleboard — a game in which standing players shove or push wooden or plastic disks with a long cue toward numbered scoring sections marked on a floor or deck.
  • shuttlecraft — space shuttle.
  • siliciferous — containing, combined with, or producing silica.
  • simple fruit — a fruit formed from one pistil.
  • soboliferous — bearing or producing soboles
  • software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
  • solid figure — a figure that has three dimensions
  • soporiferous — bringing sleep; soporific.
  • sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • spencer gulf — an inlet of the Indian Ocean in S Australia, between the Eyre and Yorke Peninsulas. Length: about 320 km (200 miles). Greatest width: about 145 km (90 miles)
  • sprachgefuhl — a sensitivity to language, especially for what is grammatically or idiomatically acceptable in a given language.
  • square serif — a font of type having serifs with a weight equal to or greater than that of the main strokes. Compare Egyptian (def 5).
  • square-faced — having a front shaped so as to be square or rectangular
  • squirrelfish — any of several brightly colored, nocturnal fishes of the family Holocentridae, inhabiting shallow waters of tropical reefs, especially the reddish Holocentrus ascensionis of the West Indies, armed with sharp spines and scales.
  • stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing
  • stauffenberg — Claus (klaʊs), Graf von. 1907–44, German army officer, who tried to assassinate Hitler (1944). He and his fellow conspirators were executed
  • stelliferous — having or abounding with stars.
  • stick figure — a diagrammatic drawing representing a human or animal, usually made with one line each for the torso and appendages, and often a circle for the head.
  • stormfulness — the quality or state of being stormful
  • strike fault — a fault that trends parallel to the strike of the strata that it offsets.
  • subfertility — below-average fertility
  • subfeudatory — of or relating to subfeu
  • subreference — a secondary reference
  • sudoriferous — bearing or secreting sweat.
  • suffruticose — woody at the base and herbaceous above.
  • sulfarsenide — any compound containing an arsenide and a sulfide.
  • sulfonylurea — any of a group of oral drugs, as tolbutamide, that stimulate the pancreas to secrete more insulin, used to treat diabetes
  • superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
  • surface area — the total area on the surface of a three-dimensional figure
  • surface mail — the system, especially a government postal system, of sending mail by truck, train, or boat, as opposed to airmail.
  • surface road — a road or street level with its surroundings: surface roads and elevated highways.
  • surface wave — a seismic wave that travels along or parallel to the earth's surface (distinguished from body wave).
  • the big four — a small powerful group, as of banks, companies, etc, esp the four largest banks in Britain (Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, and NatWest)
  • thoroughfare — a road, street, or the like, that leads at each end into another street.
  • thunderflash — a pyrotechnic device which is noisy, but not dangerous, and which is used in military exercises
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