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15-letter words containing r, u, f, i, s

  • multiflora rose — a climbing or trailing rose, Rosa multiflora, of Japan and Korea, having hooked prickles and fragrant, dense clusters of flowers.
  • neuroscientific — the field of study encompassing the various scientific disciplines dealing with the structure, development, function, chemistry, pharmacology, and pathology of the nervous system.
  • nuclear fission — fission (def 2).
  • odoriferousness — The quality of being odoriferous.
  • outside forward — one of two attacking players who usually play on the far side of the field; wing.
  • passifloraceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Passifloraceae, a tropical and subtropical family of climbing plants including the passionflowers: the flowers have five petals and threadlike parts forming a dense mass (corona) around the central disc
  • perfunctoriness — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • play favourites — to display favouritism
  • plumbers-friend — Machinery. a pistonlike reciprocating part moving within the cylinder of a pump or hydraulic device.
  • posttransfusion — occurring after or as a result of a transfusion
  • principal focus — focal point (def 1).
  • puffin crossing — a UK pedestrian road crossing with traffic lights signalling red to stop the traffic flow when pedestrians are seen on the crossing by infrared detectors. The green signal reappears when no pedestrians are seen on the crossing
  • purslane family — the plant family Portulacaceae, characterized by chiefly herbaceous plants having simple, often fleshy leaves, sometimes showy flowers, and capsular fruit, and including bitterroot, purslane, red maids, rose moss, and spring beauty.
  • quadric surface — a three-dimensional surface whose equation is a quadratic equation.
  • quarterfinalist — a participant in a quarterfinal contest.
  • ranfurly shield — (in New Zealand) the premier rugby trophy, competed for annually by provincial teams
  • ratafia biscuit — a macaroon.
  • ray of sunshine — beam of sunlight
  • rayside-balfour — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • ready-furnished — (of a room, house, office, etc) fitted with furniture before being rented or sold
  • refuelling stop — a stop made so that fresh fuel can be supplied (to an aircraft, vehicle, etc)
  • refuse disposal — the act of disposing of rubbish and waste
  • relief supplies — food, water, medication, clothes, etc given to people in need, esp in disaster areas
  • riemann surface — a geometric representation of a function of a complex variable in which a multiple-valued function is depicted as a single-valued function on several planes, the planes being connected at some of the points at which the function takes on more than one value.
  • right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
  • rime suffisante — full rhyme.
  • round whitefish — a whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum, found in northern North America and Siberia, having silvery sides and a dark bronze back.
  • rule one's life — If you say that something rules someone's life, you mean that it affects everything they do, usually in a negative way.
  • securities firm — a firm that deals in securities
  • security forces — police or soldiers responsible for maintaining security
  • self-authorized — given or endowed with authority: an authorized agent.
  • self-caricature — a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things: His caricature of the mayor in this morning's paper is the best he's ever drawn.
  • self-disclosure — the act or an instance of disclosing; exposure; revelation.
  • self-persuasion — the act of persuading or seeking to persuade.
  • self-production — produced by oneself or itself.
  • self-propulsion — propulsion by a vehicle's own engine, motor, or the like.
  • self-regulating — adjusting, ruling, or governing itself without outside interference; operating or functioning without externally imposed controls or regulations: a self-regulating economy; the self-regulating market.
  • self-regulation — control by oneself or itself, as in an economy, business organization, etc., especially such control as exercised independently of governmental supervision, laws, or the like.
  • self-regulative — used for or capable of controlling or adjusting oneself or itself: a self-regulative device.
  • self-renouncing — to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
  • self-subversive — Also, subversionary [suh b-vur-zhuh-ner-ee, -shuh-] /səbˈvɜr ʒəˌnɛr i, -ʃə-/ (Show IPA). tending or intending to subvert or overthrow, destroy, or undermine an established or existing system, especially a legally constituted government or a set of beliefs.
  • self-supporting — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
  • semi-figurative — 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.
  • semimanufacture — a product which forms an intermediate stage in the manufacture of another, often more complex product
  • service uniform — a uniform for routine duties and service, as distinguished from work, dress, or full-dress uniforms.
  • shroud of turin — a linen cloth kept in the Cathedral of Turin, Italy, since the late 1500s that bears a faint life-size human image venerated by some as the imprint of the dead body of Jesus.
  • sigmoid flexure — Zoology. an S -shaped curve in a body part.
  • silver fluoride — a yellow or brownish, crystalline, water-soluble, hygroscopic solid, AgF, used chiefly as an antiseptic and disinfectant.
  • simple fracture — a fracture in which the bone does not pierce the skin.
  • slumpflationary — of or relating to slumpflation
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