13-letter words containing r, u, f, i
- staminiferous — bearing or having a stamen or stamens.
- stick out for — If you stick out for something, you keep demanding it and do not accept anything different or less.
- stoloniferous — producing or bearing stolons.
- strombuliform — in the shape of a coil
- stuffed shirt — a pompous, self-satisfied, and inflexible person.
- sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- sugar of milk — lactose.
- sulfamerazine — a sulfa drug, C11H12N4O2S, a methyl derivative of sulfadiazine that is more rapidly absorbed
- sulfapyridine — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 1 1 H 1 1 N 3 O 2 S, formerly used for infections caused by pneumococci, now used primarily for a particular dermatitis.
- sulfite paper — paper made from sulfite pulp.
- sulfur spring — a spring the water of which contains naturally occurring sulfur compounds.
- sulfuric acid — a clear, colorless to brownish, dense, oily, corrosive, water-miscible liquid, H 2 SO 4 , usually produced from sulfur dioxide: used chiefly in the manufacture of fertilizers, chemicals, explosives, and dyestuffs and in petroleum refining.
- sunflower oil — oil obtained from sunflower seeds
- superfetation — the fertilization of an ovum in a female mammal already pregnant.
- superficially — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
- superfluidity — a fluid that exhibits frictionless flow, very high heat conductivity, and other unusual physical properties, helium below 2.186 K being the only known example.
- superterrific — more than terrific
- surface noise — extraneous noise caused by physical wear or a physical flaw on a phonograph record or in a pickup system, rather than by a flaw in the equipment.
- surfing music — rock-'n'-roll music from California in the early 1960s, characterized by close treble harmonies and with lyrics emphasizing the exhilaration of surfing and beach life.
- swift current — a city in SW Saskatchewan, in S Canada.
- tetrafluoride — a fluoride containing four fluorine atoms.
- thirty-fourth — next after the thirty-third; being the ordinal number for 34.
- thurification — the act of incense-burning
- to bear fruit — If the effort that you put into something or a particular way of doing something bears fruit, it is successful and produces good results.
- trade figures — a record of how much a country has paid for goods which it has bought from other countries, compared with how much it has been paid for goods which it has sold to other countries
- traffic court — a court that passes on alleged violations of traffic laws.
- transfusional — of or relating to transfusion
- transfusively — in a transfusive manner
- trifunctional — pertaining to molecules that can react at three sites.
- trig function — Also called circular function. a function of an angle, as sine or cosine, expressed as the ratio of the sides of a right triangle.
- triple figure — a number made up of three digits.
- trout fishing — angling to catch trout
- tubuliflorous — having the corolla tubular in all the perfect flowers of a head, as certain composite plants.
- two-four time — music: time signature of 2/4
- ultra-leftism — the beliefs of extremely left-wing political parties or groups
- ultra-leftist — a person with extremely left-wing political views
- ultrafamiliar — extremely familiar
- ultrafeminine — pertaining to a woman or girl: feminine beauty; feminine dress.
- ultrafiltrate — a liquid that has been passed through an ultrafilter.
- ultrararefied — extremely rarefied
- umbelliferous — bearing an umbel or umbels.
- umbraculiform — umbrella-shaped
- unciform bone — a small bone of the wrist
- under pain of — physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
- underfinanced — Underfinanced means the same as underfunded.
- underfinished — (of a farm animal) not having developed enough flesh
- underinflated — lacking sufficient air pressure
- understaffing — the condition of being understaffed or of lacking a number of employees
- undifferenced — (of a coat of arms) having no marks indicating family position and to be used by only one person at a time
- undiversified — distinguished by various forms or by a variety of objects: diversified activity.