12-letter words containing r, u, f, l, e
- pasqueflower — an Old World plant, Anemone pulsatilla, of the buttercup family, having purple, crocuslike flowers blooming about Easter.
- patent flour — a fine grade of flour, consisting chiefly of the inner part of the endosperm.
- perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
- petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
- plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
- powerfulness — having or exerting great power or force.
- preformulate — to describe an active pharmaceutical ingredient chemically
- premium fuel — fuel or gasoline which has a higher octane value and is more expensive than standard fuel
- pridefulness — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- purple finch — a North American finch, Carpodacus purpureus, having a raspberry-red head, breast, and rump.
- purposefully — having a purpose.
- quarterfinal — of or relating to the contest or round preceding the semifinal one.
- refreshfully — in a refreshful manner; refreshingly
- refuse lorry — a lorry used to collect and dispose of rubbish and waste from homes, etc
- respectfully — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
- roman-fleuve — saga (def 3).
- salutiferous — salutary.
- 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.
- serous fluid — any of various clear, watery fluids in the body.
- 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
- solid figure — a figure that has three dimensions
- 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.
- 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.
- stelliferous — having or abounding with stars.
- 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
- 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 mail — the system, especially a government postal system, of sending mail by truck, train, or boat, as opposed to airmail.
- thunderflash — a pyrotechnic device which is noisy, but not dangerous, and which is used in military exercises
- tin-fluoride — stannous fluoride.
- triple fugue — a fugue with a subject and two countersubjects developed simultaneously.
- trouble-free — not problematic
- troubleproof — not easily disturbed, disabled, injured, or put out of working order.
- true to life — realistic
- trumpet-leaf — trumpets.
- trustfulness — full of trust; free of distrust, suspicion, or the like; confiding: a trustful friend.