10-letter words containing r, u, f
- saliferous — containing or producing salt: saliferous strata.
- scornfully — full of scorn; derisive; contemptuous: He smiled in a scornful way.
- scoutcraft — practice of or skill at scouting.
- scrofulous — pertaining to, resembling, of the nature of, or affected with scrofula.
- scrub fowl — megapode.
- scrum half — a player who puts in the ball at scrums and tries to get it away to his three-quarter backs
- scuff mark — Scuff marks are marks made on a smooth surface when something is rubbed against it.
- scurfiness — the state or quality of being scurfy
- sebiferous — producing or carrying a fatty, oily, or waxlike substance
- securiform — (of plants) having the shape of an axe
- self-guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- self-trust — reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
- setiferous — having setae or bristles.
- short fuse — a quick temper: A person with a short fuse has to be handled diplomatically.
- sixty-four — a cardinal number, 60 plus 4.
- skysurfing — a sport that is similar to skydiving but uses a special lightweight board (skyboard) attached to the feet and usually equipped with a parachute.
- slumberful — characterized by sleep or slumber
- soft fruit — berries
- soniferous — conveying or producing sound.
- soundproof — impervious to sound.
- sour-faced — bad-tempered and unfriendly
- soya flour — flour made from soya beans
- sprightful — sprightly.
- squamiform — shaped like a scale.
- square off — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- star fruit — carambola (def 2).
- star-fruit — carambola (def 2).
- starfucker — a person who seeks to have sexual relations with celebrities; groupie
- stormfully — in a stormful manner
- stouthrief — theft using force or violence
- stump farm — a farm that was started on previously forested land covered with the stumps of felled trees.
- subfebrile — pertaining to or marked by a temperature slightly above normal.
- subfertile — less than normally fertile
- subofficer — a person who holds a position of rank or authority in the army, navy, air force, or any similar organization, especially one who holds a commission.
- subprefect — an administrator junior to a prefect or chief official
- subsurface — below the surface, especially of a body of water.
- subterfuge — an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc.
- suckerfish — remora.
- sucralfate — a sugar-aluminum complex, C 1 2 H 5 4 Al 1 6 O 7 5 S 8 , used for the treatment of duodenal ulcer.
- sufferable — to undergo or feel pain or distress: The patient is still suffering.
- sufferance — passive permission resulting from lack of interference; tolerance, especially of something wrong or illegal (usually preceded by on or by).
- suffragist — an advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage, especially to women.
- sugar loaf — resembling a sugar-loaf.
- sugar-free — containing no sugar: a sugar-free cola.
- sugar-loaf — resembling a sugar-loaf.
- sulfa drug — any of a group of drugs closely related in chemical structure to sulfanilamide, having a bacteriostatic rather than a bacteriocidal effect: used in the treatment of various wounds, burns, and infections.
- sulfhydryl — mercapto.
- sulfureous — consisting of, containing, or pertaining to sulfur.
- superfecta — a type of bet, especially on horse races, in which the bettor must select the first four finishers in exact order.
- superflack — an extremely competent, successful press agent