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16-letter words containing r, u, n, f

  • pressure flaking — a method of manufacturing a flint tool by pressing flakes from a stone core with a pointed implement, usually of wood tipped with antler or copper.
  • puddling-furnace — the act of a person or thing that puddles.
  • put a foot wrong — to make a mistake
  • quarter-finalist — A quarter-finalist is a person or team that is competing in a quarter-final.
  • radius of action — the maximum distance that a ship, aircraft, or land vehicle can travel from its base and return without refuelling
  • reference number — a unique number on an order, application, etc, used to designate and quickly locate that order, application, etc
  • refinery upgrade — A refinery upgrade is the process of introducing the newest technology in some parts of the refinery.
  • run interference — an act, fact, or instance of interfering.
  • self-destruction — the destruction or ruination of oneself or one's life.
  • self-lubricating — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
  • self-lubrication — the process of becoming lubricated without external factors
  • self-nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
  • self-pronouncing — having the pronunciation indicated, especially by diacritical marks added on original spellings rather than by phonetic symbols: a self-pronouncing dictionary.
  • self-reproducing — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • self-suppression — Psychoanalysis. conscious inhibition of an impulse.
  • shoulder surfing — a form of credit-card fraud in which the perpetrator stands behind and looks over the shoulder of the victim as he or she withdraws money from an automated teller machine, memorizes the card details, and later steals the card
  • shugart, alan f. — Alan F. Shugart
  • smelting furnace — an industrial oven used to heat ore in order to extract metal
  • soft brown sugar — a type of moist sugar made by coating white sugar with dark molasses
  • soft furnishings — home fabrics
  • stocking stuffer — a small, usually inexpensive gift that is placed with others in a Christmas stocking.
  • street furniture — pieces of equipment, such as streetlights and pillar boxes, placed in the street for the benefit of the public
  • sulfanilyl group — the para form of the group C 6 H 6 NO 2 S–, derived from sulfanilic acid.
  • sulfarsphenamine — a yellow, water-soluble, arsenic-containing powder, C 1 4 H 1 4 As 2 N 2 Na 2 O 8 S 2 , formerly used in the treatment of syphilis.
  • sulfocarbanilide — thiocarbanilide.
  • superfecundation — the fertilization of two or more ova discharged at the same ovulation by successive acts of sexual intercourse.
  • superunification — a theory intended to describe the electromagnetic force, the strong force, the weak force, and gravity as a single, unified force.
  • surface integral — the limit, as the norm of the partition of a given surface into sections of area approaches zero, of the sum of the product of the areas times the value of a given function of three variables at some point on each section.
  • surface-printing — planography.
  • sutherland falls — a waterfall in New Zealand, on SW South Island. 1904 feet (580 meters) high.
  • tanagra figurine — a small terra-cotta statuette produced from the late 4th to the 3rd century b.c. in Tanagra, Boeotia, and found chiefly in tombs.
  • the arabian gulf — the arm of the Arabian Sea between SW Iran and Arabia; important for the oilfields on its shores
  • the four hundred — the most exclusive or affluent social clique in a particular place
  • the gang of four — a radical faction within the Chinese Communist Party that emerged as a political force in the spring of 1976 and was suppressed later that year. Its members, Zhang Chunqiao, Wang Hongwen, Yao Wenyuan, and Jiang Qing, were tried and imprisoned (1981)
  • trailing fuchsia — a shrub, Fuchsia procumbens, of the evening primrose family, native to New Zealand, having long-stalked leaves and drooping, orange-and-purple flowers, used in hanging baskets.
  • train of thought — sequence of ideas
  • transfer student — a student who moves from one institution or course to another at the same level (e.g. undergraduate)
  • transverse flute — the normal orchestral flute, as opposed to the recorder (or fipple flute)
  • tread under foot — to oppress
  • treaty of verdun — an agreement reached in 843 ad by three grandsons of Charlemagne, dividing his empire into an E kingdom (later Germany), a W kingdom (later France), and a middle kingdom (containing what became the Low Countries, Lorraine, Burgundy, and N Italy)
  • twenty-four-hour — lasting for twenty-four hours
  • ultra filtration — Physical Chemistry. a filter for purifying sols, having a membrane with pores sufficiently small to prevent the passage of the suspended particles.
  • unconfirmability — to establish the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of; corroborate; verify: This report confirms my suspicions.
  • undifferentiable — capable of being differentiated.
  • undifferentiated — to form or mark differently from other such things; distinguish.
  • unenforceability — to put or keep in force; compel obedience to: to enforce a rule; Traffic laws will be strictly enforced.
  • unfair dismissal — wrongful firing from a job
  • unfranked income — any income from an investment that does not qualify as franked investment income
  • uniformed branch — the branch of a police force in which officers wear a uniform
  • union-of-myanmar — Union of, official name of Burma.
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