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13-letter words containing s, c, u, r, f

  • formicivorous — ant-eating.
  • formularistic — relating to formularization
  • fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
  • fractocumulus — low ragged slightly bulbous cloud, often appearing below nimbostratus clouds during rain
  • fractostratus — low ragged layered cloud often appearing below nimbostratus clouds during rain
  • frumentaceous — of the nature of or resembling wheat or other grain.
  • functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
  • furaciousness — the quality of being furacious or thievish
  • house officer — a doctor who is the most junior member of the medical staff of a hospital, usually resident in the hospital
  • hydrosulfuric — (chemistry) Derived from hydrogen sulfide considered as hydrosulfuric acid.
  • hypersurfaces — Plural form of hypersurface.
  • infostructure — The technical infrastructure supporting an information system.
  • infrascapular — (anatomy) Beneath the scapula.
  • infructuously — in an infructuous or unfruitful manner; fruitlessly
  • inns of court — (in England) the four private unincorporated societies in London that function as a law school and have the exclusive privilege of calling candidates to the English bar
  • justificatory — serving to justify; providing justification.
  • manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
  • manufacturers — Plural form of manufacturer.
  • misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
  • nectariferous — producing nectar.
  • nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
  • noncolourfast — (of a fabric) having a colour that tends to fade when washed or worn
  • nonconiferous — Not coniferous.
  • on course for — If you are on course for something, you are likely to achieve it.
  • on sufferance — passive permission resulting from lack of interference; tolerance, especially of something wrong or illegal (usually preceded by on or by).
  • pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
  • porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
  • profectitious — (of money or property) proceeding from a parent or derived from an ancestor
  • refuse a card — If you refuse a card, you do not allow someone's credit card to be used to pay a bill.
  • resource fork — Macintosh file system
  • rhesus factor — Rh factor.
  • ruled surface — a surface that can be generated by a straight line, as a cylinder or cone.
  • russification — Russianize (defs 1, 2).
  • schadenfreude — satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
  • school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
  • scout uniform — the uniform worn by the Scouts
  • security firm — a firm which provides guards for buildings, and other security services and personnel
  • self-coloured — of one color.
  • self-destruct — to destroy itself or oneself: The missile is built so that a malfunction will cause it to self-destruct.
  • self-incurred — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
  • self-procured — to obtain or get by care, effort, or the use of special means: to procure evidence.
  • self-produced — produced by oneself or itself.
  • self-ridicule — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
  • self-security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
  • sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
  • soft currency — econ: fluctuating value
  • solar furnace — a furnace using sunlight concentrated by concave mirrors as the direct source of heat.
  • south african — of southern Africa.
  • spruce sawfly — any of several sawflies of the family Diprionidae, especially Diprion hercyniae (European spruce sawfly) the larvae of which feed on the foliage of spruce.
  • stick out for — If you stick out for something, you keep demanding it and do not accept anything different or less.
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