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14-letter words containing s, e, l, f, u

  • fulfil oneself — to achieve one's potential or desires
  • full professor — professor (def 1).
  • full-fashioned — knitted to conform to the shape of a body part, as of the foot or leg: full-fashioned hosiery.
  • fuller's earth — an absorbent clay, used especially for removing grease from fabrics, in fulling cloth, as a filter, and as a dusting powder.
  • functionalised — to make functional.
  • fundamentalism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts, especially within American Protestantism and Islam.
  • fundamentalist — an adherent of fundamentalism, a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts: radical fundamentalists.
  • fungible issue — a bond issued by a company on the same terms as a bond previously issued by that company, although the redemption yield will probably be different
  • futurelessness — the state or quality of being futureless
  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
  • hero's formula — the formula for the area of a triangle when the sides are given: for a triangle with sides a, b, and c, the area is equal to , where s is equal to one half the perimeter of the triangle.
  • house of lords — the nonelective, upper house of the British Parliament, comprising the lords spiritual and lords temporal.
  • ill-suited for — unsuitable for something
  • in lieu of sth — If you do, get, or give one thing in lieu of another, you do, get, or give it instead of the other thing, because the two things are considered to have the same value or importance.
  • infelicitously — In a way that is infelicitous or unfortunate.
  • insightfulness — The state or condition of being insightful.
  • insufficiently — not sufficient; lacking in what is necessary or required: an insufficient answer.
  • intestinal flu — influenza with abdominal symptoms, as diarrhea or vomiting.
  • kaieteur falls — a river in central Guyana: (Kaieteur Falls) one of highest waterfalls in the world at 741 feet (226 meters). 100 miles (161 km) long.
  • kaieteur-falls — a river in central Guyana: (Kaieteur Falls) one of highest waterfalls in the world at 741 feet (226 meters). 100 miles (161 km) long.
  • life assurance — insurance: pays if holder dies
  • life insurance — insurance providing for payment of a sum of money to a named beneficiary upon the death of the policyholder or to the policyholder if still living after reaching a specified age.
  • lifestyle guru — a person hired to give someone advice on various aspects of his or her life, work, and relationships
  • light the fuse — If someone or something lights the fuse of a particular situation or activity, they suddenly get it started.
  • lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
  • long-suffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
  • meaningfulness — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
  • minucius felixMarcus, Roman writer of the 2nd century a.d. whose dialogue Octavius is the earliest known work of Latin-Christian literature.
  • mosquito fleet — a group or fleet of PT boats or other small, armed boats.
  • music festival — a festival, often an annual event, at which a lot of different performers play
  • neglectfulness — The characteristic of being neglectful.
  • non-diffusible — capable of being diffused.
  • nonfilamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
  • nonfluorescent — possessing the property of fluorescence; exhibiting fluorescence.
  • nuclear fusion — fusion (def 4).
  • paper-shuffler — a person who has a routine desk job.
  • pleasure craft — A pleasure craft is the same as a pleasure boat.
  • pouilly fuissé — a dry white Burgundy wine made from the chardonnay grape
  • pouilly-fuisse — a dry, white wine from Burgundy.
  • pound of flesh — the soft substance of a human or other animal body, consisting of muscle and fat.
  • purposefulness — having a purpose.
  • radium sulfate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous, radioactive solid, RaSO 4 , used chiefly in radiotherapy.
  • rafferty rules — no rules at all
  • respectfulness — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
  • rules of order — the rules by which a legislative or deliberative assembly governs its proceedings; parliamentary law.
  • self-actualize — to undergo self-actualization.
  • self-actuating — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
  • self-adjusting — that adjusts itself in response to circumstances
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