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15-letter words containing s, o, u, r, f

  • margaritiferous — yielding or wearing pearls
  • mortiferousness — deadliness
  • multiflora rose — a climbing or trailing rose, Rosa multiflora, of Japan and Korea, having hooked prickles and fragrant, dense clusters of flowers.
  • neuroscientific — the field of study encompassing the various scientific disciplines dealing with the structure, development, function, chemistry, pharmacology, and pathology of the nervous system.
  • not be yourself — If you say that you are not yourself, you mean you are not feeling well.
  • nuclear fission — fission (def 2).
  • nutty professor — a professor or academic person who is eccentric or slightly crazy or unusual
  • odoriferousness — The quality of being odoriferous.
  • off one's guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
  • outside forward — one of two attacking players who usually play on the far side of the field; wing.
  • passifloraceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Passifloraceae, a tropical and subtropical family of climbing plants including the passionflowers: the flowers have five petals and threadlike parts forming a dense mass (corona) around the central disc
  • perfunctoriness — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • play favourites — to display favouritism
  • please yourself — You say 'please yourself' to indicate in a rather rude way that you do not mind or care whether the person you are talking to does a particular thing or not.
  • posttransfusion — occurring after or as a result of a transfusion
  • pott's fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
  • principal focus — focal point (def 1).
  • puffin crossing — a UK pedestrian road crossing with traffic lights signalling red to stop the traffic flow when pedestrians are seen on the crossing by infrared detectors. The green signal reappears when no pedestrians are seen on the crossing
  • ray of sunshine — beam of sunlight
  • rayside-balfour — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • refuelling stop — a stop made so that fresh fuel can be supplied (to an aircraft, vehicle, etc)
  • refuse disposal — the act of disposing of rubbish and waste
  • resourcefulness — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.
  • retrofocus lens — a wide-angle lens, for use on single-lens reflex cameras, of inverted telephoto design, with a back focus greater than the focal length.
  • right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
  • round whitefish — a whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum, found in northern North America and Siberia, having silvery sides and a dark bronze back.
  • rule one's life — If you say that something rules someone's life, you mean that it affects everything they do, usually in a negative way.
  • sale of produce — the selling of something that is produced, esp agricultural products
  • samuel fb morse — Jedidiah [jed-i-dahy-uh] /ˌdʒɛd ɪˈdaɪ ə/ (Show IPA), 1761–1826, U.S. geographer and Congregational clergyman (father of Samuel F. B. Morse).
  • scotch foursome — foursome (def 2b).
  • security forces — police or soldiers responsible for maintaining security
  • self-authorized — given or endowed with authority: an authorized agent.
  • self-disclosure — the act or an instance of disclosing; exposure; revelation.
  • self-persuasion — the act of persuading or seeking to persuade.
  • self-production — produced by oneself or itself.
  • self-propulsion — propulsion by a vehicle's own engine, motor, or the like.
  • self-regulation — control by oneself or itself, as in an economy, business organization, etc., especially such control as exercised independently of governmental supervision, laws, or the like.
  • self-regulatory — Self-regulatory systems, organizations, or activities are controlled by the people involved in them, rather than by outside organizations or rules.
  • self-renouncing — to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
  • self-supporting — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
  • sense of humour — Someone who has a sense of humour often finds things amusing, rather than being serious all the time.
  • service uniform — a uniform for routine duties and service, as distinguished from work, dress, or full-dress uniforms.
  • shroud of turin — a linen cloth kept in the Cathedral of Turin, Italy, since the late 1500s that bears a faint life-size human image venerated by some as the imprint of the dead body of Jesus.
  • sigmoid flexure — Zoology. an S -shaped curve in a body part.
  • silver fluoride — a yellow or brownish, crystalline, water-soluble, hygroscopic solid, AgF, used chiefly as an antiseptic and disinfectant.
  • slumpflationary — of or relating to slumpflation
  • sodium fluoride — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, NaF, used chiefly in the fluoridation of water, as an insecticide, and as a rodenticide.
  • st. ulmo's fire — St. Elmo's fire.
  • star of courage — a Canadian award for bravery
  • strombuliferous — having organs coiled as spirals
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