15-letter words containing s, o, u, r, f
- subprofessional — being below professional standards: subprofessional health care.
- sulfite process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an acid liquor consisting of sulfurous acid and a salt, usually calcium bisulfite.
- sulfur trioxide — an irritant, corrosive, low-melting solid, SO 3 , obtained by the oxidation of sulfur dioxide, used as an intermediate in the manufacture of sulfuric acid.
- summary offence — an offence that is triable in a magistrates' court
- summer flounder — a flounder, Paralichthys dentatus, inhabiting shallow waters from Cape Cod to South Carolina, valued as food.
- sunflower seeds — the seeds of a sunflower, which can be eaten
- sunflower state — Kansas (used as a nickname).
- superconfidence — great or extreme confidence, overconfidence
- superfluousness — being more than is sufficient or required; excessive.
- supporting film — a film that accompanies the main feature film in a film programme
- surface tension — the elasticlike force existing in the surface of a body, especially a liquid, tending to minimize the area of the surface, caused by asymmetries in the intermolecular forces between surface molecules.
- tentaculiferous — having tentacles
- thermodiffusion — thermal diffusion.
- tourist traffic — the number of tourists that visit an area
- transfer lounge — the place in an airport where you wait for a transfer from one flight to another
- transfiguration — the act of transfiguring.
- transform fault — a strike-slip fault that offsets a mid-ocean ridge in opposing directions on either side of an axis of seafloor spreading.
- trout fisherman — a fisherman who catches trout
- ultrafastidious — extremely fastidious
- un-fortuitously — happening or produced by chance; accidental: a fortuitous encounter.
- under sb's roof — If something happens under your roof, it happens in your home.
- undress uniform — a uniform worn on other than formal occasions.
- unforgivingness — not disposed to forgive or show mercy; unrelenting.
- unfossiliferous — (of sediment, clay, rock, etc) not containing fossils
- work oneself up — become overwrought
- writ of summons — a writ requiring one to appear in court to answer a complaint.
- wrongful arrest — the act of arresting someone without proper reason