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

  • of set purpose — with a specific end in view
  • on the surface — to all appearances
  • overfastidious — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
  • panther fungus — a highly poisonous mushroom, Amanita pantherina, with a brownish cap covered with white cottony patches.
  • pasteur effect — the inhibiting of fermentation by oxygen.
  • perfect square — a rational number that is equal to the square of another rational number.
  • pleasure craft — A pleasure craft is the same as a pleasure boat.
  • potts-fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
  • profit squeeze — a sharp narrowing of the gap between cost and revenue.
  • proximity fuse — an electronically triggered device designed to detonate an explosive charge in a missile, etc, at a predetermined distance from the target
  • quasi-infinite — immeasurably great: an infinite capacity for forgiveness.
  • radium sulfate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous, radioactive solid, RaSO 4 , used chiefly in radiotherapy.
  • rafferty rules — no rules at all
  • refugee status — the state of being a person who has fled from some danger or problem, esp political persecution, esp in a foreign country in the eyes of the law
  • respectfulness — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
  • robusta coffee — a coffee tree, Coffea canephora, native to western tropical Africa and cultivated in warm regions of the Old World.
  • sacrifice bunt — a bunt made by the batter so that a base runner is advanced while the batter is put out
  • safety circuit — a type of electronic circuit that prevents malfunction by stopping the flow of current or sounding an alert.
  • safety curtain — a sheet of asbestos or other fireproof material that can be lowered just inside the proscenium arch in case of fire, sealing off the backstage area from the auditorium.
  • safety feature — sth designed to prevent injury
  • safety measure — a measure taken to increase or ensure safety or protection from danger
  • safety squeeze — squeeze play (def 1b).
  • saturated fats — a type of single-bond animal or vegetable fat, as that found in butter, meat, egg yolks, and coconut or palm oil, that in humans tends to increase cholesterol levels in the blood. Compare saturated (def 3).
  • scotch furnace — ore hearth.
  • 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
  • self-adulation — excessive devotion to someone; servile flattery.
  • self-executing — going into effect immediately without the need of supplementary legislation: a self-executing treaty.
  • self-forgetful — forgetful or not thinking of one's own advantage, interest, etc.
  • self-induction — the process by which an electromotive force is induced in a circuit by a varying current in that circuit.
  • self-indulgent — indulging one's own desires, passions, whims, etc., especially without restraint.
  • self-laudation — an act or instance of lauding; encomium; tribute.
  • self-laudatory — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.
  • self-publicist — someone who is skilled at promoting him or herself
  • self-regulated — governed or controlled from within; self-regulating.
  • self-righteous — confident of one's own righteousness, especially when smugly moralistic and intolerant of the opinions and behavior of others.
  • self-slaughter — suicide.
  • self-valuation — an estimated value or worth.
  • seventy-fourth — next after the seventy-third; being the ordinal number for 74.
  • sharp-featured — having very clearly defined facial features
  • sodium sulfate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na 2 SO 4 , used chiefly in the manufacture of dyes, soaps, detergents, glass, and ceramic glazes.
  • sodium sulfite — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na 2 SO 3 , used chiefly as a food preservative, as a bleaching agent, and as a developer in photography.
  • soft sculpture — sculpture principally in vinyl, canvas, or other flexible material reproducing objects of characteristically rigid construction, as an electric fan, a typewriter, a set of drums, or a bathtub, in forms having a malleable texture and a liquescent, somewhat deflated appearance.
  • software house — a commercial organization that specializes in the production of computer software packages
  • southern-fried — coated with flour, egg, and bread crumbs and fried in deep fat: Southern-fried chicken.
  • sprightfulness — the condition or quality of being sprightful
  • state function — a thermodynamic quantity that has definite values for given states of a system, such as entropy, enthalpy, free energy, etc
  • stigmatiferous — (of a plant) having a stigma
  • stomachfulness — the quality of being stomachful
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