15-letter words containing s, u, f, e, r, i
- formation rules — the set of rules that specify the syntax of a formal system; the algorithm that generates the well-formed formulae
- fourteen points — a statement of the war aims of the Allies, made by President Wilson on January 8, 1918.
- fourteen-points — a statement of the war aims of the Allies, made by President Wilson on January 8, 1918.
- francis turbine — a water turbine designed to produce high flow from a low head of pressure: used esp in hydroelectric power generation
- franklin square — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- free university — a school run informally by and for college students, organized to offer courses and approaches not usually offered in a college curriculum.
- french guianese — an overseas department of France, on the NE coast of South America: formerly a French colony. 35,135 sq. mi. (91,000 sq. km). Capital: Cayenne.
- funeral service — ceremony at a burial or cremation
- furniture store — shop: sells furnishings
- fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
- fusospirochetes — Plural form of fusospirochete.
- future interest — an interest in personal or real property, the possession and enjoyment of which is to commence at a later date.
- giant sunflower — a composite plant, Helianthus giganteus, of eastern North America, growing nearly 12 feet (4 meters) high and having very large yellow flower heads.
- hit the buffers — to finish or be stopped, esp unexpectedly
- hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
- inertial fusion — a type of nuclear fusion in which the inertia of matter enables it to fuse by impact, as by pulses of laser radiation or high-energy charged particles, rather than by high temperature
- infrastructures — Plural form of infrastructure.
- interfascicular — pertaining to or forming a fascicle; fasciculate.
- interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
- lateral fissure — the fissure separating the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes of the cerebrum.
- liver of sulfur — sulfurated potash.
- lord of misrule — (in England) a person formerly chosen to direct the Christmas revels and sports.
- margaritiferous — yielding or wearing pearls
- mistrustfulness — Quality of being mistrustful.
- 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.
- nuclear fission — fission (def 2).
- odoriferousness — The quality of being odoriferous.
- 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
- plumbers-friend — Machinery. a pistonlike reciprocating part moving within the cylinder of a pump or hydraulic device.
- purslane family — the plant family Portulacaceae, characterized by chiefly herbaceous plants having simple, often fleshy leaves, sometimes showy flowers, and capsular fruit, and including bitterroot, purslane, red maids, rose moss, and spring beauty.
- quadric surface — a three-dimensional surface whose equation is a quadratic equation.
- quarterfinalist — a participant in a quarterfinal contest.
- ranfurly shield — (in New Zealand) the premier rugby trophy, competed for annually by provincial teams
- ray of sunshine — beam of sunlight
- rayside-balfour — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- ready-furnished — (of a room, house, office, etc) fitted with furniture before being rented or sold
- 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
- relief supplies — food, water, medication, clothes, etc given to people in need, esp in disaster areas
- riemann surface — a geometric representation of a function of a complex variable in which a multiple-valued function is depicted as a single-valued function on several planes, the planes being connected at some of the points at which the function takes on more than one value.
- rime suffisante — full rhyme.
- 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.
- securities firm — a firm that deals in securities
- security forces — police or soldiers responsible for maintaining security