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13-letter words containing s, u, i, f

  • petroliferous — containing or yielding petroleum
  • pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
  • platiniferous — platinum-bearing
  • polliniferous — Botany. producing or bearing pollen.
  • porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
  • post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
  • pound-foolish — not handling large sums of money wisely
  • profectitious — (of money or property) proceeding from a parent or derived from an ancestor
  • proliferously — by proliferation
  • pull a fastie — to play a sly trick
  • quadrifarious — having four parts
  • qualifiedness — The property of being qualified (restricted or limited by conditions).
  • quarterfinals — Plural form of quarterfinal.
  • quartziferous — consisting of or containing quartz: quartziferous rock.
  • quasi-federal — pertaining to or of the nature of a union of states under a central government distinct from the individual governments of the separate states, as in federal government; federal system.
  • refurbishment — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
  • reptiliferous — (of rocks, etc) yielding fossilized reptiles
  • right-justify — If printed text is right-justified, each line finishes at the same distance from the right-hand edge of the page or column.
  • russification — Russianize (defs 1, 2).
  • sales figures — the amount of sales of something within a particular time frame
  • sargassumfish — an olive-brown and black frogfish, Histrio histrio, inhabiting tropical Atlantic and western Pacific seas among floating sargassum weed.
  • school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
  • scout uniform — the uniform worn by the Scouts
  • security firm — a firm which provides guards for buildings, and other security services and personnel
  • self-assuming — taking too much for granted; presumptuous.
  • self-delusion — the act or fact of deluding oneself.
  • self-distrust — lack of confidence in oneself, in one's abilities, etc.
  • self-doubting — lacking in confidence
  • self-immunity — the state of being immune from or insusceptible to a particular disease or the like.
  • self-incurred — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
  • self-luminous — radiating or reflecting light; shining; bright.
  • self-occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
  • self-punitive — serving for, concerned with, or inflicting punishment: punitive laws; punitive action.
  • self-ridicule — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
  • self-security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
  • semifurnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
  • seminal fluid — the fluid component of semen, excluding the sperm.
  • sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
  • sigmund freud — Anna, 1895–1982, British psychoanalyst, born in Austria (daughter of Sigmund Freud).
  • silver surfer — elderly internet user
  • single-figure — relating to numbers below ten
  • skill-fulness — having or exercising skill: a skillful juggler.
  • snuff-dipping — the practice of absorbing nicotine by holding in one's mouth, between the cheek and the gum, a small amount of tobacco, either loose or enclosed in a sachet
  • soda fountain — a counter, as in a restaurant or drugstore, at which sodas, ice cream, light meals, etc., are served.
  • soixante-neuf — sixty-nine (def 4).
  • soundproofing — materials used to make something soundproof
  • soup-and-fish — a man's formal evening clothes.
  • soupfin shark — a requiem shark, Galeorhinus zyopterus, inhabiting the Pacific Ocean, valued for its fins, which are used by the Chinese in the preparation of a soup, and for its liver, which is rich in vitamin A.
  • south african — of southern Africa.
  • southern fish — the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
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