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

  • spinuliferous — relating to a spine or spines
  • splendiferous — splendid; magnificent; fine.
  • spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
  • staminiferous — bearing or having a stamen or stamens.
  • step function — a function that is constant on each of a finite set of subintervals of its domain, the union of the subintervals being the domain.
  • stick out for — If you stick out for something, you keep demanding it and do not accept anything different or less.
  • stoloniferous — producing or bearing stolons.
  • strombuliform — in the shape of a coil
  • stuffed shirt — a pompous, self-satisfied, and inflexible person.
  • stultifyingly — to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous.
  • sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • subjectifying — to make subjective.
  • suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
  • sugar of milk — lactose.
  • sulfadimidine — an antibacterial sulfa drug used in human and veterinary medicine. It is effective against chlamydia, toxoplasma, and cocidia
  • sulfamerazine — a sulfa drug, C11H12N4O2S, a methyl derivative of sulfadiazine that is more rapidly absorbed
  • sulfanilamide — a white, crystalline amide of sulfanilic acid, C 6 H 8 N 2 O 2 S, formerly used in the treatment of bacterial infections: replaced by its derivatives and by antibiotics.
  • sulfapyridine — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 1 1 H 1 1 N 3 O 2 S, formerly used for infections caused by pneumococci, now used primarily for a particular dermatitis.
  • sulfasalazine — a substance, C 1 8 H 1 4 N 4 O 5 S, used in the treatment of ulcerative colitis.
  • sulfathiazole — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 9 H 9 N 3 O 2 S 2 , formerly used in the treatment of pneumonia and staphylococcal infections, but now largely replaced because of its toxicity.
  • sulfisoxazole — a white to yellowish, crystalline, slightly bitter sulfonamide, C 1 1 H 1 3 N 3 O 3 S, used chiefly in the treatment of infections of the urinary tract.
  • sulfite paper — paper made from sulfite pulp.
  • sulfonic acid — any of a large group of organic compounds of the structure RSO 2 OH, which are strong acids that give neutral sodium salts: used in the synthesis of phenols, dyes, and other substances.
  • sulfur spring — a spring the water of which contains naturally occurring sulfur compounds.
  • sulfuric acid — a clear, colorless to brownish, dense, oily, corrosive, water-miscible liquid, H 2 SO 4 , usually produced from sulfur dioxide: used chiefly in the manufacture of fertilizers, chemicals, explosives, and dyestuffs and in petroleum refining.
  • sunflower oil — oil obtained from sunflower seeds
  • superfetation — the fertilization of an ovum in a female mammal already pregnant.
  • superficially — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • superfluidity — a fluid that exhibits frictionless flow, very high heat conductivity, and other unusual physical properties, helium below 2.186 K being the only known example.
  • superterrific — more than terrific
  • surface noise — extraneous noise caused by physical wear or a physical flaw on a phonograph record or in a pickup system, rather than by a flaw in the equipment.
  • surfing music — rock-'n'-roll music from California in the early 1960s, characterized by close treble harmonies and with lyrics emphasizing the exhilaration of surfing and beach life.
  • swift current — a city in SW Saskatchewan, in S Canada.
  • trade figures — a record of how much a country has paid for goods which it has bought from other countries, compared with how much it has been paid for goods which it has sold to other countries
  • transfusional — of or relating to transfusion
  • transfusively — in a transfusive manner
  • trout fishing — angling to catch trout
  • tubuliflorous — having the corolla tubular in all the perfect flowers of a head, as certain composite plants.
  • ultra-leftism — the beliefs of extremely left-wing political parties or groups
  • ultra-leftist — a person with extremely left-wing political views
  • umbelliferous — bearing an umbel or umbels.
  • underfinished — (of a farm animal) not having developed enough flesh
  • understaffing — the condition of being understaffed or of lacking a number of employees
  • undiscomfited — not discomfited; at ease
  • undiversified — distinguished by various forms or by a variety of objects: diversified activity.
  • undutifulness — the quality of being undutiful
  • unfalsifiable — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
  • unfascinating — of great interest or attraction; enchanting; charming; captivating: a fascinating story; fascinating jewelry.
  • unfashionable — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
  • unfashionably — in an unfashionable manner
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