12-letter words containing s, u, l, f, r
- life support — equipment to sustain a patient's life
- life-support — of or relating to equipment or measures that sustain or artificially substitute for essential body functions, as breathing or disposal of body wastes: Without life-support equipment, the patient might die.
- lower fungus — any of various fungi that do not produce well-organized fruiting bodies and primarily reproduce asexually, as the chytrids.
- lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
- luminiferous — producing light: the luminiferous properties of a gas.
- mass funeral — a funeral held for several dead people at the same time
- mercifulness — full of mercy; characterized by, expressing, or showing mercy; compassionate: a merciful God.
- mirthfulness — joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry: a mirthful laugh.
- mournfulness — The property of being mournful.
- multifarious — having many different parts, elements, forms, etc.
- multiflorous — bearing many flowers, as a peduncle.
- muscle fiber — one of the structural cells of a muscle.
- muscle fibre — any of the numerous elongated contractile cells that make up striated muscle
- neurofibrils — Plural form of neurofibril.
- nonfrivolous — not frivolous
- on all fours — all four limbs or extremities; the four legs or feet of an animal or both arms and both legs or both hands and both feet of a person: The cat rolled off the ledge but landed on all fours.
- overflourish — to flourish excessively
- overfullness — The state of being excessively or abnormally full.
- pasqueflower — an Old World plant, Anemone pulsatilla, of the buttercup family, having purple, crocuslike flowers blooming about Easter.
- perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
- petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
- plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
- powerfulness — having or exerting great power or force.
- pridefulness — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- purposefully — having a purpose.
- pyrosulfuric — of or derived from pyrosulfuric acid; disulfuric.
- refreshfully — in a refreshful manner; refreshingly
- refuse lorry — a lorry used to collect and dispose of rubbish and waste from homes, etc
- respectfully — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
- salutiferous — salutary.
- saronic gulf — an inlet of the Aegean, on the SE coast of Greece, between Attica and the Peloponnesus. 50 miles (80 km) long; 30 miles (48 km) wide.
- seleniferous — containing or yielding selenium.
- self-assured — self-confident.
- self-insurer — one insured under self-insurance.
- self-support — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
- self-torture — the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
- self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- serous fluid — any of various clear, watery fluids in the body.
- shuffleboard — a game in which standing players shove or push wooden or plastic disks with a long cue toward numbered scoring sections marked on a floor or deck.
- shuttlecraft — space shuttle.
- siliciferous — containing, combined with, or producing silica.
- simple fruit — a fruit formed from one pistil.
- soboliferous — bearing or producing soboles
- solid figure — a figure that has three dimensions
- spencer gulf — an inlet of the Indian Ocean in S Australia, between the Eyre and Yorke Peninsulas. Length: about 320 km (200 miles). Greatest width: about 145 km (90 miles)
- sprachgefuhl — a sensitivity to language, especially for what is grammatically or idiomatically acceptable in a given language.
- sprightfully — in a sprightful manner
- squirrelfish — any of several brightly colored, nocturnal fishes of the family Holocentridae, inhabiting shallow waters of tropical reefs, especially the reddish Holocentrus ascensionis of the West Indies, armed with sharp spines and scales.
- stelliferous — having or abounding with stars.