13-letter words containing s, u, r, f
- infostructure — The technical infrastructure supporting an information system.
- infrascapular — (anatomy) Beneath the scapula.
- infructuously — in an infructuous or unfruitful manner; fruitlessly
- inns of court — (in England) the four private unincorporated societies in London that function as a law school and have the exclusive privilege of calling candidates to the English bar
- justificatory — serving to justify; providing justification.
- longsuffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
- lump of sugar — lump1 (def 4).
- magnesiferous — (geology) Containing magnesium.
- magnetiferous — (dated) Producing or conducting magnetism.
- mammaliferous — containing the remains of mammals
- manganiferous — containing manganese.
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- manufacturers — Plural form of manufacturer.
- masterfulness — The quality of being masterful.
- metalliferous — containing or yielding metal.
- misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
- mistrustfully — In a mistrustful manner.
- nectariferous — producing nectar.
- nefariousness — extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous: a nefarious plot.
- neurofibromas — Plural form of neurofibroma.
- new braunfels — a city in S Texas, near San Antonio.
- nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
- noncolourfast — (of a fabric) having a colour that tends to fade when washed or worn
- nonconiferous — Not coniferous.
- nurse-midwife — a nurse skilled in assisting women in the prenatal period and in childbirth, especially at home or in another nonhospital setting.
- odoriferously — In an odoriferous manner.
- off-side rule — A lexical convention due to Landin, allowing the scope of declarations in a program to be expressed by indentation. Any non-whitespace token to the left of the first such token on the previous line is taken to be the start of a new declaration. Used in, for example, Miranda and Haskell.
- on course for — If you are on course for something, you are likely to achieve it.
- on sufferance — passive permission resulting from lack of interference; tolerance, especially of something wrong or illegal (usually preceded by on or by).
- out of square — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- out-of-stater — a visitor from another state of the U.S.: Many out-of-staters come to our summer music festival.
- outperformers — Plural form of outperformer.
- over-effusive — unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve: effusive greetings; an effusive person.
- passion fruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
- personal foul — a foul called in certain games, as basketball or football, for illegal body contact or rough, unsportsmanlike play.
- 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.
- pressure-feed — a system in which the supply of material is maintained by applied pressure
- profectitious — (of money or property) proceeding from a parent or derived from an ancestor
- proliferously — by proliferation
- quadrifarious — having four parts
- 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.
- refuse a card — If you refuse a card, you do not allow someone's credit card to be used to pay a bill.