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

  • reptiliferous — (of rocks, etc) yielding fossilized reptiles
  • resource fork — Macintosh file system
  • reverse fault — a fault in which the rock above the fault plane is displaced upward relative to the rock below the fault plane (opposed to gravity fault).
  • rhesus factor — Rh factor.
  • 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.
  • rouse oneself — to become active or energetic
  • ruffed grouse — a North American grouse, Bonasa umbellus, having a tuft of black feathers on each side of the neck.
  • ruled surface — a surface that can be generated by a straight line, as a cylinder or cone.
  • 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.
  • saturated fat — a type of single-bond animal or vegetable fat, as that found in butter, meat, egg yolks, and coconut or palm oil, that in humans tends to increase cholesterol levels in the blood. Compare saturated (def 3).
  • schadenfreude — satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
  • 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
  • sea butterfly — any member of the gastropod order Pteropoda, shelled marine mollusks so called for their ability to swim using winglike extensions of the foot.
  • security firm — a firm which provides guards for buildings, and other security services and personnel
  • self-coloured — of one color.
  • self-destruct — to destroy itself or oneself: The missile is built so that a malfunction will cause it to self-destruct.
  • self-distrust — lack of confidence in oneself, in one's abilities, etc.
  • self-exposure — the act of exposing, laying open, or uncovering: the sudden exposure of objects that were hidden under the blanket.
  • self-incurred — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
  • self-procured — to obtain or get by care, effort, or the use of special means: to procure evidence.
  • self-produced — produced by oneself or itself.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • small fortune — a large sum of money
  • soft currency — econ: fluctuating value
  • soft shoulder — the unpaved edge of a road.
  • solar furnace — a furnace using sunlight concentrated by concave mirrors as the direct source of heat.
  • soundproofing — materials used to make something soundproof
  • 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.
  • spinuliferous — relating to a spine or spines
  • splendiferous — splendid; magnificent; fine.
  • spruce sawfly — any of several sawflies of the family Diprionidae, especially Diprion hercyniae (European spruce sawfly) the larvae of which feed on the foliage of spruce.
  • 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.
  • state funeral — a ceremonial funeral for a head of state, or other very important person
  • 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 derma — kishke.
  • stuffed shirt — a pompous, self-satisfied, and inflexible person.
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