14-letter words containing t, u, r, f, e
- panther fungus — a highly poisonous mushroom, Amanita pantherina, with a brownish cap covered with white cottony patches.
- parturifacient — inducing or accelerating labor, or childbirth; oxytocic.
- pasteur effect — the inhibiting of fermentation by oxygen.
- perfect number — a positive number that is equal to the sum of all positive integers that are submultiples of it, as 6, which is equal to the sum of 1, 2, and 3.
- perfect square — a rational number that is equal to the square of another rational number.
- picture-framer — a person or company whose job is to frame photographs, paintings etc
- pleasure craft — A pleasure craft is the same as a pleasure boat.
- potts-fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
- poultry farmer — a person who rears domestic fowls, esp chickens, for their eggs or meat
- preformulation — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- premanufacture — to manufacture in advance
- preunification — of the period before unification
- profit squeeze — a sharp narrowing of the gap between cost and revenue.
- proximity fuse — an electronically triggered device designed to detonate an explosive charge in a missile, etc, at a predetermined distance from the target
- proximity fuze — a design for detonating a charge, as in a projectile, within a predesignated radius of a target.
- radium sulfate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous, radioactive solid, RaSO 4 , used chiefly in radiotherapy.
- rafferty rules — no rules at all
- rate of return — The rate of return on an investment is the amount of profit it makes, often shown as a percentage of the original investment.
- refugee status — the state of being a person who has fled from some danger or problem, esp political persecution, esp in a foreign country in the eyes of the law
- refund annuity — an annuity providing for a lump-sum payment or installment payments to the beneficiary for the amount remaining of the purchase price at the death of the annuitant.
- remanufacturer — a company or industry that engages in making an existing product new again
- respectfulness — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
- revenue tariff — a tariff or duty imposed on imports primarily to produce public revenue.
- robusta coffee — a coffee tree, Coffea canephora, native to western tropical Africa and cultivated in warm regions of the Old World.
- route flapping — flapping router
- rufflette tape — a kind of heading tape for curtains
- sacrifice bunt — a bunt made by the batter so that a base runner is advanced while the batter is put out
- safety circuit — a type of electronic circuit that prevents malfunction by stopping the flow of current or sounding an alert.
- safety curtain — a sheet of asbestos or other fireproof material that can be lowered just inside the proscenium arch in case of fire, sealing off the backstage area from the auditorium.
- safety feature — sth designed to prevent injury
- safety measure — a measure taken to increase or ensure safety or protection from danger
- saturated fats — 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).
- scotch furnace — ore hearth.
- self-forgetful — forgetful or not thinking of one's own advantage, interest, etc.
- self-laudatory — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.
- self-regulated — governed or controlled from within; self-regulating.
- self-righteous — confident of one's own righteousness, especially when smugly moralistic and intolerant of the opinions and behavior of others.
- self-slaughter — suicide.
- seventy-fourth — next after the seventy-third; being the ordinal number for 74.
- sharp-featured — having very clearly defined facial features
- soft sculpture — sculpture principally in vinyl, canvas, or other flexible material reproducing objects of characteristically rigid construction, as an electric fan, a typewriter, a set of drums, or a bathtub, in forms having a malleable texture and a liquescent, somewhat deflated appearance.
- software house — a commercial organization that specializes in the production of computer software packages
- southern-fried — coated with flour, egg, and bread crumbs and fried in deep fat: Southern-fried chicken.
- sprightfulness — the condition or quality of being sprightful
- stigmatiferous — (of a plant) having a stigma
- store of value — the function of money that enables goods and services to be paid for a considerable time after they have been acquired
- subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
- sulfuric ether — ether (def 1).
- superconfident — very or extremely confident, overly confident
- supereffective — very or extremely effective