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16-letter words containing u, f, o, l

  • powerfully built — (of a person, esp a man) big and physically strong, with large muscles
  • pull a long face — to look sad, glum, disapproving, etc.
  • quinquefoliolate — (botany) Having five leaflets.
  • red flour beetle — a reddish-brown flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, that feeds on stored grain, dried fruit, etc.
  • refuse collector — someone who collects of rubbish and waste, usually in a rubbish or refuse truck, before final disposal
  • rule of the road — any of the regulations concerning the safe handling of vessels under way with respect to one another, imposed by a government on ships in its own waters or upon its own ships on the high seas.
  • self-consequence — self-important character or quality; self-importance.
  • self-constituted — constituted as such by oneself or itself
  • self-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
  • self-cultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
  • self-destruction — the destruction or ruination of oneself or one's life.
  • self-dissolution — the act or process of resolving or dissolving into parts or elements.
  • self-exculpatory — intended to excuse oneself from blame or guilt
  • self-humiliation — an act or instance of humiliating or being humiliated.
  • self-lubrication — the process of becoming lubricated without external factors
  • self-nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
  • self-preoccupied — preoccupied by one's own concerns
  • self-pronouncing — having the pronunciation indicated, especially by diacritical marks added on original spellings rather than by phonetic symbols: a self-pronouncing dictionary.
  • self-questioning — review or scrutiny of one's own motives or behavior.
  • self-reproducing — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • self-resourceful — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.
  • self-stimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • self-subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
  • self-suppression — Psychoanalysis. conscious inhibition of an impulse.
  • shoulder surfing — a form of credit-card fraud in which the perpetrator stands behind and looks over the shoulder of the victim as he or she withdraws money from an automated teller machine, memorizes the card details, and later steals the card
  • snoqualmie falls — falls of the Snoqualmie River, in W Washington. 270 feet (82 meters) high.
  • sodium bisulfate — a colorless crystalline compound, NaHSO 4 , soluble in water: used in dyeing, in the manufacture of cement, paper, soap, and an acid-type cleaner.
  • sodium bisulfite — Sodium bisulfite is a crystalline compound used as an antioxidant and stabilizing agent.
  • soufflé omelette — a very light fluffy dish made with egg yolks and stiffly beaten egg whites
  • south plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
  • step out of line — to fail to conform to expected standards, attitudes, etc
  • sulfamethoxazole — an antimicrobial substance, C 1 0 H 1 1 N 3 O 3 S, used against a variety of susceptible Gram-positive and Gram-negative organisms, as in the treatment of certain urinary tract infections and skin infections.
  • sulfanilyl group — the para form of the group C 6 H 6 NO 2 S–, derived from sulfanilic acid.
  • sulfocarbanilide — thiocarbanilide.
  • sutton coldfield — a town in central England, in Birmingham unitary authority, West Midlands; a residential suburb of Birmingham. Pop: 105 452 (2001)
  • the first couple — the US president and their spouse
  • tierra del fuego — a group of islands at the S tip of South America, separated from the mainland by the Strait of Magellan: jointly owned by Argentina and Chile; boundary disputed. 27,476 sq. mi. (71,165 sq. km).
  • two-family house — a house designed for occupation by two families in contiguous apartments, as on separate floors.
  • twofold purchase — a purchase using a double standing block and a double running block so as to give a mechanical advantage of four or five, neglecting friction, depending on whether the hauling is on the standing block or the running block.
  • ultra filtration — Physical Chemistry. a filter for purifying sols, having a membrane with pores sufficiently small to prevent the passage of the suspended particles.
  • unconfirmability — to establish the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of; corroborate; verify: This report confirms my suspicions.
  • unenforceability — to put or keep in force; compel obedience to: to enforce a rule; Traffic laws will be strictly enforced.
  • utility function — a function relating specific goods and services in an economy to individual preferences
  • utility software — system software that manages and optimizes the performance of hardware
  • well-functioning — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
  • wheel of fortune — wheel (def 9).
  • wrongful trading — the act of allowing a company to continue trading when its insolvency is inevitable
  • yellowfin (tuna) — a tuna (Thunnus albacares) with yellow fins and a yellow stripe on each side, important as a game and food fish and found worldwide in warm seas
  • your better half — If you talk about your better half or your other half you mean your wife, your husband, or the person of the opposite sex that you live with.
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