13-letter words containing u, f, o
- self-produced — produced by oneself or itself.
- sensate focus — a series of touching exercises designed to increase intimacy in a sexual relationship
- 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
- small fortune — a large sum of money
- soda fountain — a counter, as in a restaurant or drugstore, at which sodas, ice cream, light meals, etc., are served.
- soft currency — econ: fluctuating value
- soft shoulder — the unpaved edge of a road.
- soixante-neuf — sixty-nine (def 4).
- solar furnace — a furnace using sunlight concentrated by concave mirrors as the direct source of heat.
- sound effects — any sounds artificially produced, reproduced from a recording, etc, to create a theatrical effect, such as the bringing together of two halves of a hollow coconut shell to simulate a horse's gallop; used in plays, films, etc
- soundproofing — materials used to make something soundproof
- soup-and-fish — a man's formal evening clothes.
- 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.
- staminiferous — bearing or having a stamen or stamens.
- step function — a function that is constant on each of a finite set of subintervals of its domain, the union of the subintervals being the domain.
- 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
- suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- suffolk punch — a breed of draught horse with a chestnut coat and short legs
- sugar factory — a factory which refines sugar from organic sources into a form that can be used in cooking etc
- sugar of lead — lead acetate.
- sugar of milk — lactose.
- sulfathiazole — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 9 H 9 N 3 O 2 S 2 , formerly used in the treatment of pneumonia and staphylococcal infections, but now largely replaced because of its toxicity.
- sulfisoxazole — a white to yellowish, crystalline, slightly bitter sulfonamide, C 1 1 H 1 3 N 3 O 3 S, used chiefly in the treatment of infections of the urinary tract.
- sulfonic acid — any of a large group of organic compounds of the structure RSO 2 OH, which are strong acids that give neutral sodium salts: used in the synthesis of phenols, dyes, and other substances.
- sulfonmethane — a colorless, crystalline compound, C7H16O4S2, used in medicine as a soporific and hypnotic
- sulfur-bottom — blue whale.
- sulfur-flower — a plant, Eriogonum umbellatum, of the buckwheat family, native to the western coast of the U.S., having leaves with white, woolly hairs on the underside and golden-yellow flowers.
- sunflower oil — oil obtained from sunflower seeds
- superfetation — the fertilization of an ovum in a female mammal already pregnant.
- superfluously — being more than is sufficient or required; excessive.
- superfortress — a heavy, long-range, four-engined bomber used during World War II.
- superpowerful — extremely powerful
- surface noise — extraneous noise caused by physical wear or a physical flaw on a phonograph record or in a pickup system, rather than by a flaw in the equipment.
- surfer's knot — a tumorlike nodule below a surfer's knee or on the upper area of the foot, caused by pressure on the skin and tissue exerted by the surfboard.
- tablespoonful — the amount a tablespoon can hold.
- tetrafluoride — a fluoride containing four fluorine atoms.
- think much of — to have a high opinion of
- thirty-fourth — next after the thirty-third; being the ordinal number for 34.
- three-fourths — In American English, people sometimes use three-fourths to mean three-quarters.
- thurification — the act of incense-burning
- to bear fruit — If the effort that you put into something or a particular way of doing something bears fruit, it is successful and produces good results.
- tour de force — an exceptional achievement by an artist, author, or the like, that is unlikely to be equaled by that person or anyone else; stroke of genius: Herman Melville's Moby Dick was a tour de force.
- traffic court — a court that passes on alleged violations of traffic laws.
- transfusional — of or relating to transfusion