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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
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