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12-letter words containing a, e, f

  • sea crayfish — spiny lobster.
  • sea defences — walls, breakwaters and other measures designed to prevent coastal erosion
  • sea of japan — the sea between mainland Asia and Japan
  • sedge family — the plant family Cyperaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, often found in wet areas, having solid stems, narrow, grasslike leaves with closed sheaths, spikes of very small flowers set in a scalelike bract, and a dry, flattened, convex fruit, and including the bulrush, chufa, cotton grass, papyrus, and umbrella plant.
  • self-antigen — autoantigen.
  • self-assured — self-confident.
  • self-basting — (of a turkey) prepared with oil or butter to remain moist when cooked in an oven.
  • self-command — self-control.
  • self-created — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
  • self-damning — causing incrimination: damning evidence.
  • self-dealing — financial transaction conducted on a personal, nonbusinesslike basis, as lending or borrowing of corporate money by a director.
  • self-disdain — to look upon or treat with contempt; despise; scorn.
  • self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
  • self-finance — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
  • self-healing — curing or curative; prescribed or helping to heal.
  • self-heating — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
  • self-loading — noting or pertaining to an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
  • self-mastery — self-control.
  • self-playing — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • self-raising — a rule of transformational grammar that shifts the subject or object of an embedded clause into the subject or object position of the main clause, as in the derivation of The suspect appears to be innocent from It appears that the suspect is innocent.
  • self-reading — the action or practice of a person who reads.
  • self-reliant — relying on oneself or on one's own powers, resources, etc.
  • self-renewal — the act of renewing.
  • self-sealing — capable of sealing itself automatically or without the application of adhesive, glue, or moisture: a self-sealing automobile tire; self-sealing envelopes.
  • self-starter — starter (def 3).
  • self-starved — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
  • self-storage — noting or pertaining to a warehouse or other facility that rents units to people for storing personal possessions.
  • self-tanning — cosmetic substance applied to the skin to simulate a suntan
  • self-tapping — (of a screw) cutting its own thread when screwed into a plain hole in a metal sheet
  • self-treated — to act or behave toward (a person) in some specified way: to treat someone with respect.
  • selfsameness — the quality or state of being selfsame or identical
  • semifinalist — a participant or one qualified to participate in a semifinal.
  • semifloating — noting or pertaining to a driving axle of an automobile or the like, the inner end of which is carried by the differential gear and the outer end of which is keyed to a wheel supported by the axle housing.
  • semiofficial — having some degree of official authority.
  • sergeantfish — the cobia, Rachycentron canadum.
  • service flat — an apartment with complete hotel services.
  • several-fold — comprising several parts or members.
  • shamefacedly — modest or bashful.
  • sharp-freeze — quick-freeze.
  • shatterproof — designed or made to resist shattering: shatterproof glass in automobile windows.
  • sheath knife — a knife carried in a sheath.
  • sheep farmer — sb who raises sheep
  • shelf talker — a cardboard, paper, or plastic advertisement of a product designed to be attached to a shelf on which the product is exhibited for sale.
  • shuffle play — a facility on a compact disc player that randomly selects a track from one of a number of compact discs
  • shuffleboard — a game in which standing players shove or push wooden or plastic disks with a long cue toward numbered scoring sections marked on a floor or deck.
  • shuttlecraft — space shuttle.
  • significance — importance; consequence: the significance of the new treaty.
  • simian shelf — a shelflike thickening along the inside of the mandible, characteristic of the anthropoid apes.
  • simplifiable — having the ability to be made less complicated, clearer, or easier
  • smooth-faced — beardless; smooth-shaven.
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