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13-letter words containing a, f, i, s

  • self-managing — to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
  • self-medicate — to medicate oneself without consulting a physician
  • self-negating — to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: an investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
  • self-ordained — to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon.
  • self-pleasing — giving pleasure; agreeable; gratifying: a pleasing performance.
  • self-portrait — a portrait of oneself done by oneself.
  • self-reliance — reliance on oneself or one's own powers, resources, etc.
  • self-standing — An object or structure that is self-standing is not supported by other objects or structures.
  • self-starting — starter (def 3).
  • self-training — the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained: He's in training for the Olympics.
  • semi-finalist — A semi-finalist is a player, athlete, or team that is competing in a semi-final.
  • semi-official — having some degree of official authority.
  • seminal fluid — the fluid component of semen, excluding the sperm.
  • sergeant fish — cobia
  • shape-shifter — a creature or thing that can change shape at will or that does so under certain conditions
  • shark finning — the practice of catching sharks, removing their fins (which are commercially valuable) and throwing the rest of the shark back into the sea (often while it is still alive, but doomed to drown because it cannot swim without its fins)
  • sheep farming — agriculture: sheep raising
  • ship of state — a nation or its affairs likened to a ship under sail.
  • sidewalk café — a café that has seats outside on the sidewalk
  • siege warfare — the use of offensive operations carried out to capture a fortified place by surrounding it, severing its communications and supply lines, and deploying weapons against it
  • sign of peace — the liturgical practice of giving a sign of peace, union, or friendship, as a handshake or embrace, at some point in a Christian service, esp. in a Mass or Communion service
  • significances — importance; consequence: the significance of the new treaty.
  • significantly — important; of consequence.
  • signification — meaning; import; sense.
  • significative — serving to signify.
  • significatory — serving to signify
  • simplificator — a person who simplifies matters
  • single father — a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • single-family — designed or suitable for one family of average size: single-family homes.
  • skin grafting — the transplanting of healthy skin from the patient's or another's body to a wound or burn, to form new skin.
  • slash fiction — a type or piece of fan fiction involving usually same-sex romantic relationships between fictional characters or famous people, whether or not the romances actually exist: Sherlock Holmes/Dr. Watson slash fiction. Also called slash.
  • slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
  • social misfit — a person who does not conform to others' views of what is normal or acceptable in society
  • soda fountain — a counter, as in a restaurant or drugstore, at which sodas, ice cream, light meals, etc., are served.
  • soixante-neuf — sixty-nine (def 4).
  • solifidianism — a person who maintains that faith alone, without the performance of good works, is all that is necessary for salvation.
  • 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.
  • space fiction — a book, film, TV series, etc, set in outer space
  • spadicifloral — having flowers borne on a spadix
  • special offer — bargain
  • special staff — all staff officers assigned to headquarters of a division or higher unit who are not members of the general staff or personal staff.
  • specific heat — the number of calories required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance 1°C, or the number of BTU's per pound per degree F.
  • specific name — the second part in the name of a species, such as norvegicus in Rattus norvegicus
  • specification — the act of specifying.
  • splatter film — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
  • spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
  • staff captain — a person who assists the master of a large ocean passenger vessel, being especially responsible for safety apparatus, fire and lifeboat drills, etc.
  • staff meeting — company gathering of employees
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