11-letter words containing a, f, l, s
- self-hating — harbouring feelings of self-hatred
- self-hatred — the feeling of one who hates; intense dislike or extreme aversion or hostility.
- self-loader — semiautomatic (def 3).
- self-mailer — an advertisement, booklet, or the like, that has space for a name, address, and postage and can be mailed without a wrapper or envelope.
- self-making — the act of a person or thing that makes: The making of a violin requires great skill.
- self-parody — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
- self-praise — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- self-regard — consideration for oneself or one's own interests.
- self-safety — the state of being safe; freedom from the occurrence or risk of injury, danger, or loss.
- self-slayer — one who kills oneself.
- self-taught — taught to oneself or by oneself to be (as indicated) without the aid of a formal education: self-taught typing; a self-taught typist.
- septifragal — (of a capsule) dehiscing by breaking away from the partitions but remaining attached to the common axis; dehiscing at the valves or backs of the carpels but leaving the septa intact.
- severalfold — comprising several parts or members.
- shaft alley — an enclosure on a ship for housing a propeller shaft and a walk for oilers.
- shelf angle — an angle iron attached to or suspended from a girder to carry masonry or the ends of a number of joists.
- shelf paper — paper used for covering shelves, especially those of a cupboard or kitchen cabinet.
- shelf space — amount of room on shelves
- shelftalker — a promotional sign used by a retailer to draw attention to a featured product on the shelf
- sheriffalty — shrievalty.
- signal flag — a flag used for sending messages to other ships
- silver leaf — silver in the form of very thin foil.
- sioux falls — a city in SE South Dakota.
- slacken off — If something slackens off, it becomes slower, less active, or less intense.
- slant front — a flap of a desk, sloping upward and inward to close the desk, and opening forward and downward to a horizontal position as a writing surface: a form of fall front.
- small stuff — small cordage, as marlines, yarns, etc.
- smiley face — a digital icon, a sequence of keyboard symbols, or a handwritten or printed equivalent, that serves to represent a facial expression, as :‐) for a smiling face or ;‐) for a winking face. Compare emoticon.
- snail fever — schistosomiasis.
- snailflower — a tropical vine, Vigna caracalla, of the legume family, having fragrant, yellowish or purplish flowers, a segment of which is shaped like a snail's shell.
- social fund — (in Britain) a social security fund from which loans or payments may be made to people in cases of extreme need
- social life — leisure time spent with other people
- soft launch — the launch of a website in stages, with regular updating
- soft palate — Anatomy. the roof of the mouth, consisting of an anterior bony portion (hard palate) and a posterior muscular portion (soft palate) that separate the oral cavity from the nasal cavity.
- solar flare — flare (def 22).
- soothfastly — in a soothfast manner
- spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
- spanish fly — Also called cantharides. a preparation of powdered blister beetles, especially the Spanish fly, used medicinally as a counterirritant, diuretic, and aphrodisiac.
- specifiable — that can be specified.
- spiraliform — having or resembling spiral lines
- splashproof — resistant to splashing
- stagflation — an inflationary period accompanied by rising unemployment and lack of growth in consumer demand and business activity.
- steadfastly — fixed in direction; steadily directed: a steadfast gaze.
- steel-faced — having the front or outer surfaces covered with or characterized by steel.
- stick float — a float attached at the top and bottom to the line
- still frame — continuous display of a single frame of a film or of a single picture from a television signal
- strand wolf — brown hyena.
- strawflower — any of several everlasting flowers, especially an Australian composite plant, Helichrysum bracteatum, having heads of chaffy yellow, orange, red, or white flowers.
- studio flat — a flat with one main room
- sub-fascial — a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.
- subaffluent — between poor and affluent
- subclassify — to arrange in subclasses.