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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.
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