13-letter words containing a, f, m, i, s
- self-assuming — taking too much for granted; presumptuous.
- self-estimate — to form an approximate judgment or opinion regarding the worth, amount, size, weight, etc., of; calculate approximately: to estimate the cost of a college education.
- 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
- 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.
- sheep farming — agriculture: sheep raising
- simplificator — a person who simplifies matters
- single-family — designed or suitable for one family of average size: single-family homes.
- social misfit — a person who does not conform to others' views of what is normal or acceptable in society
- solifidianism — a person who maintains that faith alone, without the performance of good works, is all that is necessary for salvation.
- specific name — the second part in the name of a species, such as norvegicus in Rattus norvegicus
- 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 meeting — company gathering of employees
- staminiferous — bearing or having a stamen or stamens.
- state of mind — mental condition, mood
- storax family — the plant family Styracaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having simple, alternate leaves, clusters of bell-shaped white flowers, and fleshy or dry fruit, and including the silver bell, snowbell, and storax.
- sugar of milk — lactose.
- sulfadimidine — an antibacterial sulfa drug used in human and veterinary medicine. It is effective against chlamydia, toxoplasma, and cocidia
- sulfamerazine — a sulfa drug, C11H12N4O2S, a methyl derivative of sulfadiazine that is more rapidly absorbed
- sulfanilamide — a white, crystalline amide of sulfanilic acid, C 6 H 8 N 2 O 2 S, formerly used in the treatment of bacterial infections: replaced by its derivatives and by antibiotics.
- teasel family — the plant family Dipsacaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having opposite or whorled leaves, dense flower heads surrounded by an involucre, and small, dry fruit, and including the scabious and teasel.
- telefacsimile — facsimile (def 2).
- to stand firm — If someone stands firm, they refuse to change their mind about something.
- transfeminine — noting or relating to a person who was born male but whose gender identity is more female than male.
- transfeminism — a movement supporting the belief that the rights of transgender women are linked to the feminist movement, specifically the right to assume a gender identity that does not correspond to one’s biological sex assigned at birth.
- trash farming — cultivation by leaving stubble, etc, on the surface of the soil to serve as a mulch
- twin camshaft — A twin camshaft is an arrangement of two parallel camshafts for each set of cylinders in an engine. Usually one operates the intake valve and the other the exhaust valve.
- ultra-leftism — the beliefs of extremely left-wing political parties or groups
- vinson massif — a mountain in Antarctica, near the Ronne Ice Shelf: highest point on Antarctica; discovered 1935. About 16,864 feet (5140 meters).
- words fail me — I am too happy, sad, amazed, etc, to express my thoughts