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13-letter words containing a, f, s

  • show of hands — an indication of approval, disapproval, volunteering, etc., on the part of a group of persons, usually made by each assenting person raising his or her hand.
  • show the flag — to assert a claim, as to a territory or stretch of water, by military presence
  • shy away from — If you shy away from doing something, you avoid doing it, often because you are afraid or not confident enough.
  • 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.
  • slatted floor — a floor made with slats of wood so that water can drain away
  • slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
  • small fortune — a large sum of money
  • small forward — a versatile attacking player
  • snap fastener — A snap fastener is a small metal object used to fasten clothes, made up of two parts which can be pressed together.
  • 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).
  • solar furnace — a furnace using sunlight concentrated by concave mirrors as the direct source of heat.
  • solifidianism — a person who maintains that faith alone, without the performance of good works, is all that is necessary for salvation.
  • soothfastness — the state of being soothfast
  • 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
  • specbase_fp92 — A variant of SPECfp92 that reports "baseline" results, using stricter run rules.
  • 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.
  • specrate_fp92 — (benchmark)   A benchmark result derived from the results of a set of floating-point benchmarks (the geometric mean of 14 SPEC rates from CFP92) run multiple times simultaneously, which can be used to estimate a machine's overall multi-tasking throughput for floating-point code. It is typically used on multiprocessor machines. SPECrate_fp92 obsoletes SPECfpThruput89.
  • splatter film — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
  • spruce sawfly — any of several sawflies of the family Diprionidae, especially Diprion hercyniae (European spruce sawfly) the larvae of which feed on the foliage of spruce.
  • 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 canteen — a canteen or cafeteria in a company, establishment, etc, for members of staff to eat at
  • 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 college — a training centre for executive military personnel
  • staff meeting — company gathering of employees
  • staff of life — bread, considered as the mainstay of the human diet.
  • staff officer — a commissioned officer who is a member of a staff.
  • staff section — section (def 10b).
  • staffordshire — a county in central England. 1154 sq. mi. (2715 sq. km). County seat: Stafford.
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