14-letter words containing a, n, f
- self-regarding — consideration for oneself or one's own interests.
- self-restraint — restraint imposed on one by oneself; self-control.
- self-revealing — displaying, exhibiting, or disclosing one's most private feelings, thoughts, etc.: an embarrassingly self-revealing autobiography.
- self-searching — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
- self-treatment — an act or manner of treating.
- self-valuation — an estimated value or worth.
- semantic field — an area of human experience or perception, as color, that is delimited and subcategorized by a set of interrelated vocabulary items in a language.
- shamefacedness — modest or bashful.
- shark-infested — (of a body of water) known to contain large numbers of sharks, and therefore considered to be dangerous
- shifting sands — If you refer to the shifting sands of a situation, you mean that it changes so often that it is difficult to deal with.
- shoo-fly plant — apple of Peru.
- shortleaf pine — a pine, Pinus echinata, of the southern U.S., having short, flexible leaves.
- shoshone falls — waterfall on the Snake River, in S Ida.: c. 200 ft (61 m)
- simplification — to make less complex or complicated; make plainer or easier: to simplify a problem.
- skeleton draft — a basic or minimum draft or outline
- skeleton staff — the minimum staff needed by a company during a time where most staff do not normally work, such as a holiday, weekend, etc
- slide fastener — zipper (def 2).
- snap out of it — return quickly to normal
- snifting valve — a valve for releasing small quantities of steam, compressed air, or condensate, as from the cylinder of a steam engine.
- snowball fight — game: throwing balls of snow
- snowflake baby — a baby born following the transfer of a surplus embryo produced during the in-vitro fertilization of one woman to the womb of another woman who was not a cell donor
- soft margarine — a soft, spreadable margarine that is made with more liquid oils and less hydrogenated oils than hard, block margarine
- solidification — to make solid; make into a hard or compact mass; change from a liquid or gaseous to a solid form.
- son of a bitch — a contemptible or thoroughly disagreeable person; scoundrel.
- spearfisherman — a person who engages in spearfishing.
- spinning frame — a machine for drawing, twisting, and winding yarn.
- sportfisherman — a motorboat fitted out for sportfishing.
- springform pan — a metal cake pan with sides that can be unfastened to facilitate releasing the cake when done.
- square oneself — to make amends for damage, a wrong, hurt, etc. done by oneself to another
- staff discount — a discount off goods sold by a particular shop, given to members of staff of that shop
- staff sergeant — U.S. Air Force. a noncommissioned officer ranking below a technical sergeant and above an airman first class.
- staff training — training to improve the performance or knowledge of the employees or workforce or a company, etc
- staffing ratio — the ratio of the staff or workforce of a place to another group, for example to staff in another department, the ratio of patients to nurses in a hospital, or the ratio of pupils to teachers in a school
- stagflationary — of, caused by, or relating to, stagflation
- stand the gaff — harsh treatment or criticism: All the gaff he took never made him bitter.
- stand-off half — a player who acts as a link between his scrum half and three-quarter backs
- state function — a thermodynamic quantity that has definite values for given states of a system, such as entropy, enthalpy, free energy, etc
- stock transfer — Stock transfer is the act of moving goods from one part of the distribution chain to another.
- stockade fence — a fence of closely fitted vertical boards with pointed tops.
- stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
- stomachfulness — the quality of being stomachful
- stop-and-frisk — a policy that permits a police officer to momentarily detain and pat down or search a person suspected of criminal activity, especially when suspected of concealing a weapon.
- stratification — the act or an instance of stratifying.
- strong forward — power forward
- stuffed animal — soft toy
- subinfeudation — the granting of a portion of an estate by a feudal tenant to a subtenant, held from the tenant on terms similar to those of the grant to the tenant.
- subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
- sufferableness — the quality or condition of being sufferable
- sugar refinery — place where sugar is processed
- sulfantimonide — any compound containing an antimonide and a sulfide.