13-letter words containing c, l, e, f
- reflectometry — the study or science of reflectometer usage and design
- reflex camera — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
- reflex-action — Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
- refocillation — the restoring of strength by refreshment or revivement
- reform school — reformatory (def 2).
- reinforceable — capable of being reinforced
- relief agency — an organization that provides aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
- reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- retroflection — a bending backward.
- ripple effect — a spreading effect or series of consequences caused by a single action or event.
- role conflict — emotional conflict arising when competing demands are made on an individual in the fulfillment of his or her multiple social roles.
- ruled surface — a surface that can be generated by a straight line, as a cylinder or cone.
- sacrifice fly — a fly ball when there are fewer than two players out that enables a base runner, usually at third base, to score after the ball is caught.
- scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
- scarlet fever — a contagious febrile disease caused by streptococci and characterized by a scarlet eruption.
- scathefulness — the state or quality of being harmful or injurious
- school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
- school friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
- schutzstaffel — an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force. Abbreviation: SS.
- schwenkfelder — a member of a Protestant group that emigrated in 1734 from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania, where they organized the Schwenkfelder Church.
- screwworm fly — the adult screwworm.
- second fiddle — a secondary role: to play second fiddle to another person.
- self-advocacy — the practice of having mentally handicapped people speak for themselves and control their own affairs, rather than having nonhandicapped people automatically assume responsibility for them
- self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
- self-centered — concerned solely or chiefly with one's own interests, welfare, etc.; engrossed in self; selfish; egotistical.
- self-chastise — to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
- self-checkout — A self-checkout is a checkout where customers scan, pack and pay for their goods in a store without being served by a sales associate.
- self-cleaning — an act or instance of making clean: Give the house a good cleaning.
- self-coloured — of one color.
- self-composed — being or appearing to be composed; calm.
- self-conflict — to come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash: The account of one eyewitness conflicted with that of the other. My class conflicts with my going to the concert.
- self-conquest — the act or state of conquering or the state of being conquered; vanquishment.
- self-contempt — the feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.
- self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
- self-critical — capable of criticizing oneself objectively.
- self-deceived — holding an erroneous opinion of oneself, one's own effort, or the like.
- self-declared — proclaiming oneself to be
- self-destruct — to destroy itself or oneself: The missile is built so that a malfunction will cause it to self-destruct.
- self-directed — guided, regulated, or managed: a carefully directed program.
- self-educated — educated by one's own efforts, especially without formal instruction.
- self-effacing — the act or fact of keeping oneself in the background, as in humility.
- self-incurred — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
- self-medicate — to medicate oneself without consulting a physician
- self-occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- self-policing — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
- self-procured — to obtain or get by care, effort, or the use of special means: to procure evidence.
- self-produced — produced by oneself or itself.
- self-reliance — reliance on oneself or one's own powers, resources, etc.
- self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
- self-ridicule — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.