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16-letter words containing c, o, f, e, s

  • self-complacency — pleased with oneself; self-satisfied; smug.
  • self-confinement — the act of confining.
  • self-consequence — self-important character or quality; self-importance.
  • self-constituted — constituted as such by oneself or itself
  • self-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
  • self-containment — the state of being self-contained.
  • self-cultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
  • self-deprecation — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
  • self-deprecatory — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
  • self-description — a statement, picture in words, or account that describes; descriptive representation.
  • self-destruction — the destruction or ruination of oneself or one's life.
  • self-enforcement — of or having the capability of enforcement within oneself or itself; self-regulating.
  • self-exculpatory — intended to excuse oneself from blame or guilt
  • self-explication — the act of explicating.
  • self-lubrication — the process of becoming lubricated without external factors
  • self-preoccupied — preoccupied by one's own concerns
  • self-proclaiming — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
  • self-pronouncing — having the pronunciation indicated, especially by diacritical marks added on original spellings rather than by phonetic symbols: a self-pronouncing dictionary.
  • self-reproducing — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • self-resourceful — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.
  • self-restriction — something that restricts; a restrictive condition or regulation; limitation.
  • self-vindication — the act of vindicating.
  • sit on the fence — to be unable or unwilling to commit oneself
  • society of jesus — a member of a Roman Catholic religious order (Society of Jesus) founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1534.
  • soft commodities — nonmetal commodities such as cocoa, sugar, and grains, bought and sold on a futures market
  • software package — bundle of files to execute computer program
  • sole beneficiary — the only beneficiary
  • something fierce — desperately, intensely
  • spreading factor — a substance, as hyaluronidase, that promotes the diffusion of a material through body tissues
  • staffing officer — someone who recruits, hires, and ensures the interests of staff and employees in an organization
  • stocking stuffer — a small, usually inexpensive gift that is placed with others in a Christmas stocking.
  • stonecrop family — the plant family Crassulaceae, characterized by succulent herbaceous plants and shrubs with simple, fleshy leaves, clusters of small flowers, and dry, dehiscent fruit, and including hen-and-chickens, houseleek, kalanchoe, live-forever, orpine, sedum, and stonecrop.
  • studentification — the renting of particular accommodation exclusively to students
  • subjectification — to make subjective.
  • sulfocarbanilide — thiocarbanilide.
  • superfecundation — the fertilization of two or more ova discharged at the same ovulation by successive acts of sexual intercourse.
  • superunification — a theory intended to describe the electromagnetic force, the strong force, the weak force, and gravity as a single, unified force.
  • sutton coldfield — a town in central England, in Birmingham unitary authority, West Midlands; a residential suburb of Birmingham. Pop: 105 452 (2001)
  • terms of service — the contract for acceptable use of digital media as defined by the developer. Abbreviation: TOS, ToS.
  • the black forest — a hilly wooded region of SW Germany, in Baden-Württemberg: a popular resort area
  • the first couple — the US president and their spouse
  • the welsh office — (formerly) a department of the British government with responsibility for Welsh policies. It was replaced by the Wales office in 1999.
  • to lose track of — If you lose track of someone or something, you no longer know where they are or what is happening.
  • touch of the sun — slight sunstroke
  • tower of silence — a circular stone platform, typically 30 feet (9.1 meter) in height, on which the Parsees of India leave their dead to be devoured by vultures.
  • transfer company — a company that transports people or luggage for a relatively short distance, as between terminals of two railroad lines.
  • twofold purchase — a purchase using a double standing block and a double running block so as to give a mechanical advantage of four or five, neglecting friction, depending on whether the hauling is on the standing block or the running block.
  • velcro fastening — a fastening made of Velcro
  • war of secession — American Civil War.
  • way of the cross — stations of the cross.
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