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16-letter words containing c, s, f

  • safety mechanism — a psychological or physiological response in an individual that protects the individual from harm
  • safety-conscious — conscious of being safe and preventing danger
  • sales conference — meeting of salespeople
  • scheme of things — Someone's scheme of things is the way in which they think that things in their life should be organized.
  • schiff's reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
  • schreiner finish — a lustrous surface imparted to a fabric by schreinerizing.
  • score points off — to gain an advantage at someone else's expense
  • scotch blackface — one of a Scottish breed of mountain sheep having a black face and growing long, coarse wool.
  • security officer — civilian, policeman or soldier who is responsible for security in a town or country
  • self-advancement — an act of moving forward.
  • 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-deliverance — suicide.
  • self-deprecating — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
  • 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-descriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
  • self-destruction — the destruction or ruination of oneself or one's life.
  • self-destructive — harmful, injurious, or destructive to oneself: His constant arguing with the boss shows he's a self-destructive person.
  • self-discernment — the faculty of discerning; discrimination; acuteness of judgment and understanding.
  • self-disciplined — Someone who is self-disciplined has the ability to control themselves and to make themselves work hard or behave in a particular way without needing anyone else to tell them what to do.
  • self-enforcement — of or having the capability of enforcement within oneself or itself; self-regulating.
  • self-enhancement — to raise to a higher degree; intensify; magnify: The candlelight enhanced her beauty.
  • self-exculpatory — intended to excuse oneself from blame or guilt
  • self-explication — the act of explicating.
  • self-lubricating — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
  • self-lubrication — the process of becoming lubricated without external factors
  • self-maintenance — the act of maintaining: the maintenance of proper oral hygiene.
  • 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-replicating — reproducing itself by its own power or inherent nature: self-replicating organisms.
  • 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-sacrificial — sacrifice of one's interests, desires, etc., as for duty or the good of another.
  • self-sacrificing — sacrifice of one's interests, desires, etc., as for duty or the good of another.
  • self-subsistence — the state or fact of subsisting.
  • self-sufficiency — able to supply one's own or its own needs without external assistance: The nation grows enough grain to be self-sufficient.
  • self-vindicating — to clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or the like: to vindicate someone's honor.
  • self-vindication — the act of vindicating.
  • self-vulcanizing — to treat (rubber) with sulfur and heat, thereby imparting strength, greater elasticity, durability, etc.
  • service families — families which have a member serving in the armed forces
  • shortfin corvina — See under corvina.
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