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14-letter words containing d, e, f, n

  • self-adornment — something that adds attractiveness; ornament; accessory: the adornments and furnishings of a room.
  • self-adulation — excessive devotion to someone; servile flattery.
  • self-appointed — chosen by oneself to act in a certain capacity or to fulfill a certain function, especially pompously or self-righteously: a self-appointed guardian of the public's morals.
  • self-conceited — an excessively favorable opinion of oneself, one's abilities, etc.; vanity.
  • self-condemned — to express an unfavorable or adverse judgment on; indicate strong disapproval of; censure.
  • self-confessed — openly admitting to being a type of person with a particular quality, habit, character, etc.: He's a self-confessed gambler.
  • self-confident — realistic confidence in one's own judgment, ability, power, etc.
  • self-contained — containing in oneself or itself all that is necessary; independent.
  • self-contented — contented with what one is or has
  • self-deceiving — subject to self-deception; tending to deceive or fool oneself: a self-deceiving person.
  • self-deception — the act or fact of deceiving oneself.
  • self-defeating — serving to frustrate, thwart, etc., one's own intention or interests: His behavior was certainly self-defeating.
  • self-dependent — relying on someone or something else for aid, support, etc.
  • self-deserving — qualified for or having a claim to reward, assistance, etc., because of one's actions, qualities, or situation: the deserving poor; a deserving applicant.
  • self-diagnosis — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
  • self-diffusion — act of diffusing; state of being diffused.
  • self-directing — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
  • self-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
  • self-dominance — rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
  • self-engrossed — to occupy completely, as the mind or attention; absorb: Their discussion engrossed his attention. She is engrossed in her work.
  • self-expanding — to increase in extent, size, volume, scope, etc.: Heat expands most metals. He hopes to expand his company.
  • self-generated — made without the aid of an external agent; produced spontaneously.
  • self-hardening — noting or pertaining to any of various steels that harden after heating without quenching or other treatment.
  • self-impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
  • self-induction — the process by which an electromotive force is induced in a circuit by a varying current in that circuit.
  • self-indulgent — indulging one's own desires, passions, whims, etc., especially without restraint.
  • self-inflicted — inflicted by oneself upon oneself: a self-inflicted wound.
  • self-initiated — initiated or begun by oneself.
  • self-knowledge — knowledge or understanding of oneself, one's character, abilities, motives, etc.
  • self-laudation — an act or instance of lauding; encomium; tribute.
  • self-mediating — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • self-recording — recording automatically, as an instrument.
  • self-regarding — consideration for oneself or one's own interests.
  • self-surrender — the surrender or yielding up of oneself, one's will, affections, etc., as to another person, an influence, or a cause.
  • 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
  • shortened form — an abbreviated form of a multisyllable word; clipped form.
  • siegfried line — a zone of fortifications in W Germany facing the Maginot Line, constructed in the years preceding World War II.
  • skeleton draft — a basic or minimum draft or outline
  • slide fastener — zipper (def 2).
  • southern-fried — coated with flour, egg, and bread crumbs and fried in deep fat: Southern-fried chicken.
  • stand the gaff — harsh treatment or criticism: All the gaff he took never made him bitter.
  • stockade fence — a fence of closely fitted vertical boards with pointed tops.
  • 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.
  • sulfantimonide — any compound containing an antimonide and a sulfide.
  • superconfident — very or extremely confident, overly confident
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