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13-letter words containing f, a, l, c

  • sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
  • scalariformly — in a scalariform or ladder-like manner
  • 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 of law — (in Chinese philosophy) a Neo-Confucian school asserting the existence of transcendent universals, which form individual objects from a primal matter otherwise formless.
  • schutzstaffel — an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force. Abbreviation: SS.
  • 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-chastise — to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
  • self-cleaning — an act or instance of making clean: Give the house a good cleaning.
  • self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
  • self-critical — capable of criticizing oneself objectively.
  • self-declared — proclaiming oneself to be
  • 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-medicate — to medicate oneself without consulting a physician
  • self-reliance — reliance on oneself or one's own powers, resources, etc.
  • self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
  • semi-official — having some degree of official authority.
  • shelf-stacker — a person whose job is to fill the shelves and displays in a supermarket or other shop with goods for sale
  • sidewalk café — a café that has seats outside on the sidewalk
  • significantly — important; of consequence.
  • simplificator — a person who simplifies matters
  • slash fiction — a type or piece of fan fiction involving usually same-sex romantic relationships between fictional characters or famous people, whether or not the romances actually exist: Sherlock Holmes/Dr. Watson slash fiction. Also called slash.
  • slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
  • social misfit — a person who does not conform to others' views of what is normal or acceptable in society
  • solar furnace — a furnace using sunlight concentrated by concave mirrors as the direct source of heat.
  • spadicifloral — having flowers borne on a spadix
  • special offer — bargain
  • special staff — all staff officers assigned to headquarters of a division or higher unit who are not members of the general staff or personal staff.
  • spruce sawfly — any of several sawflies of the family Diprionidae, especially Diprion hercyniae (European spruce sawfly) the larvae of which feed on the foliage of spruce.
  • staff college — a training centre for executive military personnel
  • suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
  • sulfonic acid — any of a large group of organic compounds of the structure RSO 2 OH, which are strong acids that give neutral sodium salts: used in the synthesis of phenols, dyes, and other substances.
  • sulfuric acid — a clear, colorless to brownish, dense, oily, corrosive, water-miscible liquid, H 2 SO 4 , usually produced from sulfur dioxide: used chiefly in the manufacture of fertilizers, chemicals, explosives, and dyestuffs and in petroleum refining.
  • superficially — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • surface plate — Machinery. a flat plate used by machinists for testing surfaces that are to be made perfectly flat.
  • surface-layer — the thin layer of air adjacent to the earth's surface, usually considered to be less than 300 feet (91 meters) high.
  • talking chief — a noble who serves as public spokesperson for the chief in some Polynesian tribes.
  • telefacsimile — facsimile (def 2).
  • the afflicted — afflicted people considered collectively
  • the backfield — the quarterback and running backs in a team
  • the cup final — the annual final of the FA Cup soccer competition, played at Wembley, or the Scottish Cup, played at Hampden Park
  • traffic light — a set of electrically operated signal lights used to direct or control traffic at intersections.
  • trifunctional — pertaining to molecules that can react at three sites.
  • tropical fish — any of numerous small, usually brightly colored fishes, indigenous to the tropics, and often kept and bred in home aquariums.
  • umbraculiform — umbrella-shaped
  • uncamouflaged — the act, means, or result of obscuring things to deceive an enemy, as by painting or screening objects so that they are lost to view in the background, or by making up objects that from a distance have the appearance of fortifications, guns, roads, etc.: Was camouflage used extensively on fighter aircraft during World War I?
  • uncomfortable — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
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