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16-letter words containing f, a, l, s, e

  • pearls of wisdom — good advice, wise words
  • pearly razorfish — See under razorfish.
  • permafrost table — the variable surface constituting the upper limit of permafrost. Compare frostline (def 2).
  • personal effects — belongings
  • persulfuric acid — Also called Caro's acid, permonosulfuric acid, peroxymonosulfuric acid, peroxysulfuric acid. a white, crystalline solid, H 2 SO 5 , used as an oxidizing agent for certain organic compounds.
  • physical fitness — good physical condition
  • place of worship — religious house: church, temple
  • plaster of paris — calcined gypsum in white, powdery form, used as a base for gypsum plasters, as an additive of lime plasters, and as a material for making fine and ornamental casts: characterized by its ability to set rapidly when mixed with water.
  • pressure flaking — a method of manufacturing a flint tool by pressing flakes from a stone core with a pointed implement, usually of wood tipped with antler or copper.
  • professionalisms — professional character, spirit, or methods.
  • quarter-finalist — A quarter-finalist is a person or team that is competing in a quarter-final.
  • raspberry sawfly — a black sawfly, Monophadnoides geniculatus, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of the raspberry and blackberry.
  • rattlesnake fern — any of several American grape ferns, especially Botrychium virginianium, having clusters of sporangia resembling the rattles of a rattlesnake.
  • rattlesnake flag — any of a number of U.S. flags that bear a picture of a rattlesnake and the motto “Don't Tread on Me,” especially those used during the French and Indian War and the American Revolution.
  • reclassification — categorization in a different way
  • red-flannel hash — hash made of ground corned beef, potatoes, and beets
  • releasing factor — a substance usually of hypothalamic origin that triggers the release of a particular hormone from an endocrine gland.
  • safeguard clause — a clause in a contract, etc, that ensures the protection of something against problems, etc
  • sales conference — meeting of salespeople
  • saxifrage family — the plant family Saxifragaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and small trees having alternate or opposite leaves, clustered or solitary flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including the astilbe, currant, deutzia, gooseberry, hydrangea, mock orange, piggy-back plant, saxifrage, and strawberry geranium.
  • scotch blackface — one of a Scottish breed of mountain sheep having a black face and growing long, coarse wool.
  • seal of approval — royal stamp of endorsement
  • seat of learning — People sometimes refer to a university or a similar institution as a seat of learning.
  • self-abandonment — absence or lack of personal restraint.
  • self-advancement — an act of moving forward.
  • self-advertising — the act or practice of calling public attention to one's product, service, need, etc., especially by paid announcements in newspapers and magazines, over radio or television, on billboards, etc.: to get more customers by advertising.
  • self-affirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
  • self-approbation — approval; commendation.
  • self-complacency — pleased with oneself; self-satisfied; smug.
  • self-containment — the state of being self-contained.
  • self-cultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
  • self-degradation — the act of degrading.
  • self-deliverance — suicide.
  • self-denigrating — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
  • self-denigration — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
  • 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-deprivation — the act of depriving.
  • self-designation — a name taken for oneself or one's own people
  • self-disparaging — that disparages; tending to belittle or bring reproach upon: a disparaging remark.
  • self-dramatizing — exaggerating one's own qualities, role, situation, etc., for dramatic effect or as an attention-getting device; presenting oneself dramatically.
  • self-elaboration — an act or instance of elaborating.
  • self-enhancement — to raise to a higher degree; intensify; magnify: The candlelight enhanced her beauty.
  • self-examination — examination into one's own state, conduct, motives, etc.
  • self-exculpatory — intended to excuse oneself from blame or guilt
  • self-explanatory — explaining itself; needing no explanation; obvious.
  • self-explication — the act of explicating.
  • self-humiliation — an act or instance of humiliating or being humiliated.
  • self-indignation — strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base; righteous anger.
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