14-letter words containing f, a, r, e, l
- santa fe trail — an important trade route going between Independence, Missouri, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, used from about 1821 to 1880.
- self assertive — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
- self-addressed — addressed for return to the sender.
- self-adornment — something that adds attractiveness; ornament; accessory: the adornments and furnishings of a room.
- self-appraisal — the act of estimating or judging the nature or value of something or someone.
- self-assertion — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
- self-assertive — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
- self-assurance — self-confidence.
- self-awareness — the state or condition of being aware; having knowledge; consciousness: The object of the information drive is to raise awareness of what spreads HIV/AIDS.
- self-clearance — the act of clearing.
- self-formation — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
- 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-important — having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompously conceited or haughty.
- self-insurance — insurance of one's property or interests against possible loss by the establishing of a special fund for the purpose instead of seeking coverage with an underwriter.
- self-laudatory — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.
- self-operating — automatic.
- self-operative — automatic.
- self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
- self-regarding — consideration for oneself or one's own interests.
- self-regulated — governed or controlled from within; self-regulating.
- self-replicate — (of a computer virus, etc) to reproduce itself
- self-restraint — restraint imposed on one by oneself; self-control.
- self-revealing — displaying, exhibiting, or disclosing one's most private feelings, thoughts, etc.: an embarrassingly self-revealing autobiography.
- self-sacrifice — sacrifice of one's interests, desires, etc., as for duty or the good of another.
- self-searching — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
- self-slaughter — suicide.
- self-treatment — an act or manner of treating.
- seward's folly — the purchase of Alaska in 1867, through the negotiations of Secretary of State W. H. Seward.
- seyfert galaxy — one of a group of spiral galaxies with compact, bright nuclei having characteristically broad emission lines suggestive of very hot gases in violent motion at the center.
- shortleaf pine — a pine, Pinus echinata, of the southern U.S., having short, flexible leaves.
- sickle feather — one of the paired, elongated, sickle-shaped, middle feathers of the tail of the rooster.
- skeleton draft — a basic or minimum draft or outline
- slide fastener — zipper (def 2).
- slit fricative — a fricative, as (f) or (th), in which the tongue is relatively flat, with air channeled over it through a shallow slit.
- social welfare — social services provided by a government for its citizens.
- space platform — space station.
- speak well for — to say or indicate something favorable about
- special forces — crack military team
- square oneself — to make amends for damage, a wrong, hurt, etc. done by oneself to another
- steer clear of — to guide the course of (something in motion) by a rudder, helm, wheel, etc.: to steer a bicycle.
- store of value — the function of money that enables goods and services to be paid for a considerable time after they have been acquired
- sufferableness — the quality or condition of being sufferable
- sulfinpyrazone — a substance, C 2 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 3 S, used in the treatment of chronic gout.
- superficiality — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
- superficialize — to treat things superficially
- superinflation — hyperinflation.
- take the floor — that part of a room, hallway, or the like, that forms its lower enclosing surface and upon which one walks.
- temperamentful — full of temperament
- the federalist — a set of 85 articles by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, published in 1787 and 1788, analyzing the Constitution of the U.S. and urging its adoption