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13-letter words containing f, a, r, e, s

  • self-critical — capable of criticizing oneself objectively.
  • self-declared — proclaiming oneself to be
  • self-depraved — corrupt, wicked, or perverted.
  • self-enamored — to fill or inflame with love (usually used in the passive and followed by of or sometimes with): to be enamored of a certain lady; a brilliant woman with whom he became enamored.
  • self-flattery — praise and exaggeration of one's own achievements coupled with a denial or glossing over of one's faults or failings; self-congratulation.
  • self-ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
  • self-ordained — to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon.
  • self-pampered — to treat or gratify with extreme or excessive indulgence, kindness, or care: to pamper a child; to pamper one's stomach.
  • self-portrait — a portrait of oneself done by oneself.
  • self-prepared — properly expectant, organized, or equipped; ready: prepared for a hurricane.
  • self-reliance — reliance on oneself or one's own powers, resources, etc.
  • self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
  • self-starting — starter (def 3).
  • self-training — the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained: He's in training for the Olympics.
  • send away for — order by post
  • sergeant fish — cobia
  • shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
  • shaft feather — one of the two fletchings on an arrow
  • shape-shifter — a creature or thing that can change shape at will or that does so under certain conditions
  • sheep farming — agriculture: sheep raising
  • shelf-stacker — a person whose job is to fill the shelves and displays in a supermarket or other shop with goods for sale
  • short-staffed — A company or place that is short-staffed does not have enough people working there.
  • siege warfare — the use of offensive operations carried out to capture a fortified place by surrounding it, severing its communications and supply lines, and deploying weapons against it
  • single father — a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • slatted floor — a floor made with slats of wood so that water can drain away
  • slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
  • small fortune — a large sum of money
  • snap fastener — A snap fastener is a small metal object used to fasten clothes, made up of two parts which can be pressed together.
  • solar furnace — a furnace using sunlight concentrated by concave mirrors as the direct source of heat.
  • special offer — bargain
  • specrate_fp92 — (benchmark)   A benchmark result derived from the results of a set of floating-point benchmarks (the geometric mean of 14 SPEC rates from CFP92) run multiple times simultaneously, which can be used to estimate a machine's overall multi-tasking throughput for floating-point code. It is typically used on multiprocessor machines. SPECrate_fp92 obsoletes SPECfpThruput89.
  • splatter film — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
  • 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.
  • spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
  • staff officer — a commissioned officer who is a member of a staff.
  • staffordshire — a county in central England. 1154 sq. mi. (2715 sq. km). County seat: Stafford.
  • staghorn fern — any of several epiphytic Old World ferns of the genus Platycerium, having broad, often antlerlike leaves and cultivated as a houseplant.
  • staminiferous — bearing or having a stamen or stamens.
  • start of text — (character)   (STX) Mnemonic for ASCII 2.
  • state funeral — a ceremonial funeral for a head of state, or other very important person
  • straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
  • strategic fit — (in business) the degree to which the activities of different sections of a business or businesses working together complement one another to achieve competitive advantage and business success
  • strong safety — the defensive back assigned to cover the area across from the strong side of the opponent's offensive line and primarily responsible for defending against pass plays.
  • stuffed derma — kishke.
  • sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • sugar of lead — lead acetate.
  • sulfamerazine — a sulfa drug, C11H12N4O2S, a methyl derivative of sulfadiazine that is more rapidly absorbed
  • sulfapyridine — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 1 1 H 1 1 N 3 O 2 S, formerly used for infections caused by pneumococci, now used primarily for a particular dermatitis.
  • sulfate paper — paper made from sulfate pulp.
  • sulfite paper — paper made from sulfite pulp.
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