14-letter words containing f, a, s, t, e, l
- music festival — a festival, often an annual event, at which a lot of different performers play
- nonfilamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
- ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
- patresfamilias — a plural of paterfamilias.
- pay for itself — If something that you buy or invest in pays for itself after a period of time, the money you gain from it, or save because you have it, is greater than the amount you originally spent or invested.
- personal staff — the aides of a general officer or a flag officer.
- platform scale — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
- platform shoes — shoes: thick sole
- platform soles — very thick soles on a pair of shoes
- pleasure craft — A pleasure craft is the same as a pleasure boat.
- radium sulfate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous, radioactive solid, RaSO 4 , used chiefly in radiotherapy.
- rafferty rules — no rules at all
- repeat oneself — to say or do the same thing more than once, esp so as to be tedious
- safety islands — a group of three small French islands in the Atlantic, off the coast of French Guiana
- sales forecast — a prediction of future sales of a product, either judgmental or based on previous sales patterns
- santa fe trail — an important trade route going between Independence, Missouri, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, used from about 1821 to 1880.
- scientifically — of or relating to science or the sciences: scientific studies.
- self assertive — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
- self-abasement — humiliation of oneself, especially as a result of guilt, shame, or the like.
- self-actualize — to undergo self-actualization.
- self-actuating — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
- self-adjusting — that adjusts itself in response to circumstances
- 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-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-contained — containing in oneself or itself all that is necessary; independent.
- self-dedicated — wholly committed to something, as to an ideal, political cause, or personal goal: a dedicated artist.
- self-defeating — serving to frustrate, thwart, etc., one's own intention or interests: His behavior was certainly self-defeating.
- 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-important — having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompously conceited or haughty.
- self-initiated — initiated or begun by oneself.
- self-laudation — an act or instance of lauding; encomium; tribute.
- self-laudatory — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.
- self-mediating — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
- self-motivated — initiative to undertake or continue a task or activity without another's prodding or supervision.
- self-operating — automatic.
- self-operative — automatic.
- 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-satisfied — feeling or showing satisfaction with oneself.
- self-slaughter — suicide.
- self-stability — the state or quality of being stable.
- self-treatment — an act or manner of treating.
- self-valuation — an estimated value or worth.
- 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.
- 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.