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

  • managerial staff — staff in positions of management
  • matthew flinders — Matthew, 1774–1814, English navigator and explorer: surveyed coast of Australia.
  • mayfield heights — a city in N Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • miraculous fruit — miracle fruit.
  • multifariousness — (uncountable) The characteristic of being multifarious.
  • multiple factors — polygene.
  • non-transferable — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
  • nonfinite clause — a clause with a nonfinite verb or with no verb, as the hour being late in The hour being late, we left.
  • nuclear transfer — the procedure used to produce the first cloned mammals, in which the nucleus of a somatic cell is transferred into an egg cell whose own nucleus has been removed. This cell is then stimulated by an electric shock to divide and form an embryo
  • oak leaf cluster — a U.S. military decoration in the form of a small bronze twig bearing four oak leaves and three acorns, worn on the ribbon of another decoration for valor, wounds, or distinguished service to signify a second award of the same medal.
  • outsmart oneself — to have one's efforts at cunning or cleverness result in one's own disadvantage
  • parts of lindsey — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
  • pass-band filter — band-pass filter
  • permafrost table — the variable surface constituting the upper limit of permafrost. Compare frostline (def 2).
  • personal effects — belongings
  • physical fitness — good physical condition
  • 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.
  • play off against — If you play people off against each other, you make them compete or argue, so that you gain some advantage.
  • point of sailing — the bearing of a sailing vessel, considered with relation to the direction of the wind.
  • quarter-finalist — A quarter-finalist is a person or team that is competing in a quarter-final.
  • 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
  • releasing factor — a substance usually of hypothalamic origin that triggers the release of a particular hormone from an endocrine gland.
  • scotch blackface — one of a Scottish breed of mountain sheep having a black face and growing long, coarse wool.
  • 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-containment — the state of being self-contained.
  • self-cultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
  • self-degradation — the act of degrading.
  • 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-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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