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16-letter words containing f, a, t, i, e, s

  • self-deprecation — 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-examination — examination into one's own state, conduct, motives, etc.
  • 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.
  • self-integrating — to bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole.
  • self-integration — an act or instance of combining into an integral whole.
  • self-liquidating — capable of being sold and converted into cash within a short period of time or before the date on which the supplier must be paid.
  • self-lubricating — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
  • self-lubrication — the process of becoming lubricated without external factors
  • self-maintenance — the act of maintaining: the maintenance of proper oral hygiene.
  • self-observation — an act or instance of noticing or perceiving.
  • self-opinionated — conceited; having an inordinately high regard for oneself, one's own opinions, views, etc.
  • self-pollination — the transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of the same flower, another flower on the same plant, or the flower of a plant of the same clone.
  • self-preparation — a proceeding, measure, or provision by which one prepares for something: preparations for a journey.
  • self-propagating — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
  • self-realization — the fulfillment of one's potential.
  • self-referential — If you describe something such as a book or film as self-referential, you mean that it is concerned with things such as its own composition or with other similar books or films.
  • self-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
  • self-replicating — reproducing itself by its own power or inherent nature: self-replicating organisms.
  • self-stimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • self-subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
  • self-sustainment — self-supporting.
  • self-terminating — to bring to an end; put an end to: to terminate a contract.
  • self-vindicating — to clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or the like: to vindicate someone's honor.
  • self-vindication — the act of vindicating.
  • shifting spanner — an adjustable spanner
  • silky flycatcher — any of several passerine birds of the family Ptilogonatidae, of the southwestern U.S. to Panama, related to the waxwings.
  • slap in the face — smack on the cheek
  • small/fine print — The small print or the fine print of something such as an advertisement or a contract consists of the technical details and legal conditions, which are often printed in much smaller letters than the rest of the text.
  • smelting furnace — an industrial oven used to heat ore in order to extract metal
  • sodium bisulfate — a colorless crystalline compound, NaHSO 4 , soluble in water: used in dyeing, in the manufacture of cement, paper, soap, and an acid-type cleaner.
  • soft in the head — stupid or foolish
  • software library — a collection of programs that are used to develop software
  • south plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
  • speak for itself — be self-evident
  • specific gravity — the ratio of the density of any substance to the density of some other substance taken as standard, water being the standard for liquids and solids, and hydrogen or air being the standard for gases.
  • spreading factor — a substance, as hyaluronidase, that promotes the diffusion of a material through body tissues
  • staffing officer — someone who recruits, hires, and ensures the interests of staff and employees in an organization
  • standoff missile — a missile capable of striking a distant target after launch by an aircraft outside the range of missile defences
  • state of affairs — situation
  • stephen f austin — Alfred, 1835–1913, English poet: poet laureate 1896–1913.
  • stonecrop family — the plant family Crassulaceae, characterized by succulent herbaceous plants and shrubs with simple, fleshy leaves, clusters of small flowers, and dry, dehiscent fruit, and including hen-and-chickens, houseleek, kalanchoe, live-forever, orpine, sedum, and stonecrop.
  • studentification — the renting of particular accommodation exclusively to students
  • subjectification — to make subjective.
  • superfecundation — the fertilization of two or more ova discharged at the same ovulation by successive acts of sexual intercourse.
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