14-letter words containing f, e, d, s, t, o
- mouths to feed — family members, dependents
- non-stratified — to form or place in strata or layers.
- opposite field — the opposite part of the outfield in relation to the batter, as left field for a right-handed batter.
- overfastidious — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- potter's field — a piece of ground reserved as a burial place for strangers and the friendless poor. Matt. 27:7.
- restiform body — a cordlike bundle of nerve fibers lying on each side of the medulla oblongata and connecting it with the cerebellum.
- safety-deposit — safe-deposit.
- schafer method — a method of artificial respiration in which the patient is placed face downward, pressure then being rhythmically applied with the hands to the lower part of the thorax.
- 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-collected — having or showing self-control; composed; self-possessed.
- self-conceited — an excessively favorable opinion of oneself, one's abilities, etc.; vanity.
- self-confident — realistic confidence in one's own judgment, ability, power, etc.
- self-contained — containing in oneself or itself all that is necessary; independent.
- self-contented — contented with what one is or has
- self-deception — the act or fact of deceiving oneself.
- self-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
- self-exploited — to utilize, especially for profit; turn to practical account: to exploit a business opportunity.
- self-induction — the process by which an electromotive force is induced in a circuit by a varying current in that circuit.
- self-laudation — an act or instance of lauding; encomium; tribute.
- self-laudatory — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.
- self-motivated — initiative to undertake or continue a task or activity without another's prodding or supervision.
- shortened form — an abbreviated form of a multisyllable word; clipped form.
- skeleton draft — a basic or minimum draft or outline
- sodium sulfate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na 2 SO 4 , used chiefly in the manufacture of dyes, soaps, detergents, glass, and ceramic glazes.
- sodium sulfite — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na 2 SO 3 , used chiefly as a food preservative, as a bleaching agent, and as a developer in photography.
- southern-fried — coated with flour, egg, and bread crumbs and fried in deep fat: Southern-fried chicken.
- spadefoot toad — any of several nocturnal toads of the family Pelobatidae, common in the Northern Hemisphere, characterized by a horny, spadelike projection on each hind foot for burrowing under the soil.
- stockade fence — a fence of closely fitted vertical boards with pointed tops.
- subinfeudation — the granting of a portion of an estate by a feudal tenant to a subtenant, held from the tenant on terms similar to those of the grant to the tenant.
- subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
- sulfantimonide — any compound containing an antimonide and a sulfide.
- superconfident — very or extremely confident, overly confident
- sweet woodruff — any of several plants belonging to the genus Asperula or Galium, of the madder family, as G. odoratum (sweet woodruff) a fragrant plant with small white flowers.
- terms of trade — the ratio of export prices to import prices. It measures a nation's trading position, which improves when export prices rise faster or fall slower than import prices
- the oslo fjord — a bay in the southeast of Norway (an inlet of the Skagerrak)
- thetford mines — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: asbestos mining.
- to mend fences — If one country tries to mend fences with another, it tries to end a disagreement or quarrel with the other country. You can also say that two countries mend fences.