16-letter words containing f, e, n, s, t
- self-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
- self-registering — registering automatically, as an instrument; self-recording.
- self-replicating — reproducing itself by its own power or inherent nature: self-replicating organisms.
- self-restriction — something that restricts; a restrictive condition or regulation; limitation.
- self-sovereignty — the quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority.
- 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-subsistence — the state or fact of subsisting.
- 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.
- serpentine front — a front, as of a chest of drawers, having a horizontal compound curve with a convex section between two concave ones.
- shifting spanner — an adjustable spanner
- ship of the line — a former sailing warship armed powerfully enough to serve in the line of battle, usually having cannons ranged along two or more decks; battleship.
- sickness benefit — Sickness benefit is money that you receive regularly from the government when you are unable to work because of illness.
- sit on the fence — to be unable or unwilling to commit oneself
- 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
- soft in the head — stupid or foolish
- something fierce — desperately, intensely
- south plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
- split infinitive — an expression in which there is a word or phrase, especially an adverb or adverbial phrase, between to and its accompanying verb form in an infinitive, as in to readily understand.
- 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
- step out of line — to fail to conform to expected standards, attitudes, etc
- stephen f austin — Alfred, 1835–1913, English poet: poet laureate 1896–1913.
- stocking stuffer — a small, usually inexpensive gift that is placed with others in a Christmas stocking.
- 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.
- street furniture — pieces of equipment, such as streetlights and pillar boxes, placed in the street for the benefit of the public
- 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.
- superunification — a theory intended to describe the electromagnetic force, the strong force, the weak force, and gravity as a single, unified force.
- surface integral — the limit, as the norm of the partition of a given surface into sections of area approaches zero, of the sum of the product of the areas times the value of a given function of three variables at some point on each section.
- surface-printing — planography.
- sutherland falls — a waterfall in New Zealand, on SW South Island. 1904 feet (580 meters) high.
- sutton coldfield — a town in central England, in Birmingham unitary authority, West Midlands; a residential suburb of Birmingham. Pop: 105 452 (2001)
- tablets of stone — Stone is used in expressions such as set in stone and tablets of stone to suggest that an idea or rule is firm and fixed, and cannot be changed.
- tequendama falls — a waterfall in central Colombia, on the Bogota River, SW of Bogota. 515 feet (157 meters) high.
- terms of payment — The terms of payment of a sale state how and when an invoice is to be paid.
- the fact remains — You say the fact remains that something is the case when you want to emphasize that the situation must be accepted.
- the silver ferns — the women's international netball team of New Zealand
- the swiss-french — people from French-speaking Switzerland
- theatre-francais — Comédie Française.
- thomas jefferson — Joseph, 1829–1905, U.S. actor.
- throw oneself at — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
- throw oneself on — to rely entirely upon