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13-letter words containing f, e, r, i

  • scarfed joint — a lapped joint between two pieces of timber made by notching or grooving the ends and strapping, bolting, or gluing the two pieces together
  • scene shifter — a person who changes scenes during a play
  • school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
  • school friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
  • seafaring man — a sailor
  • security firm — a firm which provides guards for buildings, and other security services and personnel
  • self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
  • self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
  • self-critical — capable of criticizing oneself objectively.
  • self-directed — guided, regulated, or managed: a carefully directed program.
  • self-distrust — lack of confidence in oneself, in one's abilities, etc.
  • self-ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
  • self-improver — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
  • self-incurred — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
  • self-interest — regard for one's own interest or advantage, especially with disregard for others.
  • self-ordained — to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon.
  • self-oriented — the Orient, the countries of Asia, especially East Asia. (formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
  • self-portrait — a portrait of oneself done by oneself.
  • self-reliance — reliance on oneself or one's own powers, resources, etc.
  • self-renewing — of or relating to the act of renewing oneself or itself
  • self-resigned — submissive or acquiescent.
  • self-ridicule — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
  • self-righting — able to or designed to right itself or oneself after falling or capsizing.
  • self-security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
  • self-starting — starter (def 3).
  • self-steering — maintaining a course without constant human action
  • self-training — the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained: He's in training for the Olympics.
  • selling floor — floor (def 10).
  • semifurnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
  • sergeant fish — cobia
  • service rifle — a rifle that is issued as standard to soldiers of an army or armed force
  • seventy-first — next after the seventieth; being the ordinal number for 71.
  • shape-shifter — a creature or thing that can change shape at will or that does so under certain conditions
  • sheep farming — agriculture: sheep raising
  • sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
  • siege warfare — the use of offensive operations carried out to capture a fortified place by surrounding it, severing its communications and supply lines, and deploying weapons against it
  • sigmund freud — Anna, 1895–1982, British psychoanalyst, born in Austria (daughter of Sigmund Freud).
  • silver surfer — elderly internet user
  • single father — a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • single-figure — relating to numbers below ten
  • slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
  • southern fish — the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
  • special offer — bargain
  • spider flower — cleome
  • spinuliferous — relating to a spine or spines
  • splatter film — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
  • splendiferous — splendid; magnificent; fine.
  • sponge finger — sweet finger-shaped biscuit
  • spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
  • staff officer — a commissioned officer who is a member of a staff.
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