14-letter words containing f, e, r, o, s, i
- reformationist — someone who was part of the Reformation
- refractoriness — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
- regasification — Regasification is the process of returning LNG to its gaseous state.
- reinforcements — the act of reinforcing.
- resinification — to convert into a resin.
- restiform body — a cordlike bundle of nerve fibers lying on each side of the medulla oblongata and connecting it with the cerebellum.
- rite of spring — French Le Sacre du Printemps. a ballet suite (1913) for orchestra by Igor Stravinsky.
- ross ice shelf — an ice barrier filling the S part of the Ross Sea.
- sacchariferous — containing or yielding sugar.
- safety officer — The safety officer in a company or an organization is the person who is responsible for the safety of the people who work or visit there.
- saxifragaceous — belonging to the plant family Saxifragaceae.
- self-assertion — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
- self-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
- self-discovery — process of understanding oneself
- self-enforcing — of or having the capability of enforcement within oneself or itself; self-regulating.
- self-formation — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
- self-glorified — to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.
- self-governing — governed by itself or having self-government, as a state or community; independent.
- self-important — having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompously conceited or haughty.
- self-operating — automatic.
- self-operative — automatic.
- self-ownership — the state or fact of being an owner.
- self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
- self-promotion — advancement in rank or position.
- self-provision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- self-reckoning — count; computation; calculation.
- self-recording — recording automatically, as an instrument.
- self-restoring — to bring back into existence, use, or the like; reestablish: to restore order.
- self-righteous — confident of one's own righteousness, especially when smugly moralistic and intolerant of the opinions and behavior of others.
- share of voice — the proportion of the total audience or readership commanded by a media group across its full range of publishing and broadcasting activities
- shortleaf pine — a pine, Pinus echinata, of the southern U.S., having short, flexible leaves.
- sigh of relief — audible breath when difficulty is over
- social welfare — social services provided by a government for its citizens.
- soft ice-cream — a softer and lighter-textured ice cream that contains more air than standard ice-cream. It was developed in Britain in the 20th century.
- soft margarine — a soft, spreadable margarine that is made with more liquid oils and less hydrogenated oils than hard, block margarine
- sorting office — postal
- southern-fried — coated with flour, egg, and bread crumbs and fried in deep fat: Southern-fried chicken.
- special forces — crack military team
- sportfisherman — a motorboat fitted out for sportfishing.
- stereospecific — (of a reaction) producing a simple stereoisomer.
- stigmatiferous — (of a plant) having a stigma
- stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
- subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
- sulfinpyrazone — a substance, C 2 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 3 S, used in the treatment of chronic gout.
- sulfur dioxide — a colorless, nonflammable, water-soluble, suffocating gas, SO 2 , formed when sulfur burns: used chiefly in the manufacture of chemicals such as sulfuric acid, in preserving fruits and vegetables, and in bleaching, disinfecting, and fumigating.
- superconfident — very or extremely confident, overly confident
- superinfection — marked proliferation of a parasitic microorganism during antimicrobial treatment for another infection.
- superinflation — hyperinflation.
- surface-to-air — (of a missile, message, etc.) capable of traveling from the surface of the earth to a target in the atmosphere.
- thetford mines — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: asbestos mining.