12-letter words containing f, e, s, d
- scalar field — a region with a number assigned at each point.
- scared stiff — terrified
- sea defences — walls, breakwaters and other measures designed to prevent coastal erosion
- second floor — the floor or story above the ground floor.
- sedge family — the plant family Cyperaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, often found in wet areas, having solid stems, narrow, grasslike leaves with closed sheaths, spikes of very small flowers set in a scalelike bract, and a dry, flattened, convex fruit, and including the bulrush, chufa, cotton grass, papyrus, and umbrella plant.
- self-assured — self-confident.
- self-blinded — unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless: a blind man.
- self-centred — concerned solely or chiefly with one's own interests, welfare, etc.; engrossed in self; selfish; egotistical.
- self-colored — of one color.
- self-command — self-control.
- self-created — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
- self-damning — causing incrimination: damning evidence.
- self-dealing — financial transaction conducted on a personal, nonbusinesslike basis, as lending or borrowing of corporate money by a director.
- self-defence — the act of defending one's person when physically attacked, as by countering blows or overcoming an assailant: the art of self-defense.
- self-defense — the act of defending one's person when physically attacked, as by countering blows or overcoming an assailant: the art of self-defense.
- self-defined — to state or set forth the meaning of (a word, phrase, etc.): They disagreed on how to define “liberal.”.
- self-deluded — the act or fact of deluding oneself.
- self-denying — the sacrifice of one's own desires; unselfishness.
- self-devised — to contrive, plan, or elaborate; invent from existing principles or ideas: to devise a method.
- self-devoted — intense devotion of oneself to an activity or to a field or profession, as art or science.
- self-disdain — to look upon or treat with contempt; despise; scorn.
- self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
- self-driving — (of a machine) operating without the guidance of a human.
- self-elected — chosen by vote, as for an office (contrasted with appointed): an elected official.
- self-evident — evident in itself without proof or demonstration; axiomatic.
- self-evolved — to develop gradually: to evolve a scheme.
- self-excited — noting a generator with magnets that are excited by the current it produces.
- self-feeding — automatically supplying itself with what is needed, as a machine
- self-focused — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- self-honored — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
- self-imposed — imposed on one by oneself: a self-imposed task.
- self-induced — induced by oneself or itself.
- self-limited — (of a disease) running a definite and limited course.
- self-loading — noting or pertaining to an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- self-powered — (of a machine, vehicle, etc.) having a specified fuel or prime mover: a gasoline-powered engine; an engine-powered pump.
- self-reading — the action or practice of a person who reads.
- self-starved — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
- self-studies — the study of something by oneself, as through books, records, etc., without direct supervision or attendance in a class: She learned to read German by self-study.
- self-treated — to act or behave toward (a person) in some specified way: to treat someone with respect.
- self-winding — kept wound or wound periodically by a mechanism, as an electric motor or a system of weighted levers, so that winding by hand is not necessary.
- semifinished — partially or almost finished.
- send out for — If you send out for food, for example pizzas or sandwiches, you phone and ask for it to be delivered to you.
- serous fluid — any of various clear, watery fluids in the body.
- several-fold — comprising several parts or members.
- sex offender — a person who has been found guilty of one or more sex crimes.
- shamefacedly — modest or bashful.
- sheet feeder — a device that feeds paper into a printer one sheet at a time.
- shuffleboard — a game in which standing players shove or push wooden or plastic disks with a long cue toward numbered scoring sections marked on a floor or deck.
- smooth-faced — beardless; smooth-shaven.
- snake feeder — a dragonfly.