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16-letter words containing f, e, t, i

  • self-lubricating — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
  • self-lubrication — the process of becoming lubricated without external factors
  • self-maintenance — the act of maintaining: the maintenance of proper oral hygiene.
  • self-nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
  • self-observation — an act or instance of noticing or perceiving.
  • self-opinionated — conceited; having an inordinately high regard for oneself, one's own opinions, views, etc.
  • self-pollination — the transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of the same flower, another flower on the same plant, or the flower of a plant of the same clone.
  • self-preparation — a proceeding, measure, or provision by which one prepares for something: preparations for a journey.
  • self-propagating — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
  • self-questioning — review or scrutiny of one's own motives or behavior.
  • self-realization — the fulfillment of one's potential.
  • self-referential — If you describe something such as a book or film as self-referential, you mean that it is concerned with things such as its own composition or with other similar books or films.
  • 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.
  • silky flycatcher — any of several passerine birds of the family Ptilogonatidae, of the southwestern U.S. to Panama, related to the waxwings.
  • 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
  • society of jesus — a member of a Roman Catholic religious order (Society of Jesus) founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1534.
  • sodium bisulfate — a colorless crystalline compound, NaHSO 4 , soluble in water: used in dyeing, in the manufacture of cement, paper, soap, and an acid-type cleaner.
  • sodium bisulfite — Sodium bisulfite is a crystalline compound used as an antioxidant and stabilizing agent.
  • soft commodities — nonmetal commodities such as cocoa, sugar, and grains, bought and sold on a futures market
  • soft in the head — stupid or foolish
  • software library — a collection of programs that are used to develop software
  • something fierce — desperately, intensely
  • south plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
  • speak for itself — be self-evident
  • specific gravity — the ratio of the density of any substance to the density of some other substance taken as standard, water being the standard for liquids and solids, and hydrogen or air being the standard for gases.
  • 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
  • state of affairs — situation
  • step out of line — to fail to conform to expected standards, attitudes, etc
  • stephen f austinAlfred, 1835–1913, English poet: poet laureate 1896–1913.
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