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13-letter words containing f, g, l

  • self-effacing — the act or fact of keeping oneself in the background, as in humility.
  • self-emptying — containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle.
  • self-evolving — to develop gradually: to evolve a scheme.
  • self-exposing — to lay open to danger, attack, harm, etc.: to expose soldiers to gunfire; to expose one's character to attack.
  • self-governed — governed by itself or having self-government, as a state or community; independent.
  • self-ignition — the spontaneous combustion or ignition of something without any external spark or flame
  • self-ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
  • self-judgment — the act or fact of judging oneself.
  • self-limiting — limiting oneself or itself: a self-limiting authority.
  • self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
  • self-managing — to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
  • self-negating — to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: an investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
  • self-pleasing — giving pleasure; agreeable; gratifying: a pleasing performance.
  • self-policing — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
  • self-renewing — of or relating to the act of renewing oneself or itself
  • self-resigned — submissive or acquiescent.
  • self-righting — able to or designed to right itself or oneself after falling or capsizing.
  • self-soothing — that soothes: a soothing voice.
  • self-standing — An object or structure that is self-standing is not supported by other objects or structures.
  • self-starting — starter (def 3).
  • self-steering — maintaining a course without constant human action
  • self-strength — the quality or state of being strong; bodily or muscular power; vigor.
  • self-thinning — having relatively little extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thick: thin ice.
  • 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).
  • show the flag — to assert a claim, as to a territory or stretch of water, by military presence
  • significantly — important; of consequence.
  • single father — a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • single-family — designed or suitable for one family of average size: single-family homes.
  • single-figure — relating to numbers below ten
  • 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 college — a training centre for executive military personnel
  • stultifyingly — to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous.
  • suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
  • sugar of lead — lead acetate.
  • sugar of milk — lactose.
  • sulfur spring — a spring the water of which contains naturally occurring sulfur compounds.
  • swift-flowing — moving rapidly
  • tale of genji — a novel (1001–20?) by Lady Murasaki, dealing with Japanese court life.
  • talking chief — a noble who serves as public spokesperson for the chief in some Polynesian tribes.
  • the following — the one or ones to be mentioned immediately
  • the good life — If you say that someone is living the good life, you mean that they are living in comfort and luxury with few problems or worries.
  • tiffany glass — Favrile Glass.
  • trading floor — stock exchange: room where trading is done
  • traffic light — a set of electrically operated signal lights used to direct or control traffic at intersections.
  • triple figure — a number made up of three digits.
  • twelfth grade — (in the US) the final year of secondary school after which students usually graduate at age 17 or 18
  • twelfth night — the evening before Twelfth Day, formerly observed with various festivities.
  • uncamouflaged — the act, means, or result of obscuring things to deceive an enemy, as by painting or screening objects so that they are lost to view in the background, or by making up objects that from a distance have the appearance of fortifications, guns, roads, etc.: Was camouflage used extensively on fighter aircraft during World War I?
  • unconflicting — being in conflict or disagreement; not compatible: conflicting viewpoints.
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