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

  • 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
  • skill-fulness — having or exercising skill: a skillful juggler.
  • slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
  • slice of life — accurate depiction of reality
  • slice-of-life — of, relating to, or being a naturalistic, unembellished representation of real life: a play with slice-of-life dialogue.
  • special offer — bargain
  • special staff — all staff officers assigned to headquarters of a division or higher unit who are not members of the general staff or personal staff.
  • 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.
  • 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 of life — bread, considered as the mainstay of the human diet.
  • stanley knife — A Stanley knife is a very sharp knife that is used to cut materials such as carpet and paper. It consists of a small blade fixed in the end of a handle.
  • stoloniferous — producing or bearing stolons.
  • stress relief — Stress relief involves removing stresses in a material, usually by heating it to a temperature at which it can deform easily.
  • sulfadimidine — an antibacterial sulfa drug used in human and veterinary medicine. It is effective against chlamydia, toxoplasma, and cocidia
  • sulfamerazine — a sulfa drug, C11H12N4O2S, a methyl derivative of sulfadiazine that is more rapidly absorbed
  • sulfanilamide — a white, crystalline amide of sulfanilic acid, C 6 H 8 N 2 O 2 S, formerly used in the treatment of bacterial infections: replaced by its derivatives and by antibiotics.
  • sulfapyridine — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 1 1 H 1 1 N 3 O 2 S, formerly used for infections caused by pneumococci, now used primarily for a particular dermatitis.
  • sulfasalazine — a substance, C 1 8 H 1 4 N 4 O 5 S, used in the treatment of ulcerative colitis.
  • sulfathiazole — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 9 H 9 N 3 O 2 S 2 , formerly used in the treatment of pneumonia and staphylococcal infections, but now largely replaced because of its toxicity.
  • sulfisoxazole — a white to yellowish, crystalline, slightly bitter sulfonamide, C 1 1 H 1 3 N 3 O 3 S, used chiefly in the treatment of infections of the urinary tract.
  • sulfite paper — paper made from sulfite pulp.
  • sunflower oil — oil obtained from sunflower seeds
  • superficially — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • superfluidity — a fluid that exhibits frictionless flow, very high heat conductivity, and other unusual physical properties, helium below 2.186 K being the only known example.
  • 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.
  • teasel family — the plant family Dipsacaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having opposite or whorled leaves, dense flower heads surrounded by an involucre, and small, dry fruit, and including the scabious and teasel.
  • telefacsimile — facsimile (def 2).
  • telescopiform — having body parts which resemble a telescope in that the retract within one another
  • teofilo otoni — a city in E central Brazil.
  • tetrafluoride — a fluoride containing four fluorine atoms.
  • the afflicted — afflicted people considered collectively
  • the backfield — the quarterback and running backs in a team
  • the beautiful — the quality of beauty
  • the cup final — the annual final of the FA Cup soccer competition, played at Wembley, or the Scottish Cup, played at Hampden Park
  • 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.
  • think less of — to have a lower opinion of
  • transfer list — In football, a transfer list is a list of players at a club who may be sold to other clubs.
  • transfusively — in a transfusive manner
  • triple figure — a number made up of three digits.
  • twelfth night — the evening before Twelfth Day, formerly observed with various festivities.
  • ultra-leftism — the beliefs of extremely left-wing political parties or groups
  • ultra-leftist — a person with extremely left-wing political views
  • ultrafeminine — pertaining to a woman or girl: feminine beauty; feminine dress.
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