15-letter words containing f, i, l, g
- ridgefield park — a town in NE New Jersey.
- right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
- self-abnegation — self-denial or self-sacrifice.
- self-afflicting — to distress with mental or bodily pain; trouble greatly or grievously: to be afflicted with arthritis.
- self-committing — to give in trust or charge; consign.
- self-correcting — automatically adjusting to or correcting mistakes, malfunctions, etc.: a self-correcting mechanism.
- self-diagnostic — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
- self-energizing — giving rise to energy or power from within itself or oneself; capable of generating energy or power automatically.
- self-exploiting — to utilize, especially for profit; turn to practical account: to exploit a business opportunity.
- self-flattering — praise and exaggeration of one's own achievements coupled with a denial or glossing over of one's faults or failings; self-congratulation.
- self-forgetting — self-forgetful.
- self-fulfilling — characterized by or bringing about self-fulfillment.
- self-generating — producing from within itself.
- self-generation — production or reproduction of something without the aid of an external agent; spontaneous generation.
- self-glorifying — to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.
- self-immolating — of, relating to, or tending toward self-immolation.
- self-indulgence — indulging one's own desires, passions, whims, etc., especially without restraint.
- self-justifying — offering excuses for oneself, especially in excess of normal demands.
- self-lacerating — to tear roughly; mangle: The barbed wire lacerated his hands.
- self-monitoring — (especially formerly) a student appointed to assist in the conduct of a class or school, as to help take attendance or keep order.
- self-preserving — preservation of oneself from harm or destruction.
- self-rectifying — to make, put, or set right; remedy; correct: He sent them a check to rectify his account.
- self-regulating — adjusting, ruling, or governing itself without outside interference; operating or functioning without externally imposed controls or regulations: a self-regulating economy; the self-regulating market.
- self-regulation — control by oneself or itself, as in an economy, business organization, etc., especially such control as exercised independently of governmental supervision, laws, or the like.
- self-regulative — used for or capable of controlling or adjusting oneself or itself: a self-regulative device.
- self-renouncing — to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
- self-respecting — You can use self-respecting with a noun describing a particular type of person to indicate that something is typical of, or necessary for, that type of person.
- self-satisfying — effecting satisfaction to oneself.
- self-subsisting — to exist; continue in existence.
- self-suggestion — the act of suggesting.
- self-supporting — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
- self-sustaining — self-supporting.
- self-validating — requiring no external confirmation, sanction, or validation.
- sigmoid flexure — Zoology. an S -shaped curve in a body part.
- significatively — serving to signify.
- single-cut file — a file with teeth in one direction only: used for filing soft material
- skylight filter — a very slightly pink filter that absorbs ultraviolet light and reduces haze and excessive blueness
- sleight of hand — skill in feats requiring quick and clever movements of the hands, especially for entertainment or deception, as jugglery, card or coin magic, etc.; legerdemain.
- soft-boiled egg — boiled egg with runny yolk
- spelling reform — an attempt to change the spelling of English words to make it conform more closely to pronunciation.
- stocking filler — A stocking filler is a small present that is suitable for putting in a Christmas stocking.
- strike the flag — to relinquish command, esp of a ship
- sulfiting agent — sulfite (def 2).
- supporting film — a film that accompanies the main feature film in a film programme
- teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
- the magic flute — an opera (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- thing-in-itself — reality as it is apart from experience; what remains to be postulated after space, time, and all the categories of the understanding are assigned to consciousness. Compare noumenon (def 3).
- traffic calming — Traffic calming consists of measures designed to make roads safer, for example making them narrower or placing obstacles in them, so that drivers are forced to slow down.
- ultracentrifuge — a high-speed centrifuge for subjecting sols or solutions to forces many times that of gravity and producing concentration differences depending on the weight of the micelle or molecule.
- underfulfilling — falling short of satisfactory