16-letter words containing f, i, n, l, t
- self-examination — examination into one's own state, conduct, motives, etc.
- self-explication — the act of explicating.
- self-fulfillment — the act or fact of fulfilling one's ambitions, desires, etc., through one's own efforts.
- self-humiliation — an act or instance of humiliating or being humiliated.
- self-improvement — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
- self-indignation — strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base; righteous anger.
- self-integrating — to bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole.
- self-integration — an act or instance of combining into an integral whole.
- self-liquidating — capable of being sold and converted into cash within a short period of time or before the date on which the supplier must be paid.
- 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.
- 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.
- slap in the face — smack on the cheek
- sliding friction — frictional resistance to relative movement of surfaces on loaded contact
- 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
- south plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
- 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.
- standoff missile — a missile capable of striking a distant target after launch by an aircraft outside the range of missile defences
- step out of line — to fail to conform to expected standards, attitudes, etc
- stonecrop family — the plant family Crassulaceae, characterized by succulent herbaceous plants and shrubs with simple, fleshy leaves, clusters of small flowers, and dry, dehiscent fruit, and including hen-and-chickens, houseleek, kalanchoe, live-forever, orpine, sedum, and stonecrop.
- surface integral — the limit, as the norm of the partition of a given surface into sections of area approaches zero, of the sum of the product of the areas times the value of a given function of three variables at some point on each section.
- sutton coldfield — a town in central England, in Birmingham unitary authority, West Midlands; a residential suburb of Birmingham. Pop: 105 452 (2001)
- teleconferencing — a business meeting, educational session, etc., conducted among participants in different locations via telecommunications equipment. Compare videoconference.
- the arabian gulf — the arm of the Arabian Sea between SW Iran and Arabia; important for the oilfields on its shores
- the silver ferns — the women's international netball team of New Zealand
- to lift a finger — If you say that a person does not lift a finger or raise a finger to do something, especially to help someone, you are critical of them because they do nothing.
- tower of silence — a circular stone platform, typically 30 feet (9.1 meter) in height, on which the Parsees of India leave their dead to be devoured by vultures.