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13-letter words containing f, i, n, s

  • significantly — important; of consequence.
  • signification — meaning; import; sense.
  • significative — serving to signify.
  • significatory — serving to signify
  • 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.
  • skin friction — the friction acting on a solid body when it is moving through a fluid
  • skin grafting — the transplanting of healthy skin from the patient's or another's body to a wound or burn, to form new skin.
  • slash fiction — a type or piece of fan fiction involving usually same-sex romantic relationships between fictional characters or famous people, whether or not the romances actually exist: Sherlock Holmes/Dr. Watson slash fiction. Also called slash.
  • snuff-dipping — the practice of absorbing nicotine by holding in one's mouth, between the cheek and the gum, a small amount of tobacco, either loose or enclosed in a sachet
  • soda fountain — a counter, as in a restaurant or drugstore, at which sodas, ice cream, light meals, etc., are served.
  • soixante-neuf — sixty-nine (def 4).
  • solifidianism — a person who maintains that faith alone, without the performance of good works, is all that is necessary for salvation.
  • soundproofing — materials used to make something soundproof
  • soup-and-fish — a man's formal evening clothes.
  • soupfin shark — a requiem shark, Galeorhinus zyopterus, inhabiting the Pacific Ocean, valued for its fins, which are used by the Chinese in the preparation of a soup, and for its liver, which is rich in vitamin A.
  • south african — of southern Africa.
  • southern fish — the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
  • space fiction — a book, film, TV series, etc, set in outer space
  • specific name — the second part in the name of a species, such as norvegicus in Rattus norvegicus
  • specification — the act of specifying.
  • speeding fine — a fine for breaking the speed limit while driving a vehicle
  • spinuliferous — relating to a spine or spines
  • spiny dogfish — any of several dogfish sharks of the genus Squalus, having a spine in front of each of the two dorsal fins, especially S. acanthias, inhabiting Atlantic coastal waters.
  • splendiferous — splendid; magnificent; fine.
  • sponge finger — sweet finger-shaped biscuit
  • sprint finish — the end of a long race in which competitors speed up as they approach the finish line
  • staff captain — a person who assists the master of a large ocean passenger vessel, being especially responsible for safety apparatus, fire and lifeboat drills, etc.
  • staff meeting — company gathering of employees
  • staff section — section (def 10b).
  • staminiferous — bearing or having a stamen or stamens.
  • 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.
  • state of mind — mental condition, mood
  • step function — a function that is constant on each of a finite set of subintervals of its domain, the union of the subintervals being the domain.
  • stoloniferous — producing or bearing stolons.
  • stultifyingly — to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous.
  • sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • subjectifying — to make subjective.
  • suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
  • 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.
  • sulfonic acid — any of a large group of organic compounds of the structure RSO 2 OH, which are strong acids that give neutral sodium salts: used in the synthesis of phenols, dyes, and other substances.
  • sulfur spring — a spring the water of which contains naturally occurring sulfur compounds.
  • sunflower oil — oil obtained from sunflower seeds
  • superfetation — the fertilization of an ovum in a female mammal already pregnant.
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