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14-letter words containing f, i, r, s, t, n

  • self-operating — automatic.
  • self-promotion — advancement in rank or position.
  • self-restoring — to bring back into existence, use, or the like; reestablish: to restore order.
  • self-restraint — restraint imposed on one by oneself; self-control.
  • sensitive fern — a common, widely distributed fern, Onoclea sensibilis, having large, triangular leaves and beadlike spikes that contain the spores.
  • shark-infested — (of a body of water) known to contain large numbers of sharks, and therefore considered to be dangerous
  • shortleaf pine — a pine, Pinus echinata, of the southern U.S., having short, flexible leaves.
  • slide fastener — zipper (def 2).
  • soft margarine — a soft, spreadable margarine that is made with more liquid oils and less hydrogenated oils than hard, block margarine
  • sorting office — postal
  • southern-fried — coated with flour, egg, and bread crumbs and fried in deep fat: Southern-fried chicken.
  • sportfisherman — a motorboat fitted out for sportfishing.
  • sprightfulness — the condition or quality of being sprightful
  • staff training — training to improve the performance or knowledge of the employees or workforce or a company, etc
  • staffing ratio — the ratio of the staff or workforce of a place to another group, for example to staff in another department, the ratio of patients to nurses in a hospital, or the ratio of pupils to teachers in a school
  • stagflationary — of, caused by, or relating to, stagflation
  • sticky fingers — an inclination or tendency to steal or pilfer
  • stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
  • stop-and-frisk — a policy that permits a police officer to momentarily detain and pat down or search a person suspected of criminal activity, especially when suspected of concealing a weapon.
  • stratification — the act or an instance of stratifying.
  • strike benefit — money paid to strikers by a union to enable them to subsist during a strike.
  • subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
  • superconfident — very or extremely confident, overly confident
  • superefficient — extremely efficient
  • superfecundity — the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
  • superinfection — marked proliferation of a parasitic microorganism during antimicrobial treatment for another infection.
  • superinflation — hyperinflation.
  • the kiwi ferns — the women's international Rugby League football team of New Zealand
  • thetford mines — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: asbestos mining.
  • traffic island — a raised or marked-off area between lanes of a roadway, used by pedestrians to get out of the flow of traffic, as a place for traffic signals, for separating lanes, etc.
  • transfer orbit — the flight path of a space vehicle moving from a nearly circular orbit to one with different parameters.
  • transferential — of, relating to, or involving transference.
  • transformation — the act or process of transforming.
  • transformative — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
  • transformistic — of or relating to transformism or transformists
  • transfusionist — a medical professional who transfuses blood into someone
  • transrectifier — a device, usually a vacuum tube, that provides transrectification.
  • trustification — the practice or process of forming a monopolistic system or trusts: the trustification of the oil business.
  • unrightfulness — the quality of being unjust or unrightful
  • unsatisfactory — not satisfactory; not satisfying or meeting one's demands; inadequate.
  • user interface — the interface features through which users interact with the hardware and software of computers and other electronic devices. Abbreviation: UI.
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