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18-letter words containing f, i, t, e, s

  • self-glorification — a glorified or more splendid form of something.
  • self-gratification — the act of pleasing or satisfying oneself, especially the gratifying of one's own impulses, needs, or desires.
  • self-incriminating — serving to incriminate oneself or to expose oneself to prosecution: self-incriminating testimony.
  • self-incrimination — the act of incriminating oneself or exposing oneself to prosecution, especially by giving evidence or testimony.
  • self-instructional — pertaining to or constituting learning materials and conditions arranged so that students can proceed to learn on their own with little or no supervision.
  • self-interrogation — the act of interrogating; questioning.
  • self-justification — the act or fact of justifying oneself, especially of offering excessive reasons, explanations, excuses, etc., for an act, thought, or the like.
  • self-manifestation — an act of manifesting.
  • self-mortification — the inflicting of pain or privation on oneself: He was certain that self-mortification was the only road to salvation.
  • self-preoccupation — the state of being preoccupied.
  • self-recrimination — the act of recriminating, or countercharging: Hope gave way to recrimination with both sides claiming the moral high ground.
  • self-tapping screw — a screw designed to tap its corresponding female thread as it is driven.
  • self-understanding — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
  • senior aircraftman — a rank in the Royal Air Force comparable to that of a private in the army, though not the lowest rank in the Royal Air Force
  • sense of direction — Your sense of direction is your ability to know roughly where you are, or which way to go, even when you are in an unfamiliar place.
  • shift one's ground — to change one's argument or defense
  • shoot from the hip — the act of shooting with a bow, firearm, etc.
  • sign of the zodiac — one of the twelve constellations along the path of the ecliptic.
  • sildenafil citrate — a white crystalline powder, C 22 H 30 N 6 O 4 S, that temporarily normalizes erectile function of the penis by blocking an enzyme known to inhibit the production of a chemical that causes erections: used in the form of a pill to treat impotence.
  • silver certificate — a former paper currency first issued in 1878 by the U.S. federal government for circulation, equal to and redeemable for silver to a stated value.
  • sit at the feet of — to be an admiring disciple of
  • six-finger country — an isolated area considered as being inhabited by people who practise inbreeding
  • sixth-form college — (in England and Wales) a college offering A-level and other courses to pupils over sixteen from local schools, esp from those that do not have sixth forms
  • slip of the tongue — If you describe something you said as a slip of the tongue, you mean that you said it by mistake.
  • smooth fox terrier — a breed of short-haired fox terrier with a mostly white, smooth coat.
  • society of friends — a Christian denomination, founded in England c. 1650 by George Fox, that has no formal creed, liturgy, or priesthood and rejects violence in human relations, esp. warfare
  • sodium hyposulfite — sodium thiosulfate.
  • sodium thiosulfate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, Na 2 S 2 O 3 ⋅5H 2 O, used as a bleach and in photography as a fixing agent.
  • soft touch sealing — Soft touch sealing is a copolymer seal for a tank, with characteristics designed for softness, used instead of a metal seal to help avoid fire when sparks are generated.
  • soldier of fortune — a person who independently seeks pleasure, wealth, etc., through adventurous exploits.
  • solid-fuel heating — heating that uses solid fuel, such as coal or coke
  • sonic depth finder — a sonar instrument that uses echolocation to measure depths under water.
  • specific viscosity — a measure of the resistance to flow of a fluid, expressed as the ratio of the absolute viscosity of the fluid to that of a reference fluid (usually water in the case of liquids)
  • spectrofluorimeter — an instrument in which the spectrum of secondarily emitted fluorescent light is used to identify chemical compounds.
  • squinting modifier — a word or phrase that can modify either the words that precede it or those that follow, as frequently in the sentence Studying frequently is tedious.
  • state of the union — A State of the Union speech or address is a speech, given once a year, in which the president of the United States talks about the current political issues that affect the country as a whole and about his plans for the year ahead.
  • statement of claim — law: first pleading
  • stepping-off place — jumping-off place (def 2).
  • stinking goosefoot — a European goosefoot with foul-smelling leaves
  • strait of magellan — a strait between the mainland of S South America and Tierra del Fuego, linking the S Pacific with the S Atlantic. Length: 600 km (370 miles). Width: up to 32 km (20 miles)
  • street certificate — a certificate showing ownership of a specified number of shares of stock: endorsed by the owner and guaranteed by a broker, it may be traded without formal transfer on the books of the corporation issuing the stock.
  • subsistence farmer — a farmer who consumes most of the produce he grows, leaving little or nothing to be marketed
  • sutton-in-ashfield — a market town in N central England, in W Nottinghamshire. Pop: 41 951 (2001)
  • sweptwing aircraft — an aircraft which has wings that are swept (usually) backwards
  • symmetric function — a polynomial in several indeterminates that stays the same under any permutation of the indeterminates.
  • tale of two cities — a historical novel (1859) by Dickens.
  • the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
  • the final solution — the code name used by the Nazis to refer to the plan of mass murder of the Jews
  • the first sea lord — the senior of the two serving naval officers who sits on the admiralty board of the Ministry of Defence
  • thorfinn karlsefni — 980–after 1007, Icelandic navigator, explorer, and leader of early colonizing expedition to Vinland, in North America.
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