12-letter words containing f, l, s
- self-to-self — autologous.
- self-torment — an act or instance of tormenting oneself, as with worry or guilt.
- self-torture — the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
- self-treated — to act or behave toward (a person) in some specified way: to treat someone with respect.
- self-tuition — the charge or fee for instruction, as at a private school or a college or university: The college will raise its tuition again next year.
- self-winding — kept wound or wound periodically by a mechanism, as an electric motor or a system of weighted levers, so that winding by hand is not necessary.
- self-worship — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
- self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- selfie stick — a rod on which a camera or mobile phone may be mounted in order to take a photograph of oneself
- selflessness — having little or no concern for oneself, especially with regard to fame, position, money, etc.; unselfish.
- selfsameness — the quality or state of being selfsame or identical
- sell oneself — to convince someone else of one's potential or worth
- semifinalist — a participant or one qualified to participate in a semifinal.
- semiflexible — moderately or somewhat flexible.
- semifloating — noting or pertaining to a driving axle of an automobile or the like, the inner end of which is carried by the differential gear and the outer end of which is keyed to a wheel supported by the axle housing.
- semiofficial — having some degree of official authority.
- serous fluid — any of various clear, watery fluids in the body.
- service flat — an apartment with complete hotel services.
- service lift — a lift which carries heavy goods in a place of business, as for example, plates in a restaurant
- several-fold — comprising several parts or members.
- shamefacedly — modest or bashful.
- shelf fungus — bracket fungus
- shelf talker — a cardboard, paper, or plastic advertisement of a product designed to be attached to a shelf on which the product is exhibited for sale.
- shellfishery — the industry and commerce of catching, processing, and selling shellfish; raising shellfish for commercial purposes.
- shingle roof — a roof covered with thin rectangular tiles, esp made of wood, that are laid with others in overlapping rows
- shirt-lifter — a homosexual
- shoo-fly pie — an open pie filled with a sweet crumb and molasses mixture and baked.
- shuffle play — a facility on a compact disc player that randomly selects a track from one of a number of compact discs
- shuffleboard — a game in which standing players shove or push wooden or plastic disks with a long cue toward numbered scoring sections marked on a floor or deck.
- shuttlecraft — space shuttle.
- siliciferous — containing, combined with, or producing silica.
- silk factory — plant where silk fabric is produced
- silver frost — glaze (def 17).
- simian shelf — a shelflike thickening along the inside of the mandible, characteristic of the anthropoid apes.
- simple fruit — a fruit formed from one pistil.
- simplifiable — having the ability to be made less complicated, clearer, or easier
- sleep it off — to rid oneself of the effects of some excess, overindulgence, etc., specif. of the aftereffects of drinking much alcoholic liquor, by sleeping
- slipper foot — an elongated pad foot.
- sloop of war — (formerly) a sailing or steam naval vessel having cannons on only one deck.
- slothfulness — sluggardly; indolent; lazy.
- slumpflation — a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation
- small-format — A small-format store is one in which a large retail chain offers only part of their range in a smaller store.
- soboliferous — bearing or producing soboles
- soft landing — space vehicle
- soft release — a means of gradually accustoming wild animals to a new environment before releasing them into it
- soft-shelled — Also, soft-shelled. having a soft, flexible, or fragile shell, as a crab that has recently molted.
- softheadedly — in a soft-headed manner
- soil profile — a vertical succession of horizons, commonly lettered A, B, C (beginning at the surface), that have been subjected to soil-forming processes, chiefly leaching and oxidation.
- solid figure — a figure that has three dimensions
- solifluction — creep (def 22a).