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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).
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