14-letter words containing i, n, f, a
- refractoriness — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
- refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
- refund annuity — an annuity providing for a lump-sum payment or installment payments to the beneficiary for the amount remaining of the purchase price at the death of the annuitant.
- regasification — Regasification is the process of returning LNG to its gaseous state.
- relexification — to replace the vocabulary of (a language, especially a pidgin) with words drawn from another language, without changing the grammatical structure.
- resinification — to convert into a resin.
- revenue tariff — a tariff or duty imposed on imports primarily to produce public revenue.
- reverification — the act of verifying.
- revivification — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
- right and left — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- rigidification — the state or process of stiffening or rigidifying
- rock formation — rock that is arranged or formed in a certain way
- route flapping — flapping router
- runoff primary — (especially in the southern U.S.) a second primary between the two leading candidates of the first primary to provide nomination by majority rather than by plurality.
- sacrifice bunt — a bunt made by the batter so that a base runner is advanced while the batter is put out
- safety curtain — a sheet of asbestos or other fireproof material that can be lowered just inside the proscenium arch in case of fire, sealing off the backstage area from the auditorium.
- safety islands — a group of three small French islands in the Atlantic, off the coast of French Guiana
- saint boniface — Saint, pope a.d. 608–615.
- saint francois — a river in S Quebec, Canada, flowing generally W to the St. Lawrence River. 165 miles (266 km) long.
- salmon fishing — the sport of angling for salmon
- san franciscan — a seaport in W California, on San Francisco Bay: earthquake and fire 1906; United Nations Conference 1945.
- sanctification — to make holy; set apart as sacred; consecrate.
- sanguification — hematopoiesis.
- santa fe trail — an important trade route going between Independence, Missouri, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, used from about 1821 to 1880.
- saponification — to convert (a fat) into soap by treating with an alkali.
- satisfactional — an act of satisfying; fulfillment; gratification.
- schiff reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
- scientifically — of or relating to science or the sciences: scientific studies.
- scsi interface — SCSI adaptor
- sean o'faolain — Seán [shawn] /ʃɔn/ (Show IPA), 1900–91, Irish writer and teacher.
- self-actuating — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
- self-adjusting — that adjusts itself in response to circumstances
- self-adulation — excessive devotion to someone; servile flattery.
- self-annealing — denoting certain metals, such as lead, tin, and zinc, that recrystallize at air temperatures and so may be cold-worked without strain-hardening
- self-appointed — chosen by oneself to act in a certain capacity or to fulfill a certain function, especially pompously or self-righteously: a self-appointed guardian of the public's morals.
- self-assertion — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
- self-contained — containing in oneself or itself all that is necessary; independent.
- self-defeating — serving to frustrate, thwart, etc., one's own intention or interests: His behavior was certainly self-defeating.
- self-diagnosis — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
- self-dominance — rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
- self-expanding — to increase in extent, size, volume, scope, etc.: Heat expands most metals. He hopes to expand his company.
- self-financing — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
- self-formation — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
- self-hardening — noting or pertaining to any of various steels that harden after heating without quenching or other treatment.
- self-impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
- self-important — having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompously conceited or haughty.
- self-initiated — initiated or begun by oneself.
- self-insurance — insurance of one's property or interests against possible loss by the establishing of a special fund for the purpose instead of seeking coverage with an underwriter.
- self-laudation — an act or instance of lauding; encomium; tribute.
- self-mediating — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.