14-letter words containing i, n, f, e, s, t
- 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.
- self-selection — selection made by or for oneself: goods arranged on shelves for customer self-selection.
- self-valuation — an estimated value or worth.
- semantic field — an area of human experience or perception, as color, that is delimited and subcategorized by a set of interrelated vocabulary items in a language.
- 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).
- snifting valve — a valve for releasing small quantities of steam, compressed air, or condensate, as from the cylinder of a steam engine.
- 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
- state function — a thermodynamic quantity that has definite values for given states of a system, such as entropy, enthalpy, free energy, etc
- sticky fingers — an inclination or tendency to steal or pilfer
- stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
- strike benefit — money paid to strikers by a union to enable them to subsist during a strike.
- stuffed animal — soft toy
- subinfeudation — the granting of a portion of an estate by a feudal tenant to a subtenant, held from the tenant on terms similar to those of the grant to the tenant.
- subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
- sulfantimonide — any compound containing an antimonide and a sulfide.
- 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.
- synaptic cleft — the small gap, measured in nanometers, between an axon terminal and any of the cell membranes in the immediate vicinity.
- synthetic fuel — fuel in the form of liquid or gas (synthetic natural gas) manufactured from coal or in the form of oil extracted from shale or tar sands.
- teaching staff — those members of staff in a school, college, or university who teach
- the five towns — the name given in his fiction by Arnold Bennett to the Potteries towns (actually six in number) of Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke-upon-Trent, and Tunstall, now part of the city of Stoke-on-Trent
- 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.
- 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.
- transformative — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- transrectifier — a device, usually a vacuum tube, that provides transrectification.
- unfaithfulness — not faithful; false to duty, obligation, or promises; faithless; disloyal.
- unrightfulness — the quality of being unjust or unrightful
- user interface — the interface features through which users interact with the hardware and software of computers and other electronic devices. Abbreviation: UI.