13-letter words containing i, n, f, r, e
- retrofittings — acts of retrofitting
- retroflection — a bending backward.
- return flight — a flight going back
- reunification — the process of unifying or uniting; union: the unification of the 13 original colonies.
- rifle grenade — a grenade designed to be fired from a grenade launcher attached to the muzzle of a rifle or carbine.
- river fishing — the sport of fishing in rivers
- role conflict — emotional conflict arising when competing demands are made on an individual in the fulfillment of his or her multiple social roles.
- rose of china — China rose (def 2).
- safety margin — something required to ensure safety
- scarfed joint — a lapped joint between two pieces of timber made by notching or grooving the ends and strapping, bolting, or gluing the two pieces together
- scene shifter — a person who changes scenes during a play
- school friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
- seafaring man — a sailor
- self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
- self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
- self-ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
- self-incurred — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
- self-interest — regard for one's own interest or advantage, especially with disregard for others.
- self-ordained — to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon.
- self-oriented — the Orient, the countries of Asia, especially East Asia. (formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- self-reliance — reliance on oneself or one's own powers, resources, etc.
- self-renewing — of or relating to the act of renewing oneself or itself
- self-resigned — submissive or acquiescent.
- self-righting — able to or designed to right itself or oneself after falling or capsizing.
- self-starting — starter (def 3).
- self-steering — maintaining a course without constant human action
- self-training — the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained: He's in training for the Olympics.
- selling floor — floor (def 10).
- semifurnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- sergeant fish — cobia
- seventy-first — next after the seventieth; being the ordinal number for 71.
- sheep farming — agriculture: sheep raising
- sigmund freud — Anna, 1895–1982, British psychoanalyst, born in Austria (daughter of Sigmund Freud).
- single father — a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
- single-figure — relating to numbers below ten
- southern fish — the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
- spinuliferous — relating to a spine or spines
- splendiferous — splendid; magnificent; fine.
- sponge finger — sweet finger-shaped biscuit
- staminiferous — bearing or having a stamen or stamens.
- stoloniferous — producing or bearing stolons.
- sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- sulfamerazine — a sulfa drug, C11H12N4O2S, a methyl derivative of sulfadiazine that is more rapidly absorbed
- sulfapyridine — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 1 1 H 1 1 N 3 O 2 S, formerly used for infections caused by pneumococci, now used primarily for a particular dermatitis.
- sunflower oil — oil obtained from sunflower seeds
- superfetation — the fertilization of an ovum in a female mammal already pregnant.
- surface noise — extraneous noise caused by physical wear or a physical flaw on a phonograph record or in a pickup system, rather than by a flaw in the equipment.
- swift current — a city in SW Saskatchewan, in S Canada.
- the archfiend — the chief of fiends or devils; Satan
- the foregoing — the one or ones previously mentioned