16-letter words containing l, e, a, f
- releasing factor — a substance usually of hypothalamic origin that triggers the release of a particular hormone from an endocrine gland.
- rule of the road — any of the regulations concerning the safe handling of vessels under way with respect to one another, imposed by a government on ships in its own waters or upon its own ships on the high seas.
- safeguard clause — a clause in a contract, etc, that ensures the protection of something against problems, etc
- sales conference — meeting of salespeople
- saxifrage family — the plant family Saxifragaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and small trees having alternate or opposite leaves, clustered or solitary flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including the astilbe, currant, deutzia, gooseberry, hydrangea, mock orange, piggy-back plant, saxifrage, and strawberry geranium.
- scotch blackface — one of a Scottish breed of mountain sheep having a black face and growing long, coarse wool.
- seal of approval — royal stamp of endorsement
- seat of learning — People sometimes refer to a university or a similar institution as a seat of learning.
- self-abandonment — absence or lack of personal restraint.
- self-advancement — an act of moving forward.
- self-advertising — the act or practice of calling public attention to one's product, service, need, etc., especially by paid announcements in newspapers and magazines, over radio or television, on billboards, etc.: to get more customers by advertising.
- self-affirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
- self-approbation — approval; commendation.
- self-complacency — pleased with oneself; self-satisfied; smug.
- self-containment — the state of being self-contained.
- self-cultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- self-degradation — the act of degrading.
- self-deliverance — suicide.
- self-denigrating — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
- self-denigration — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
- self-deprecating — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
- self-deprecation — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
- self-deprecatory — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
- self-deprivation — the act of depriving.
- self-designation — a name taken for oneself or one's own people
- self-disparaging — that disparages; tending to belittle or bring reproach upon: a disparaging remark.
- self-dramatizing — exaggerating one's own qualities, role, situation, etc., for dramatic effect or as an attention-getting device; presenting oneself dramatically.
- self-elaboration — an act or instance of elaborating.
- self-enhancement — to raise to a higher degree; intensify; magnify: The candlelight enhanced her beauty.
- self-examination — examination into one's own state, conduct, motives, etc.
- self-exculpatory — intended to excuse oneself from blame or guilt
- self-explanatory — explaining itself; needing no explanation; obvious.
- self-explication — the act of explicating.
- self-humiliation — an act or instance of humiliating or being humiliated.
- self-indignation — strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base; righteous anger.
- self-integrating — to bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole.
- self-integration — an act or instance of combining into an integral whole.
- self-liquidating — capable of being sold and converted into cash within a short period of time or before the date on which the supplier must be paid.
- self-lubricating — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- self-lubrication — the process of becoming lubricated without external factors
- self-maintenance — the act of maintaining: the maintenance of proper oral hygiene.
- self-observation — an act or instance of noticing or perceiving.
- self-opinionated — conceited; having an inordinately high regard for oneself, one's own opinions, views, etc.
- self-pollination — the transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of the same flower, another flower on the same plant, or the flower of a plant of the same clone.
- self-preparation — a proceeding, measure, or provision by which one prepares for something: preparations for a journey.
- self-proclaiming — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- self-propagating — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- self-realization — the fulfillment of one's potential.
- self-referential — If you describe something such as a book or film as self-referential, you mean that it is concerned with things such as its own composition or with other similar books or films.
- self-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.