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16-letter words containing m, e, f, n

  • non-manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • of human bondage — a novel (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham.
  • okefenokee swamp — a large wooded swamp area in SE Georgia.
  • one/a false move — If you say that one false move will cause a disaster, you mean that you or someone else must not make any mistakes because the situation is so difficult or dangerous.
  • ostend manifesto — a declaration (1854) issued from Ostend, Belgium, by the U.S. ministers to England, France, and Spain, stating that the U.S. would be justified in seizing Cuba if Spain did not sell it to the U.S.
  • out of the money — If an investment is out of the money, it would be a loss if it was sold.
  • outsmart oneself — to have one's efforts at cunning or cleverness result in one's own disadvantage
  • performance bond — contract bond.
  • performance test — a test requiring little or no use of language, the test materials being designed to elicit manual or behavioral responses rather than verbal ones.
  • placement office — an office in a university that offers students careers advice and help to find employment
  • platform-balance — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
  • post-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
  • presence of mind — a calm state of mind that allows one to think clearly or act effectively in an emergency.
  • professionalisms — professional character, spirit, or methods.
  • ramen profitable — If a startup business is ramen profitable, it is barely profitable, just enough to allow the founder to live on the cheapest diet.
  • reference number — a unique number on an order, application, etc, used to designate and quickly locate that order, application, etc
  • reflexive domain — A domain satisfying a recursive domain equation. E.g. D = D -> D.
  • refreshment room — a room in a railway station where food and drink was served
  • remember oneself — to recover one's good manners after a lapse; stop behaving badly
  • safety mechanism — a psychological or physiological response in an individual that protects the individual from harm
  • scheme of things — Someone's scheme of things is the way in which they think that things in their life should be organized.
  • sea fish farming — the farming of saltwater fish
  • self-abandonment — absence or lack of personal restraint.
  • self-advancement — an act of moving forward.
  • self-affirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
  • self-complacency — pleased with oneself; self-satisfied; smug.
  • self-confinement — the act of confining.
  • self-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
  • self-containment — the state of being self-contained.
  • self-determinism — a theory that every present state or condition of the self is a result of previous states or conditions of the self.
  • self-development — the act or process of developing; growth; progress: child development; economic development.
  • self-discernment — the faculty of discerning; discrimination; acuteness of judgment and understanding.
  • self-dramatizing — exaggerating one's own qualities, role, situation, etc., for dramatic effect or as an attention-getting device; presenting oneself dramatically.
  • self-enforcement — of or having the capability of enforcement within oneself or itself; self-regulating.
  • 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-fulfillment — the act or fact of fulfilling one's ambitions, desires, etc., through one's own efforts.
  • self-humiliation — an act or instance of humiliating or being humiliated.
  • self-improvement — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
  • self-maintenance — the act of maintaining: the maintenance of proper oral hygiene.
  • self-nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
  • self-proclaiming — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
  • self-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
  • self-stimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • self-sustainment — self-supporting.
  • self-terminating — to bring to an end; put an end to: to terminate a contract.
  • semiprofessional — actively engaged in some field or sport for pay but on a part-time basis: semiprofessional baseball players.
  • small/fine print — The small print or the fine print of something such as an advertisement or a contract consists of the technical details and legal conditions, which are often printed in much smaller letters than the rest of the text.
  • smelting furnace — an industrial oven used to heat ore in order to extract metal
  • snoqualmie falls — falls of the Snoqualmie River, in W Washington. 270 feet (82 meters) high.
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