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15-letter words containing n, e, c, s

  • self-afflicting — to distress with mental or bodily pain; trouble greatly or grievously: to be afflicted with arthritis.
  • self-analytical — the application of psychoanalytic techniques and theories to an analysis of one's own personality and behavior, especially without the aid of a psychiatrist or other trained person.
  • self-censorship — the act or practice of censoring.
  • self-combustion — the act or process of burning.
  • self-commitment — the act of committing.
  • self-committing — to give in trust or charge; consign.
  • self-complacent — pleased with oneself; self-satisfied; smug.
  • self-conception — self-concept.
  • self-confidence — realistic confidence in one's own judgment, ability, power, etc.
  • self-consistent — consistent with oneself or itself.
  • self-controlled — Someone who is self-controlled is able to not show their feelings or not do the things that their feelings make them want to do.
  • self-correcting — automatically adjusting to or correcting mistakes, malfunctions, etc.: a self-correcting mechanism.
  • self-dedication — the act of dedicating.
  • self-dependence — the state of relying on or needing someone or something for aid, support, or the like.
  • self-diagnostic — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
  • self-discipline — discipline and training of oneself, usually for improvement: Acquiring the habit of promptness requires self-discipline.
  • self-effacement — the act or fact of keeping oneself in the background, as in humility.
  • self-enrichment — an act of enriching.
  • self-inductance — inductance inducing an electromotive force in the same circuit in which the motivating change of current occurs, equal to the number of flux linkages per unit of current.
  • self-indulgence — indulging one's own desires, passions, whims, etc., especially without restraint.
  • self-infliction — inflicted by oneself upon oneself: a self-inflicted wound.
  • self-inoculated — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
  • self-inspection — the act of inspecting or viewing, especially carefully or critically: an inspection of all luggage on the plane.
  • self-lacerating — to tear roughly; mangle: The barbed wire lacerated his hands.
  • self-laceration — the result of lacerating; a rough, jagged tear.
  • self-medication — the use of medicine without medical supervision to treat one's own ailment.
  • self-perception — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
  • self-preference — the act of preferring.
  • self-production — produced by oneself or itself.
  • self-protection — protection of oneself or itself.
  • self-rectifying — to make, put, or set right; remedy; correct: He sent them a check to rectify his account.
  • self-reflection — the act of reflecting, as in casting back a light or heat, mirroring, or giving back or showing an image; the state of being reflected in this way.
  • self-renouncing — to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
  • self-respecting — You can use self-respecting with a noun describing a particular type of person to indicate that something is typical of, or necessary for, that type of person.
  • self-sufficient — able to supply one's own or its own needs without external assistance: The nation grows enough grain to be self-sufficient.
  • self-sustenance — means of sustaining life; nourishment.
  • semantic memory — the recollection of facts and concepts
  • semi-analytical — pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).
  • semi-conductive — Semi-conductive describes a component which conducts electricity less well than a good conductor but better than an insulator.
  • semi-functional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • semiabstraction — a work of art whose subject matter is semi-abstract
  • semicolonialism — the state of being semicolonial
  • semicrystalline — partly or imperfectly crystalline.
  • semicylindrical — of, relating to, or having the shape of a semicylinder
  • semidocumentary — a film or television programme that is fictional but includes many factual events or details
  • semimanufacture — a product which forms an intermediate stage in the manufacture of another, often more complex product
  • seminal vesicle — either of two small saclike glands, located on each side of the bladder in males, that add nutrient fluid to semen during ejaculation.
  • semitranslucent — imperfectly or almost translucent.
  • senior lecturer — a university teacher who does not hold a professorship.
  • sentence adverb — an adverb modifying or commenting upon the content of a sentence as a whole or upon the conditions under which it is uttered, as frankly in Frankly, he can't be trusted.
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