11-letter words containing n, s, f, i
- obfuscating — Present participle of obfuscate.
- obfuscation — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- off-license — a license permitting the sale of sealed bottles of alcoholic beverages to be taken away from the premises by the purchaser.
- offensively — causing resentful displeasure; highly irritating, angering, or annoying: offensive television commercials.
- offscouring — Often, offscourings. something scoured off; filth; refuse.
- offset-line — something that counterbalances, counteracts, or compensates for something else; compensating equivalent.
- old frisian — the Frisian language before c1500. Abbreviation: OFris.
- omnifarious — of all forms, varieties, or kinds.
- overfishing — to fish (an area) excessively; to exhaust the supply of usable fish in (certain waters): Scientists are concerned that fishing boats may overfish our coastal waters.
- ozoniferous — containing ozone.
- pension off — a fixed amount, other than wages, paid at regular intervals to a person or to the person's surviving dependents in consideration of past services, age, merit, poverty, injury or loss sustained, etc.: a retirement pension.
- personified — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- personifies — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- pierrefonds — a former city in S Quebec, Canada, now part of Montreal.
- pontificals — of, relating to, or characteristic of a pontiff; papal.
- prefinished — coated or treated before use or sale: prefinished wood.
- presanctify — to sanctify ahead of an event
- prison farm — a farm attached to a prison, where prisoners carry out hard labour
- profeminist — advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.
- quantifiers — Logic. an expression, as “all” or “some,” that indicates the quantity of a proposition. Compare existential quantifier, universal quantifier.
- rain forest — a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.
- rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
- rastafarian — a follower of Rastafarianism.
- rediffusion — act of diffusing; state of being diffused.
- refinedness — the quality or state of being refined; refinement
- reflections — thoughts, esp careful or long-considered ones
- resign-from — to give up an office or position, often formally (often followed by from): to resign from the presidency.
- riefenstahl — Leni [ley-nee] /ˈleɪ ni/ (Show IPA), 1902–2003, German film director.
- safekeeping — the act of keeping safe or the state of being kept safe; protection; care; custody.
- saint felix — Saint, died a.d. 530, pope 526–530.
- satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- satisficing — the act of satisficing
- scaffolding — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
- scarf joint — a joint in which two timbers or other structural members are fitted together with long end laps of various forms and held in place with bolts, straps, keys, fishplates, etc., to resist tension or compression.
- scene shift — the changing of scenes during a play
- schweinfurt — a city in N Bavaria, in S central Germany, on the Main River.
- scorpionfly — any of several harmless insects of the order Mecoptera, the male of certain species having a reproductive structure that resembles the sting of a scorpion.
- scruffiness — the state of being unkempt or shabby
- sdeignfully — disdainfully
- section off — If an area is sectioned off, it is separated by a wall, fence, or other barrier from the surrounding area.
- self-acting — acting by itself; automatic.
- self-binder — binder (def 5b).
- self-denial — the sacrifice of one's own desires; unselfishness.
- self-driven — (of a machine) containing its own power source, as an engine or motor.
- self-giving — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- self-hating — harbouring feelings of self-hatred
- self-ignite — to ignite without spark or flame.
- self-insure — to subject (one's property or interests) to self-insurance.
- self-making — the act of a person or thing that makes: The making of a violin requires great skill.
- self-minded — having a certain kind of mind (usually used in combination): strong-minded.