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13-letter words containing o, s, l, f, i

  • self-doubting — lacking in confidence
  • self-evolving — to develop gradually: to evolve a scheme.
  • self-exposing — to lay open to danger, attack, harm, etc.: to expose soldiers to gunfire; to expose one's character to attack.
  • self-hypnosis — autohypnosis.
  • self-ignition — the spontaneous combustion or ignition of something without any external spark or flame
  • self-ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
  • self-improver — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
  • self-involved — self-centered; preoccupied with oneself
  • self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
  • self-luminous — radiating or reflecting light; shining; bright.
  • self-oblivion — the state of being completely forgotten or unknown: a former movie star now in oblivion.
  • self-occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
  • 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-policing — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
  • self-portrait — a portrait of oneself done by oneself.
  • self-soothing — that soothes: a soothing voice.
  • self-violence — swift and intense force: the violence of a storm.
  • selling floor — floor (def 10).
  • semi-official — having some degree of official authority.
  • simplificator — a person who simplifies matters
  • slash fiction — a type or piece of fan fiction involving usually same-sex romantic relationships between fictional characters or famous people, whether or not the romances actually exist: Sherlock Holmes/Dr. Watson slash fiction. Also called slash.
  • slice of life — accurate depiction of reality
  • slice-of-life — of, relating to, or being a naturalistic, unembellished representation of real life: a play with slice-of-life dialogue.
  • social misfit — a person who does not conform to others' views of what is normal or acceptable in society
  • solifidianism — a person who maintains that faith alone, without the performance of good works, is all that is necessary for salvation.
  • spadicifloral — having flowers borne on a spadix
  • special offer — bargain
  • spider flower — cleome
  • spinuliferous — relating to a spine or spines
  • splendiferous — splendid; magnificent; fine.
  • staff of life — bread, considered as the mainstay of the human diet.
  • stoloniferous — producing or bearing stolons.
  • storax family — the plant family Styracaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having simple, alternate leaves, clusters of bell-shaped white flowers, and fleshy or dry fruit, and including the silver bell, snowbell, and storax.
  • strombuliform — in the shape of a coil
  • suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
  • sugar of milk — lactose.
  • sulfathiazole — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 9 H 9 N 3 O 2 S 2 , formerly used in the treatment of pneumonia and staphylococcal infections, but now largely replaced because of its toxicity.
  • sulfisoxazole — a white to yellowish, crystalline, slightly bitter sulfonamide, C 1 1 H 1 3 N 3 O 3 S, used chiefly in the treatment of infections of the urinary tract.
  • sulfonic acid — any of a large group of organic compounds of the structure RSO 2 OH, which are strong acids that give neutral sodium salts: used in the synthesis of phenols, dyes, and other substances.
  • sunflower oil — oil obtained from sunflower seeds
  • swift-flowing — moving rapidly
  • telescopiform — having body parts which resemble a telescope in that the retract within one another
  • think less of — to have a lower opinion of
  • transfusional — of or relating to transfusion
  • tropical fish — any of numerous small, usually brightly colored fishes, indigenous to the tropics, and often kept and bred in home aquariums.
  • tubuliflorous — having the corolla tubular in all the perfect flowers of a head, as certain composite plants.
  • umbelliferous — bearing an umbel or umbels.
  • unfashionable — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
  • unfashionably — in an unfashionable manner
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