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13-letter words containing r, a, f, l

  • reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
  • retrofittable — to modify equipment (in airplanes, automobiles, a factory, etc.) that is already in service using parts developed or made available after the time of original manufacture.
  • reversal film — film developed by the reversal process.
  • reverse fault — a fault in which the rock above the fault plane is displaced upward relative to the rock below the fault plane (opposed to gravity fault).
  • rifle grenade — a grenade designed to be fired from a grenade launcher attached to the muzzle of a rifle or carbine.
  • rock-fill dam — a dam built mainly of rocks of various sizes fitted compactly together.
  • ruled surface — a surface that can be generated by a straight line, as a cylinder or cone.
  • sacrifice fly — a fly ball when there are fewer than two players out that enables a base runner, usually at third base, to score after the ball is caught.
  • sacrificially — pertaining to or concerned with sacrifice.
  • saddle oxford — saddle shoe.
  • safflower oil — an oil expressed or extracted fromsafflower seeds, used in cooking, as a salad oil, and as a vehicle for medicines, paints, varnishes, etc.
  • sales figures — the amount of sales of something within a particular time frame
  • sandfly fever — a usually mild viral disease occurring in hot, dry areas, characterized by fever, eye pain, and sometimes a rash, transmitted by sandflies of the genus Phlebotomus.
  • sassafras oil — a yellowish or reddish-yellow, aromatic volatile oil distilled from sassafras root, used in flavoring, perfumery, and medicine.
  • scalariformly — in a scalariform or ladder-like manner
  • scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
  • scarlet fever — a contagious febrile disease caused by streptococci and characterized by a scarlet eruption.
  • sea butterfly — any member of the gastropod order Pteropoda, shelled marine mollusks so called for their ability to swim using winglike extensions of the foot.
  • self-absorbed — preoccupied with one's thoughts, interests, etc.
  • self-apparent — clear and evident without need of further evidence
  • self-approval — the act of approving; approbation.
  • self-betrayal — to deliver or expose to an enemy by treachery or disloyalty: Benedict Arnold betrayed his country.
  • self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
  • self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
  • self-critical — capable of criticizing oneself objectively.
  • self-declared — proclaiming oneself to be
  • self-depraved — corrupt, wicked, or perverted.
  • self-enamored — to fill or inflame with love (usually used in the passive and followed by of or sometimes with): to be enamored of a certain lady; a brilliant woman with whom he became enamored.
  • self-flattery — praise and exaggeration of one's own achievements coupled with a denial or glossing over of one's faults or failings; self-congratulation.
  • self-ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
  • self-ordained — to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon.
  • self-pampered — to treat or gratify with extreme or excessive indulgence, kindness, or care: to pamper a child; to pamper one's stomach.
  • self-portrait — a portrait of oneself done by oneself.
  • self-prepared — properly expectant, organized, or equipped; ready: prepared for a hurricane.
  • self-reliance — reliance on oneself or one's own powers, resources, etc.
  • self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
  • self-starting — starter (def 3).
  • self-training — the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained: He's in training for the Olympics.
  • shelf-stacker — a person whose job is to fill the shelves and displays in a supermarket or other shop with goods for sale
  • simplificator — a person who simplifies matters
  • single father — a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • slatted floor — a floor made with slats of wood so that water can drain away
  • slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
  • small fortune — a large sum of money
  • small forward — a versatile attacking player
  • solar furnace — a furnace using sunlight concentrated by concave mirrors as the direct source of heat.
  • spadicifloral — having flowers borne on a spadix
  • special offer — bargain
  • splatter film — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
  • spruce sawfly — any of several sawflies of the family Diprionidae, especially Diprion hercyniae (European spruce sawfly) the larvae of which feed on the foliage of spruce.
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