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14-letter words containing r, o, f, l, e, s

  • self professed — avowed; acknowledged.
  • self-adornment — something that adds attractiveness; ornament; accessory: the adornments and furnishings of a room.
  • self-assertion — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
  • self-composure — calmness and self-possession
  • self-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
  • self-discovery — process of understanding oneself
  • self-enforcing — of or having the capability of enforcement within oneself or itself; self-regulating.
  • self-engrossed — to occupy completely, as the mind or attention; absorb: Their discussion engrossed his attention. She is engrossed in her work.
  • self-forgetful — forgetful or not thinking of one's own advantage, interest, etc.
  • self-formation — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
  • self-glorified — to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.
  • self-governing — governed by itself or having self-government, as a state or community; independent.
  • self-important — having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompously conceited or haughty.
  • self-laudatory — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.
  • self-operating — automatic.
  • self-operative — automatic.
  • self-ownership — the state or fact of being an owner.
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • self-performed — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
  • self-professed — avowed; acknowledged.
  • self-promotion — advancement in rank or position.
  • self-propelled — propelled by itself.
  • self-provision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
  • self-reckoning — count; computation; calculation.
  • self-recording — recording automatically, as an instrument.
  • self-restoring — to bring back into existence, use, or the like; reestablish: to restore order.
  • self-righteous — confident of one's own righteousness, especially when smugly moralistic and intolerant of the opinions and behavior of others.
  • seward's folly — the purchase of Alaska in 1867, through the negotiations of Secretary of State W. H. Seward.
  • shortleaf pine — a pine, Pinus echinata, of the southern U.S., having short, flexible leaves.
  • sigh of relief — audible breath when difficulty is over
  • skeleton draft — a basic or minimum draft or outline
  • social welfare — social services provided by a government for its citizens.
  • soft sculpture — sculpture principally in vinyl, canvas, or other flexible material reproducing objects of characteristically rigid construction, as an electric fan, a typewriter, a set of drums, or a bathtub, in forms having a malleable texture and a liquescent, somewhat deflated appearance.
  • space platform — space station.
  • speak well for — to say or indicate something favorable about
  • special forces — crack military team
  • square oneself — to make amends for damage, a wrong, hurt, etc. done by oneself to another
  • steer clear of — to guide the course of (something in motion) by a rudder, helm, wheel, etc.: to steer a bicycle.
  • store of value — the function of money that enables goods and services to be paid for a considerable time after they have been acquired
  • sulfinpyrazone — a substance, C 2 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 3 S, used in the treatment of chronic gout.
  • sulfur dioxide — a colorless, nonflammable, water-soluble, suffocating gas, SO 2 , formed when sulfur burns: used chiefly in the manufacture of chemicals such as sulfuric acid, in preserving fruits and vegetables, and in bleaching, disinfecting, and fumigating.
  • sulphur-flower — a plant, Eriogonum umbellatum, of the buckwheat family, native to the western coast of the U.S., having leaves with white, woolly hairs on the underside and golden-yellow flowers.
  • superinflation — hyperinflation.
  • the oslo fjord — a bay in the southeast of Norway (an inlet of the Skagerrak)
  • thomas raffles — Sir Thomas Stamford, 1781–1826, English colonial administrator in the East Indies.
  • un-resourceful — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.
  • unprofessional — not professional; not pertaining to or characteristic of a profession.
  • unremorsefully — in an unremorseful or impenitent manner
  • waltham forest — a borough of Greater London, England.
  • wollstonecraft — Mary (Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) 1759–97, English author and feminist (mother of Mary Shelley).
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