11-letter words containing r, s, f
- screencraft — the skills and talent involved in writing or making a movie
- scroll foot — French foot (def 1).
- scruffiness — the state of being unkempt or shabby
- scuff marks — marks made by scuffing
- sea feather — any of several anthozoans of the order Gorgonacea, in which the colony assumes a featherlike shape.
- sefer torah — Sepher Torah.
- self-binder — binder (def 5b).
- self-desire — to wish or long for; crave; want.
- self-driven — (of a machine) containing its own power source, as an engine or motor.
- self-feeder — an apparatus or machine that automatically discharges a supply of some material, especially one consisting of a hopper and a trough for feeding livestock.
- self-formed — external appearance of a clearly defined area, as distinguished from color or material; configuration: a triangular form.
- self-hatred — the feeling of one who hates; intense dislike or extreme aversion or hostility.
- self-insure — to subject (one's property or interests) to self-insurance.
- self-loader — semiautomatic (def 3).
- self-mailer — an advertisement, booklet, or the like, that has space for a name, address, and postage and can be mailed without a wrapper or envelope.
- self-murder — suicide
- self-parody — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
- self-praise — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- self-profit — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
- self-reform — the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.: social reform; spelling reform.
- self-regard — consideration for oneself or one's own interests.
- self-rising — rising without the addition of leaven: self-rising pancake flour.
- self-ruling — of or relating to self-rule
- self-seeker — a person who seeks his or her own interest or selfish ends.
- self-slayer — one who kills oneself.
- self-strong — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
- self-tender — an offer by a company to buy back some or all of its shares from its shareholders, esp as a protection against an unwelcome takeover bid
- septiferous — in possession of a septum or partition
- septifragal — (of a capsule) dehiscing by breaking away from the partitions but remaining attached to the common axis; dehiscing at the valves or backs of the carpels but leaving the septa intact.
- server farm — a collection of computer servers (usually in a business, organization, etc) used to accomplish tasks for which multiple machines are needed
- set fire to — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
- set forward — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- set on fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
- severalfold — comprising several parts or members.
- sewage farm — a place where sewage is treated, esp for use as manure
- shaft grave — a grave consisting of a deep, rectangular pit with vertical sides, roofed over with a stone slab.
- shaftesbury — Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of, 1621–83, English statesman.
- share draft — an interest-bearing checking account in a credit union.
- sharefarmer — a farmer who pays a fee to another in return for use of land to raise crops, etc
- shear force — Shear force is force that makes one surface of a substance move over another parallel surface.
- shelf paper — paper used for covering shelves, especially those of a cupboard or kitchen cabinet.
- shelftalker — a promotional sign used by a retailer to draw attention to a featured product on the shelf
- shellflower — an eastern Asian plant, Alpinia zerumbet, of the ginger family, having pendulous clusters of fragrant white flowers with variegated markings.
- sheriffalty — shrievalty.
- sheriffwick — shrievalty.
- shield fern — any of numerous ferns of the genera Dryopteris and Polystichum, having shield-shaped indusia.
- shift gears — change speed manually in a vehicle
- shift lever — the lever mounted on the steering column or floor of a vehicle that enables the driver to shift gears.
- ship of war — warship.
- shirt front — the front of a shirt, especially the part that is exposed when a jacket or vest is worn.