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14-letter words containing s, a, f, e, l

  • keep-fit class — an exercise class designed to promote physical fitness
  • lake whitefish — a whitefish, Coregonus clupeaformis, found in the Great Lakes and north to Alaska, used for food.
  • law of cosines — a law stating that the square of a side of a plane triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides minus twice the product of the other sides multiplied by the cosine of the angle between them.
  • leaf-nosed bat — any of various New and Old World bats, as of the families Phyllostomatidae, Rhinolophidae, and Hipposideridae, having a leaflike flap of skin at the tip of the nose.
  • life assurance — insurance: pays if holder dies
  • life insurance — insurance providing for payment of a sum of money to a named beneficiary upon the death of the policyholder or to the policyholder if still living after reaching a specified age.
  • lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
  • lindelof space — a topological space having the property that every cover consisting of open sets has a subcover consisting of a countable number of subsets.
  • lyre-form sofa — a sofa of the early 19th century having a front rail curving upward and outward at either end to form arms and terminating in a downward scroll.
  • malefactresses — a woman who violates the law or does evil.
  • man of letters — highly educated man
  • massif central — a great plateau and the chief water divide of France, in the central part.
  • meadow salsify — a European weedy, composite plant, Tragopogon pratensis, naturalized in North America, having grasslike leaves and yellow flowers.
  • meaningfulness — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
  • microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
  • moment of sail — the product of a given area of sail, taken as the maximum safe area, and the vertical distance from the center of effort and the center of lateral resistance.
  • moveable feast — a religious festival that occurs on a different date each year
  • music festival — a festival, often an annual event, at which a lot of different performers play
  • new federalism — a plan, announced in 1969, to turn over the control of some federal programs to state and local governments and institute block grants, revenue sharing, etc.
  • newfangledness — of a new kind or fashion: newfangled ideas.
  • non-classified — arranged or distributed in classes or according to class: We plan to review all the classified specimens in the laboratory.
  • nonfilamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
  • nonfissionable — not able to undergo fission
  • nuclear fusion — fusion (def 4).
  • on sb's behalf — If you do something on someone's behalf, you do it for that person as their representative.
  • one false move — You use one false move to introduce the very bad or serious consequences which will result if someone makes a mistake, even a very small one.
  • ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
  • paper-shuffler — a person who has a routine desk job.
  • parsley family — the plant family Umbelliferae (or Apiaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants having alternate, usually compound leaves, hollow stems, numerous small flowers borne in umbels, and dry, seedlike, often aromatic fruit, and including anise, caraway, carrot, celery, dill, parsley, parsnip, and Queen Anne's lace, as well as poisonous plants such as cowbane and water hemlock.
  • patresfamilias — a plural of paterfamilias.
  • pay for itself — If something that you buy or invest in pays for itself after a period of time, the money you gain from it, or save because you have it, is greater than the amount you originally spent or invested.
  • personal staff — the aides of a general officer or a flag officer.
  • platform scale — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
  • platform shoes — shoes: thick sole
  • platform soles — very thick soles on a pair of shoes
  • play for keeps — to do something seriously and without showing any mercy
  • pleasure craft — A pleasure craft is the same as a pleasure boat.
  • professionally — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
  • radium sulfate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous, radioactive solid, RaSO 4 , used chiefly in radiotherapy.
  • rafferty rules — no rules at all
  • repeat oneself — to say or do the same thing more than once, esp so as to be tedious
  • safety islands — a group of three small French islands in the Atlantic, off the coast of French Guiana
  • sales forecast — a prediction of future sales of a product, either judgmental or based on previous sales patterns
  • sanford b dole — Robert J(oseph) born 1923, U.S. politician: senator 1969–96.
  • santa fe trail — an important trade route going between Independence, Missouri, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, used from about 1821 to 1880.
  • scientifically — of or relating to science or the sciences: scientific studies.
  • sea of galilee — a lake in NE Israel, 209 m (686 ft) below sea level, through which the River Jordan flows. Area: 165 sq km (64 sq miles)
  • sean o'faolain — Seán [shawn] /ʃɔn/ (Show IPA), 1900–91, Irish writer and teacher.
  • self assertive — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
  • self-abandoned — lacking self-control; giving in to one's impulses.
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