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13-letter words containing s, a, f, e, t

  • sales leaflet — a leaflet or brochure used by a company to promote its goods, products, or services to the public
  • sassafras tea — a tea made from the aromatic dried bark of the root of the sassafras tree, often used medicinally as a stimulant, diaphoretic, and diuretic.
  • saturated fat — a type of single-bond animal or vegetable fat, as that found in butter, meat, egg yolks, and coconut or palm oil, that in humans tends to increase cholesterol levels in the blood. Compare saturated (def 3).
  • scarfed joint — a lapped joint between two pieces of timber made by notching or grooving the ends and strapping, bolting, or gluing the two pieces together
  • scarlet fever — a contagious febrile disease caused by streptococci and characterized by a scarlet eruption.
  • scathefulness — the state or quality of being harmful or injurious
  • schutzstaffel — an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force. Abbreviation: SS.
  • 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-admitted — admitting to a specific charge or accusation; self-confessed: a self-admitted spy.
  • self-anointed — to rub or sprinkle on; apply an unguent, ointment, or oily liquid to.
  • self-apparent — clear and evident without need of further evidence
  • 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-chastise — to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
  • self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
  • self-critical — capable of criticizing oneself objectively.
  • self-donation — an act or instance of presenting something as a gift, grant, or contribution.
  • self-educated — educated by one's own efforts, especially without formal instruction.
  • self-estimate — to form an approximate judgment or opinion regarding the worth, amount, size, weight, etc., of; calculate approximately: to estimate the cost of a college education.
  • 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-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
  • self-medicate — to medicate oneself without consulting a physician
  • self-negating — to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: an investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
  • self-portrait — a portrait of oneself done by oneself.
  • self-standing — An object or structure that is self-standing is not supported by other objects or structures.
  • 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.
  • semi-finalist — A semi-finalist is a player, athlete, or team that is competing in a semi-final.
  • sensate focus — a series of touching exercises designed to increase intimacy in a sexual relationship
  • sergeant fish — cobia
  • shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
  • shaft feather — one of the two fletchings on an arrow
  • shamefastness — the state or quality of being modest, shy, or bashful
  • shape-shifter — a creature or thing that can change shape at will or that does so under certain conditions
  • shelf-stacker — a person whose job is to fill the shelves and displays in a supermarket or other shop with goods for sale
  • ship of state — a nation or its affairs likened to a ship under sail.
  • short-staffed — A company or place that is short-staffed does not have enough people working there.
  • show the flag — to assert a claim, as to a territory or stretch of water, by military presence
  • significative — serving to signify.
  • 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
  • snap fastener — A snap fastener is a small metal object used to fasten clothes, made up of two parts which can be pressed together.
  • soixante-neuf — sixty-nine (def 4).
  • soothfastness — the state of being soothfast
  • space fiction — a book, film, TV series, etc, set in outer space
  • special staff — all staff officers assigned to headquarters of a division or higher unit who are not members of the general staff or personal staff.
  • specific heat — the number of calories required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance 1°C, or the number of BTU's per pound per degree F.
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