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13-letter words containing s, e, l, f, p

  • polliniferous — Botany. producing or bearing pollen.
  • press of sail — as much sail as the wind or other conditions will permit a ship to carry.
  • proliferously — by proliferation
  • pull a fastie — to play a sly trick
  • relief troops — soldiers sent to an area of conflict or a disaster area in order to provide aid or assistance there
  • reptiliferous — (of rocks, etc) yielding fossilized reptiles
  • scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
  • self-apparent — clear and evident without need of further evidence
  • self-approval — the act of approving; approbation.
  • self-composed — being or appearing to be composed; calm.
  • self-contempt — the feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.
  • self-depraved — corrupt, wicked, or perverted.
  • self-employed — earning one's living directly from one's own profession or business, as a freelance writer or artist, rather than as an employee earning salary or commission from another.
  • self-emptying — containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle.
  • self-exposing — to lay open to danger, attack, harm, etc.: to expose soldiers to gunfire; to expose one's character to attack.
  • self-exposure — the act of exposing, laying open, or uncovering: the sudden exposure of objects that were hidden under the blanket.
  • self-hypnosis — autohypnosis.
  • self-improver — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
  • self-occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
  • self-pampered — to treat or gratify with extreme or excessive indulgence, kindness, or care: to pamper a child; to pamper one's stomach.
  • self-pleasing — giving pleasure; agreeable; gratifying: a pleasing performance.
  • self-policing — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
  • self-portrait — a portrait of oneself done by oneself.
  • self-prepared — properly expectant, organized, or equipped; ready: prepared for a hurricane.
  • self-procured — to obtain or get by care, effort, or the use of special means: to procure evidence.
  • self-produced — produced by oneself or itself.
  • self-punitive — serving for, concerned with, or inflicting punishment: punitive laws; punitive action.
  • self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
  • special offer — bargain
  • 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.
  • speechfulness — the state of being full of speech or expression
  • spider flower — cleome
  • spinuliferous — relating to a spine or spines
  • splatter film — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
  • splendiferous — splendid; magnificent; fine.
  • 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.
  • spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
  • state of play — current situation
  • sulfapyridine — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 1 1 H 1 1 N 3 O 2 S, formerly used for infections caused by pneumococci, now used primarily for a particular dermatitis.
  • sulfate paper — paper made from sulfate pulp.
  • sulfite paper — paper made from sulfite pulp.
  • superficially — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • superfluidity — a fluid that exhibits frictionless flow, very high heat conductivity, and other unusual physical properties, helium below 2.186 K being the only known example.
  • superfluously — being more than is sufficient or required; excessive.
  • superpowerful — extremely powerful
  • surface plate — Machinery. a flat plate used by machinists for testing surfaces that are to be made perfectly flat.
  • suspensefully — in a suspenseful manner
  • tablespoonful — the amount a tablespoon can hold.
  • telescopiform — having body parts which resemble a telescope in that the retract within one another
  • unhelpfulness — the quality of giving no help
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