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11-letter words containing s, e, n, f

  • self-insure — to subject (one's property or interests) to self-insurance.
  • self-making — the act of a person or thing that makes: The making of a violin requires great skill.
  • self-minded — having a certain kind of mind (usually used in combination): strong-minded.
  • self-moving — capable of moving without an external agency.
  • self-rising — rising without the addition of leaven: self-rising pancake flour.
  • self-ruling — of or relating to self-rule
  • 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
  • selfishness — devoted to or caring only for oneself; concerned primarily with one's own interests, benefits, welfare, etc., regardless of others.
  • send flying — to dismiss or cause to depart hurriedly
  • sending-off — If there is a sending-off during a game of football, a player is told to leave the field by the referee, as a punishment for seriously breaking the rules.
  • 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.
  • set on foot — to initiate or start (something)
  • shelf angle — an angle iron attached to or suspended from a girder to carry masonry or the ends of a number of joists.
  • shield fern — any of numerous ferns of the genera Dryopteris and Polystichum, having shield-shaped indusia.
  • significate — something signified
  • silicon fen — an area of Cambridgeshire, esp around the city of Cambridge, in which industries associated with information technology are concentrated
  • silver fern — a formalized spray of fern leaf, silver on a black background: the symbol of New Zealand sporting teams, esp the All Blacks
  • sinfonietta — a short symphony.
  • single file — a line of persons or things arranged one behind the other; Indian file.
  • single-foot — rack3 (def 1).
  • skin effect — the phenomenon in which an alternating current tends to concentrate in the outer layer of a conductor, caused by the self-induction of the conductor and resulting in increased resistance.
  • slacken off — If something slackens off, it becomes slower, less active, or less intense.
  • snail fever — schistosomiasis.
  • snailflower — a tropical vine, Vigna caracalla, of the legume family, having fragrant, yellowish or purplish flowers, a segment of which is shaped like a snail's shell.
  • snake fence — a fence, zigzag in plan, made of rails resting across one another at an angle.
  • sneak thief — a burglar who sneaks into houses through open doors, windows, etc.
  • sniffer dog — a dog trained to find illegal drugs or explosives by smell.
  • snuff movie — Slang. a pornographic film that shows an actual murder of one of the performers, as at the end of a sadistic act.
  • snuff-movie — Slang. a pornographic film that shows an actual murder of one of the performers, as at the end of a sadistic act.
  • soft centre — a chocolate that has a soft filling
  • soft hyphen — a hyphen that is used only in breaking a word at the end of a line of text.
  • soft pencil — a type of pencil that contains a thicker, oilier and darker form of graphite
  • soft-finned — having fins supported by articulated rays rather than by spines, as a malacopterygian.
  • soft-spoken — (of persons) speaking with a soft or gentle voice; mild.
  • somniferous — bringing or inducing sleep, as drugs or influences.
  • spacefaring — space travel
  • spendthrift — a person who spends possessions or money extravagantly or wastefully; prodigal.
  • spent force — If you refer to someone who used to be powerful as a spent force, you mean that they no longer have any power or influence.
  • spiniferous — (esp of plants) bearing spines or thorns
  • spite fence — a wall or fence erected solely to annoy one's neighbor or lower the value of his or her property.
  • springfield — a state in the central United States: a part of the Midwest. 56,400 sq. mi. (146,075 sq. km). Capital: Springfield. Abbreviation: IL (for use with zip code), Ill.
  • staff nurse — nurse who works on a ward
  • steak knife — a sharp dinner knife the blade of which is made of steel and usually serrated, used in cutting meat.
  • steppenwolf — a novel (1927) by Hermann Hesse.
  • stiffnecked — having a stiff neck; having torticollis.
  • stiffnesses — rigid or firm; difficult or impossible to bend or flex: a stiff collar.
  • stone fruit — a fruit with a stone or hard endocarp, as a peach or plum; drupe.
  • stone-faced — having a rigid, expressionless face.
  • stony-faced — having a rigid, expressionless face.
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