12-letter words containing s, e, n, o, f
- self-content — satisfaction with oneself; self-complacency.
- self-control — control or restraint of oneself or one's actions, feelings, etc.
- self-cooking — the act of a person or thing that cooks.
- self-honored — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
- self-loading — noting or pertaining to an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- self-locking — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- self-mocking — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- self-offense — a violation or breaking of a social or moral rule; transgression; sin.
- self-opinion — opinion of oneself, especially when unduly high.
- self-proving — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- self-torment — an act or instance of tormenting oneself, as with worry or guilt.
- self-tuition — the charge or fee for instruction, as at a private school or a college or university: The college will raise its tuition again next year.
- sell oneself — to convince someone else of one's potential or worth
- semi-fiction — the class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration, especially in prose form.
- semifloating — noting or pertaining to a driving axle of an automobile or the like, the inner end of which is carried by the differential gear and the outer end of which is keyed to a wheel supported by the axle housing.
- seminiferous — Anatomy. conveying or containing semen.
- send out for — If you send out for food, for example pizzas or sandwiches, you phone and ask for it to be delivered to you.
- serpentiform — shaped like a snake.
- set function — a function having a collection of sets as domain.
- seventy-four — a cardinal number, 70 plus 4.
- sex offender — a person who has been found guilty of one or more sex crimes.
- shingle roof — a roof covered with thin rectangular tiles, esp made of wood, that are laid with others in overlapping rows
- slothfulness — sluggardly; indolent; lazy.
- sneak out of — leave secretly
- snotty-faced — having visible nasal mucus on the face
- soft chancre — chancroid.
- soft science — any of the specialized fields or disciplines, as psychology, sociology, anthropology, or political science, that interpret human behavior, institutions, society, etc., on the basis of scientific investigations for which it may be difficult to establish strictly measurable criteria.
- soft-centred — (of a chocolate or boiled sweet) having a centre consisting of cream, jelly, etc
- somnifacient — causing or inducing sleep.
- soprano clef — a sign locating middle C on the bottom line of the staff.
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- sound effect — any sound, other than music or speech, artificially reproduced to create an effect in a dramatic presentation, as the sound of a storm or a creaking door.
- stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing
- stormfulness — the quality or state of being stormful
- strong force — Also called nuclear force. the short-range attractive force between baryons that holds together the nucleus of the atom.
- stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
- subinfection — an act or fact of infecting; state of being infected.
- suit oneself — a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together.
- sulfonylurea — any of a group of oral drugs, as tolbutamide, that stimulate the pancreas to secrete more insulin, used to treat diabetes
- superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
- take offense — If someone takes offense at something you say or do, they feel upset, often unnecessarily, because they think you are being rude to them.
- titaniferous — containing or yielding titanium.
- toffee-nosed — stuck-up; conceited; pretentious: a toffee-nosed butler; a toffee-nosed shop.
- transfection — the insertion into a cell of a bacterial plasmid that contains a foreign virus or genetic material.
- transfer box — A transfer box is a gear system that divides the power between the front and rear axles of a four-wheel drive system.
- unconfusedly — in an unconfused manner
- unforecasted — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- unforeseeing — not foreseeing
- unfossilized — not fossilized
- unobfuscated — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.