14-letter words containing s, e, t, o, n, f
- self-confident — realistic confidence in one's own judgment, ability, power, etc.
- self-contained — containing in oneself or itself all that is necessary; independent.
- self-contented — contented with what one is or has
- self-deception — the act or fact of deceiving oneself.
- self-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
- self-enjoyment — the act of enjoying.
- self-formation — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
- self-important — having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompously conceited or haughty.
- self-induction — the process by which an electromotive force is induced in a circuit by a varying current in that circuit.
- self-laudation — an act or instance of lauding; encomium; tribute.
- self-operating — automatic.
- self-promotion — advancement in rank or position.
- self-restoring — to bring back into existence, use, or the like; reestablish: to restore order.
- self-selection — selection made by or for oneself: goods arranged on shelves for customer self-selection.
- self-valuation — an estimated value or worth.
- seventy-fourth — next after the seventy-third; being the ordinal number for 74.
- shortened form — an abbreviated form of a multisyllable word; clipped form.
- shortleaf pine — a pine, Pinus echinata, of the southern U.S., having short, flexible leaves.
- skeleton draft — a basic or minimum draft or outline
- skeleton staff — the minimum staff needed by a company during a time where most staff do not normally work, such as a holiday, weekend, etc
- soft margarine — a soft, spreadable margarine that is made with more liquid oils and less hydrogenated oils than hard, block margarine
- soft tree fern — an Australian tree fern, Dicksonia antarctica, with a thick trunk and large spreading green fronds
- sorting office — postal
- southern-fried — coated with flour, egg, and bread crumbs and fried in deep fat: Southern-fried chicken.
- sportfisherman — a motorboat fitted out for sportfishing.
- state function — a thermodynamic quantity that has definite values for given states of a system, such as entropy, enthalpy, free energy, etc
- stephen foster — Stephen (Collins) 1826–64, U.S. songwriter.
- stock transfer — Stock transfer is the act of moving goods from one part of the distribution chain to another.
- stockade fence — a fence of closely fitted vertical boards with pointed tops.
- stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
- stomachfulness — the quality of being stomachful
- subinfeudation — the granting of a portion of an estate by a feudal tenant to a subtenant, held from the tenant on terms similar to those of the grant to the tenant.
- subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
- sulfantimonide — any compound containing an antimonide and a sulfide.
- superconfident — very or extremely confident, overly confident
- superinfection — marked proliferation of a parasitic microorganism during antimicrobial treatment for another infection.
- superinflation — hyperinflation.
- the chosen few — a small group who are treated better than other people
- the five towns — the name given in his fiction by Arnold Bennett to the Potteries towns (actually six in number) of Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke-upon-Trent, and Tunstall, now part of the city of Stoke-on-Trent
- thetford mines — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: asbestos mining.
- thomson effect — the tendency of unevenly heated segments of a strip of a conductor to increase or decrease in temperature differences when an electric current is passed through the strip.
- thoughtfulness — showing consideration for others; considerate.
- to mend fences — If one country tries to mend fences with another, it tries to end a disagreement or quarrel with the other country. You can also say that two countries mend fences.
- transfer orbit — the flight path of a space vehicle moving from a nearly circular orbit to one with different parameters.
- transformative — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- transport café — an inexpensive eating place on a main route, used mainly by long-distance lorry drivers
- turn of events — If there is a particular turn of events, a particular series of things happen.
- turn of phrase — expression, wording
- vote of thanks — A vote of thanks is an official speech in which the speaker formally thanks a person for doing something.
- water softener — any of a group of substances that when added to water containing calcium and magnesium ions cause the ions to precipitate or change their usual properties: used in the purification of water for the laboratory, and for giving water more efficient sudsing ability with soap.