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13-letter words containing s, e, y, f

  • halfway house — an inn or stopping place situated approximately midway between two places on a road.
  • harpers ferry — a town in NE West Virginia at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers: site of John Brown's raid 1859.
  • have eyes for — to be interested in
  • house of keys — the lower house of the legislature of the Isle of Man.
  • hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
  • hypersurfaces — Plural form of hypersurface.
  • hypoperfusion — (medicine) Decreased perfusion of blood through an organ.
  • if you ask me — You can say 'if you ask me' to emphasize that you are stating your personal opinion.
  • if you please — expressing mild outrage
  • infeasibility — not feasible; impracticable.
  • inoffensively — In an inoffensive manner.
  • insufficiency — deficiency in amount, force, power, competence, or fitness; inadequacy: insufficiency of supplies.
  • interstratify — to lie in interposed or alternate strata.
  • isle of youth — Isle of, an island in the Caribbean, a special municipality in S Cuba. 1182 sq. mi. (3060 sq. km).
  • jefferson day — April 13, Thomas Jefferson's birthday, a legal holiday in Alabama, sometimes celebrated by the Democratic Party by the holding of fund-raising dinners.
  • mellifluously — sweetly or smoothly flowing; sweet-sounding: a mellifluous voice; mellifluous tones.
  • methylsulfate — a colorless or yellow, slightly water-soluble, poisonous liquid, (CH 3) 2 SO 2 , used chiefly in organic synthesis.
  • monkey's fist — a ball-like knot used as an ornament or as a throwing weight at the end of a line.
  • myelofibrosis — the replacement of bone marrow by fibrous tissue, characteristic of leukemia and certain other diseases.
  • odoriferously — In an odoriferous manner.
  • physical file — (file system)   A low-level view of the physical characteristics of a file, such as its location on a disk or its physical structure, for example, whether indexed or sequential.
  • prefix syntax — prefix notation
  • proliferously — by proliferation
  • sacrifice fly — a fly ball when there are fewer than two players out that enables a base runner, usually at third base, to score after the ball is caught.
  • safety device — A safety device is a piece of equipment such as a fire extinguisher, safety belt, or burglar alarm that reduces loss or damage from a fire, accident, or break-in.
  • safety factor — the ratio of the maximum stress that a structural part or other piece of material can withstand to the maximum stress estimated for it in the use for which it is designed.
  • safety helmet — protective hard hat
  • safety island — an area provided for the safety of pedestrians from vehicular traffic, as between lanes on a busy street or highway.
  • safety lintel — an auxiliary lintel concealed behind a visible lintel, arch, etc.
  • safety margin — something required to ensure safety
  • safety screen — a screen covering a work area and protecting people and equipment from fire and other danger
  • sandfly fever — a usually mild viral disease occurring in hot, dry areas, characterized by fever, eye pain, and sometimes a rash, transmitted by sandflies of the genus Phlebotomus.
  • scientificity — the application of scientific methods and principles
  • screwworm fly — the adult screwworm.
  • 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.
  • security firm — a firm which provides guards for buildings, and other security services and personnel
  • self-advocacy — the practice of having mentally handicapped people speak for themselves and control their own affairs, rather than having nonhandicapped people automatically assume responsibility for them
  • self-analysis — the application of psychoanalytic techniques and theories to an analysis of one's own personality and behavior, especially without the aid of a psychiatrist or other trained person.
  • self-analyzed — having undergone self-analysis.
  • self-assembly — Self-assembly is used to refer to furniture and other goods that you buy in parts and that you have to put together yourself.
  • self-betrayal — to deliver or expose to an enemy by treachery or disloyalty: Benedict Arnold betrayed his country.
  • self-deifying — to make a god of; exalt to the rank of a deity; personify as a deity: to deify a beloved king.
  • 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-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-hypnosis — autohypnosis.
  • self-identify — identify (defs 7, 8): to self-identify as gay; to self-identify with others in the same situation.
  • self-identity — the identity or consciousness of identity of a thing with itself.
  • self-immunity — the state of being immune from or insusceptible to a particular disease or the like.
  • self-security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
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