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14-letter words containing s, f, e

  • supereffective — very or extremely effective
  • superefficient — extremely efficient
  • superfecundity — the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
  • superficiality — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • superficialize — to treat things superficially
  • superinfection — marked proliferation of a parasitic microorganism during antimicrobial treatment for another infection.
  • superinflation — hyperinflation.
  • surface worker — a person who works on or near the ground surface
  • surface-active — (of a substance, esp a detergent) capable of lowering the surface tension of a liquid, usually water
  • surface-to-air — (of a missile, message, etc.) capable of traveling from the surface of the earth to a target in the atmosphere.
  • surfer's knobs — a tumorlike nodule below a surfer's knee or on the upper area of the foot, caused by pressure on the skin and tissue exerted by the surfboard.
  • susceptible of — that gives a chance for; admitting; allowing
  • sweet woodruff — any of several plants belonging to the genus Asperula or Galium, of the madder family, as G. odoratum (sweet woodruff) a fragrant plant with small white flowers.
  • synaptic cleft — the small gap, measured in nanometers, between an axon terminal and any of the cell membranes in the immediate vicinity.
  • synthetic fuel — fuel in the form of liquid or gas (synthetic natural gas) manufactured from coal or in the form of oil extracted from shale or tar sands.
  • szekesfehervar — a city in W central Hungary.
  • take sb's life — If someone takes another person's life, they kill them. If someone takes their own life, they kill themselves.
  • take years off — to make (someone) feel or look much younger
  • teaching staff — those members of staff in a school, college, or university who teach
  • terms of trade — the ratio of export prices to import prices. It measures a nation's trading position, which improves when export prices rise faster or fall slower than import prices
  • the chosen few — a small group who are treated better than other people
  • the federalist — a set of 85 articles by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, published in 1787 and 1788, analyzing the Constitution of the U.S. and urging its adoption
  • 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
  • the footlights — the theater, or acting as a profession
  • the kiwi ferns — the women's international Rugby League football team of New Zealand
  • the oslo fjord — a bay in the southeast of Norway (an inlet of the Skagerrak)
  • the reverse of — emphatically not; not at all
  • the-federalist — a series of 85 essays (1787–88) by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, written in support of the Constitution.
  • thetford mines — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: asbestos mining.
  • thomas raffles — Sir Thomas Stamford, 1781–1826, English colonial administrator in the East Indies.
  • 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 make a fuss — If you make a fuss or kick up a fuss about something, you become angry or excited about it and complain.
  • 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.
  • tourist office — information centre for sightseers
  • transfer agent — a person, bank, or trust company officially designated to act for a corporation in executing and recording the transfers of its stock from one legal owner to another.
  • transfer orbit — the flight path of a space vehicle moving from a nearly circular orbit to one with different parameters.
  • transferential — of, relating to, or involving transference.
  • 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
  • transrectifier — a device, usually a vacuum tube, that provides transrectification.
  • turkish coffee — a strong, usually sweetened coffee, made by boiling the pulverized coffee beans.
  • turn of events — If there is a particular turn of events, a particular series of things happen.
  • turn of phrase — expression, wording
  • un-resourceful — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.
  • uncheerfulness — (of a person) lack of cheerfulness; gloominess; unhappiness
  • unclassifiable — that cannot be categorized
  • unfaithfulness — not faithful; false to duty, obligation, or promises; faithless; disloyal.
  • unfriendedness — the state of being unfriended
  • ungracefulness — the state of being ungraceful
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