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12-letter words containing s, i, d, f

  • red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
  • redispose of — to dispose of again
  • safe-deposit — providing safekeeping for valuables: a safe-deposit vault.
  • sanctifiedly — in a sanctified manner
  • scabbardfish — any of several marine fishes having a long, compressed, silvery body, especially a cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus, of the western Atlantic.
  • scalar field — a region with a number assigned at each point.
  • scared stiff — terrified
  • sedge family — the plant family Cyperaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, often found in wet areas, having solid stems, narrow, grasslike leaves with closed sheaths, spikes of very small flowers set in a scalelike bract, and a dry, flattened, convex fruit, and including the bulrush, chufa, cotton grass, papyrus, and umbrella plant.
  • self-blinded — unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless: a blind man.
  • self-damning — causing incrimination: damning evidence.
  • self-dealing — financial transaction conducted on a personal, nonbusinesslike basis, as lending or borrowing of corporate money by a director.
  • self-defined — to state or set forth the meaning of (a word, phrase, etc.): They disagreed on how to define “liberal.”.
  • self-denying — the sacrifice of one's own desires; unselfishness.
  • self-devised — to contrive, plan, or elaborate; invent from existing principles or ideas: to devise a method.
  • self-disdain — to look upon or treat with contempt; despise; scorn.
  • self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
  • self-driving — (of a machine) operating without the guidance of a human.
  • self-evident — evident in itself without proof or demonstration; axiomatic.
  • self-excited — noting a generator with magnets that are excited by the current it produces.
  • self-feeding — automatically supplying itself with what is needed, as a machine
  • self-imposed — imposed on one by oneself: a self-imposed task.
  • self-induced — induced by oneself or itself.
  • self-limited — (of a disease) running a definite and limited course.
  • self-loading — noting or pertaining to an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
  • self-reading — the action or practice of a person who reads.
  • self-studies — the study of something by oneself, as through books, records, etc., without direct supervision or attendance in a class: She learned to read German by self-study.
  • self-winding — kept wound or wound periodically by a mechanism, as an electric motor or a system of weighted levers, so that winding by hand is not necessary.
  • semifinished — partially or almost finished.
  • serous fluid — any of various clear, watery fluids in the body.
  • sinking fund — a fund to extinguish an indebtedness, usually a bond issue.
  • sir sandford — Mount, a mountain in SE British Columbia, Canada, in the Selkirk Mountains. 11,590 feet (3533 meters).
  • sniff around — dog: try to pick up scent
  • soft landing — space vehicle
  • solid figure — a figure that has three dimensions
  • soufflé dish — A dish for making souffles
  • spina bifida — a congenital neural tube defect in which part of the meninges or spinal cord protrudes through the spinal column, often resulting in neurological impairment.
  • spinal fluid — cerebrospinal fluid
  • spindle file — a device for holding bills, memos, etc., having a projecting metal spike or hooked object on which to stick papers.
  • spiny-finned — having fins with sharp bony rays, as an acanthopterygian.
  • stand in for — to substitute for
  • stand-offish — If you say that someone is stand-offish, you mean that they behave in a formal and rather unfriendly way.
  • stiff-necked — having a stiff neck; having torticollis.
  • student file — a file containing information about each student in a school, college, etc, such as demographic information and information about grades, etc
  • subinfeudate — to grant (lands) by subinfeudation
  • subjectified — to make subjective.
  • sudoriferous — bearing or secreting sweat.
  • sulfadiazine — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 1 0 H 1 0 N 4 O 2 S, used chiefly in the treatment of urinary tract infections, meningitis, and malaria.
  • sulfarsenide — any compound containing an arsenide and a sulfide.
  • surfboarding — a long, narrow board on which a person stands or lies prone in surfboarding.
  • swift-footed — swift in running.
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