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12-letter words containing s, o, f, t, l

  • satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • self-conceit — an excessively favorable opinion of oneself, one's abilities, etc.; vanity.
  • self-concept — the idea or mental image one has of oneself and one's strengths, weaknesses, status, etc.; self-image.
  • self-content — satisfaction with oneself; self-complacency.
  • self-control — control or restraint of oneself or one's actions, feelings, etc.
  • self-devoted — intense devotion of oneself to an activity or to a field or profession, as art or science.
  • self-storage — noting or pertaining to a warehouse or other facility that rents units to people for storing personal possessions.
  • self-support — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
  • self-to-self — autologous.
  • self-torment — an act or instance of tormenting oneself, as with worry or guilt.
  • self-torture — the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
  • 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.
  • self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
  • 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.
  • silk factory — plant where silk fabric is produced
  • silver frost — glaze (def 17).
  • sleep it off — to rid oneself of the effects of some excess, overindulgence, etc., specif. of the aftereffects of drinking much alcoholic liquor, by sleeping
  • slipper foot — an elongated pad foot.
  • slothfulness — sluggardly; indolent; lazy.
  • slumpflation — a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation
  • small-format — A small-format store is one in which a large retail chain offers only part of their range in a smaller store.
  • soft landing — space vehicle
  • soft release — a means of gradually accustoming wild animals to a new environment before releasing them into it
  • soft-shelled — Also, soft-shelled. having a soft, flexible, or fragile shell, as a crab that has recently molted.
  • softheadedly — in a soft-headed manner
  • solifluction — creep (def 22a).
  • solway firth — an arm of the Irish Sea between SW Scotland and NW England. 38 miles (61 km) long.
  • spiflication — rough treatment
  • stalactiform — resembling or shaped like a stalactite.
  • state flower — a flower chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
  • stelliferous — having or abounding with stars.
  • stormfulness — the quality or state of being stormful
  • strobiliform — shaped as a strobilus
  • subfactorial — the number of ways a group of objects can be arranged so that none of the objects are in their original or correct place
  • suit oneself — a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together.
  • superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
  • telesoftware — the transmission of computer programs on a teletext system
  • the likes of — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
  • thiosulfuric — of or derived from thiosulfuric acid.
  • thousandfold — having a thousand elements or parts.
  • to hold fast — If you hold something fast, you hold it tightly and firmly. If something is stuck fast, it is stuck very firmly and cannot move.
  • to lose face — If you lose face, you do something which makes you appear weak and makes people respect or admire you less. If you do something in order to save face, you do it in order to avoid appearing weak and losing people's respect or admiration.
  • to play safe — If you play safe or play it safe, you do not take any risks.
  • tonic sol-fa — a system of singing characterized by emphasis upon tonality or key relationship, in which tones are indicated by the initial letters of the syllables of the sol-fa system rather than by conventional staff notation.
  • trace fossil — a fossilized track, trail, burrow, boring, or other structure in sedimentary rock that records the presence or behavior of the organism that made it.
  • tubuliferous — bearing or made up of tubules.
  • west suffolk — a former administrative division of Suffolk, in E England.
  • wolf whistle — a wolf call made by whistling, often characterized by two sliding sounds, a peal up to a higher note and then one up to a lower note and down.
  • wolf-whistle — If someone wolf-whistles, they make a whistling sound with a short rising note and a longer falling note. Some men wolf-whistle at a woman to show that they think she is attractive, and some women find this offensive.
  • worst of all — You say worst of all to indicate that what you are about to mention is the most unpleasant or has the most disadvantages out of all the things you are mentioning.
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