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16-letter words containing s, r, f, l, i

  • self-sovereignty — the quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority.
  • self-suppression — Psychoanalysis. conscious inhibition of an impulse.
  • self-terminating — to bring to an end; put an end to: to terminate a contract.
  • semiprofessional — actively engaged in some field or sport for pay but on a part-time basis: semiprofessional baseball players.
  • service families — families which have a member serving in the armed forces
  • shoulder surfing — a form of credit-card fraud in which the perpetrator stands behind and looks over the shoulder of the victim as he or she withdraws money from an automated teller machine, memorizes the card details, and later steals the card
  • silky flycatcher — any of several passerine birds of the family Ptilogonatidae, of the southwestern U.S. to Panama, related to the waxwings.
  • sliding friction — frictional resistance to relative movement of surfaces on loaded contact
  • small/fine print — The small print or the fine print of something such as an advertisement or a contract consists of the technical details and legal conditions, which are often printed in much smaller letters than the rest of the text.
  • smelting furnace — an industrial oven used to heat ore in order to extract metal
  • soapberry family — the plant family Sapindaceae, characterized by chiefly tropical trees, shrubs, or herbaceous vines having compound leaves, clustered flowers, and berrylike, fleshy, or capsular fruit, and including the balloon vine, golden rain tree, litchi, and soapberry.
  • software library — a collection of programs that are used to develop software
  • sole beneficiary — the only beneficiary
  • speak for itself — be self-evident
  • spring snowflake — a European amaryllidaceous plant, Leucojum vernum, with white nodding bell-shaped flowers
  • stonecrop family — the plant family Crassulaceae, characterized by succulent herbaceous plants and shrubs with simple, fleshy leaves, clusters of small flowers, and dry, dehiscent fruit, and including hen-and-chickens, houseleek, kalanchoe, live-forever, orpine, sedum, and stonecrop.
  • sulfanilyl group — the para form of the group C 6 H 6 NO 2 S–, derived from sulfanilic acid.
  • sulfarsphenamine — a yellow, water-soluble, arsenic-containing powder, C 1 4 H 1 4 As 2 N 2 Na 2 O 8 S 2 , formerly used in the treatment of syphilis.
  • sulfocarbanilide — thiocarbanilide.
  • superficialities — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • surface integral — the limit, as the norm of the partition of a given surface into sections of area approaches zero, of the sum of the product of the areas times the value of a given function of three variables at some point on each section.
  • the first couple — the US president and their spouse
  • the first family — a President's family
  • the silver ferns — the women's international netball team of New Zealand
  • tower of silence — a circular stone platform, typically 30 feet (9.1 meter) in height, on which the Parsees of India leave their dead to be devoured by vultures.
  • trailing fuchsia — a shrub, Fuchsia procumbens, of the evening primrose family, native to New Zealand, having long-stalked leaves and drooping, orange-and-purple flowers, used in hanging baskets.
  • transfer molding — a method of molding thermosetting plastic in which the plastic enters a closed mold from an adjoining chamber in which it has been softened.
  • transformational — the act or process of transforming.
  • twin-lens reflex — See under reflex camera. Abbreviation: TLR.
  • unfair dismissal — wrongful firing from a job
  • utility software — system software that manages and optimizes the performance of hardware
  • velcro fastening — a fastening made of Velcro
  • visual interface — (tool, text)   (vi) /V-I/, /vi:/, *never* /siks/ A screen editor crufted together by Bill Joy for an early BSD release. vi became the de facto standard Unix editor and a nearly undisputed hacker favourite outside of MIT until the rise of Emacs after about 1984. It tends to frustrate new users no end, as it will neither take commands while expecting input text nor vice versa, and the default setup provides no indication of which mode the editor is in (one correspondent accordingly reports that he has often heard the editor's name pronounced /vi:l/). Nevertheless it is still widely used (about half the respondents in a 1991 Usenet poll preferred it), and even some Emacs fans resort to it as a mail editor and for small editing jobs (mainly because it starts up faster than the bulkier versions of Emacs). See holy wars.
  • welfare benefits — financial assistance; social security payment
  • welfare services — services that provide help with people's living conditions and financial problems
  • well-diversified — distinguished by various forms or by a variety of objects: diversified activity.
  • west springfield — a city in SW Massachusetts, near Springfield.
  • winchester rifle — a type of magazine rifle, first made in about 1866.
  • windfall profits — Windfall profits are excessive profits with a non-business cause such as a natural disaster.
  • world federalism — federalism on a worldwide level.
  • world federalist — a promoter or supporter of world federalism.
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