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14-letter words containing s, u, c, e, f

  • insufficiently — not sufficient; lacking in what is necessary or required: an insufficient answer.
  • life assurance — insurance: pays if holder dies
  • life insurance — insurance providing for payment of a sum of money to a named beneficiary upon the death of the policyholder or to the policyholder if still living after reaching a specified age.
  • minucius felix — Marcus, Roman writer of the 2nd century a.d. whose dialogue Octavius is the earliest known work of Latin-Christian literature.
  • music festival — a festival, often an annual event, at which a lot of different performers play
  • neglectfulness — The characteristic of being neglectful.
  • non-infectious — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.
  • nonfluorescent — possessing the property of fluorescence; exhibiting fluorescence.
  • nuclear fusion — fusion (def 4).
  • on the surface — to all appearances
  • pasteur effect — the inhibiting of fermentation by oxygen.
  • perfect square — a rational number that is equal to the square of another rational number.
  • pleasure craft — A pleasure craft is the same as a pleasure boat.
  • porcupine fish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
  • potts-fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
  • respectfulness — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
  • robusta coffee — a coffee tree, Coffea canephora, native to western tropical Africa and cultivated in warm regions of the Old World.
  • sacchariferous — containing or yielding sugar.
  • sacrifice bunt — a bunt made by the batter so that a base runner is advanced while the batter is put out
  • safety circuit — a type of electronic circuit that prevents malfunction by stopping the flow of current or sounding an alert.
  • safety curtain — a sheet of asbestos or other fireproof material that can be lowered just inside the proscenium arch in case of fire, sealing off the backstage area from the auditorium.
  • saxifragaceous — belonging to the plant family Saxifragaceae.
  • scotch furnace — ore hearth.
  • self-actualize — to undergo self-actualization.
  • self-actuating — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
  • self-assurance — self-confidence.
  • self-communion — (often initial capital letter). Also called Holy Communion. Ecclesiastical. the act of receiving the Eucharistic elements. the elements of the Eucharist. the celebration of the Eucharist. the antiphon sung at a Eucharistic service.
  • self-composure — calmness and self-possession
  • self-conscious — excessively aware of being observed by others.
  • self-exclusion — an act or instance of excluding.
  • self-executing — going into effect immediately without the need of supplementary legislation: a self-executing treaty.
  • self-inclusive — including oneself or itself.
  • self-induction — the process by which an electromotive force is induced in a circuit by a varying current in that circuit.
  • self-insurance — insurance of one's property or interests against possible loss by the establishing of a special fund for the purpose instead of seeking coverage with an underwriter.
  • self-publicist — someone who is skilled at promoting him or herself
  • sheep's fescue — a temperate perennial tufted grass, Festuca ovina, with narrow inwardly rolled leaves
  • soft sculpture — sculpture principally in vinyl, canvas, or other flexible material reproducing objects of characteristically rigid construction, as an electric fan, a typewriter, a set of drums, or a bathtub, in forms having a malleable texture and a liquescent, somewhat deflated appearance.
  • state function — a thermodynamic quantity that has definite values for given states of a system, such as entropy, enthalpy, free energy, etc
  • stomachfulness — the quality of being stomachful
  • successfulness — achieving or having achieved success.
  • sulfuric ether — ether (def 1).
  • superconfident — very or extremely confident, overly confident
  • 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.
  • 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
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