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13-letter words containing y, f

  • safety helmet — protective hard hat
  • safety island — an area provided for the safety of pedestrians from vehicular traffic, as between lanes on a busy street or highway.
  • safety lintel — an auxiliary lintel concealed behind a visible lintel, arch, etc.
  • safety margin — something required to ensure safety
  • safety screen — a screen covering a work area and protecting people and equipment from fire and other danger
  • sanctifyingly — in a sanctifying manner
  • sandfly fever — a usually mild viral disease occurring in hot, dry areas, characterized by fever, eye pain, and sometimes a rash, transmitted by sandflies of the genus Phlebotomus.
  • scalariformly — in a scalariform or ladder-like manner
  • scientificity — the application of scientific methods and principles
  • screwworm fly — the adult screwworm.
  • sea butterfly — any member of the gastropod order Pteropoda, shelled marine mollusks so called for their ability to swim using winglike extensions of the foot.
  • security firm — a firm which provides guards for buildings, and other security services and personnel
  • self-advocacy — the practice of having mentally handicapped people speak for themselves and control their own affairs, rather than having nonhandicapped people automatically assume responsibility for them
  • self-analysis — the application of psychoanalytic techniques and theories to an analysis of one's own personality and behavior, especially without the aid of a psychiatrist or other trained person.
  • self-analyzed — having undergone self-analysis.
  • self-assembly — Self-assembly is used to refer to furniture and other goods that you buy in parts and that you have to put together yourself.
  • self-betrayal — to deliver or expose to an enemy by treachery or disloyalty: Benedict Arnold betrayed his country.
  • self-deifying — to make a god of; exalt to the rank of a deity; personify as a deity: to deify a beloved king.
  • self-employed — earning one's living directly from one's own profession or business, as a freelance writer or artist, rather than as an employee earning salary or commission from another.
  • self-emptying — containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle.
  • self-flattery — praise and exaggeration of one's own achievements coupled with a denial or glossing over of one's faults or failings; self-congratulation.
  • self-hypnosis — autohypnosis.
  • self-identify — identify (defs 7, 8): to self-identify as gay; to self-identify with others in the same situation.
  • self-identity — the identity or consciousness of identity of a thing with itself.
  • self-immunity — the state of being immune from or insusceptible to a particular disease or the like.
  • self-security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
  • send away for — order by post
  • seventy-fifth — next after the seventy-fourth; being the ordinal number for 75.
  • seventy-first — next after the seventieth; being the ordinal number for 71.
  • shy away from — If you shy away from doing something, you avoid doing it, often because you are afraid or not confident enough.
  • significantly — important; of consequence.
  • significatory — serving to signify
  • single-family — designed or suitable for one family of average size: single-family homes.
  • soft currency — econ: fluctuating value
  • softly-softly — A softly-softly approach to something is cautious and patient and avoids direct action or force.
  • spiny dogfish — any of several dogfish sharks of the genus Squalus, having a spine in front of each of the two dorsal fins, especially S. acanthias, inhabiting Atlantic coastal waters.
  • spruce sawfly — any of several sawflies of the family Diprionidae, especially Diprion hercyniae (European spruce sawfly) the larvae of which feed on the foliage of spruce.
  • spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
  • stanley falls — series of seven cataracts of the upper Congo River, just south of Kisangani
  • stanley knife — A Stanley knife is a very sharp knife that is used to cut materials such as carpet and paper. It consists of a small blade fixed in the end of a handle.
  • state of play — current situation
  • storax family — the plant family Styracaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having simple, alternate leaves, clusters of bell-shaped white flowers, and fleshy or dry fruit, and including the silver bell, snowbell, and storax.
  • strong safety — the defensive back assigned to cover the area across from the strong side of the opponent's offensive line and primarily responsible for defending against pass plays.
  • stuffed dummy — someone who says or does nothing and is generally inanimate and characterless
  • stultifyingly — to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous.
  • subjectifying — to make subjective.
  • suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
  • sugar factory — a factory which refines sugar from organic sources into a form that can be used in cooking etc
  • sulfapyridine — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 1 1 H 1 1 N 3 O 2 S, formerly used for infections caused by pneumococci, now used primarily for a particular dermatitis.
  • superficially — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
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