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15-letter words containing sel

  • beat oneself up — to reproach oneself
  • bessel function — one of several transcendental functions, usually represented as power series, that are solutions to a group of related differential equations.
  • brussels carpet — a worsted carpet with a heavy pile formed by uncut loops of wool on a linen warp
  • brussels sprout — Brussels sprouts are vegetables that look like tiny cabbages.
  • camp counsellor — an adult supervisor assigned to a group of campers at a summer camp
  • chamber counsel — a counsel who advises in private and does not plead in court
  • come to oneself — to recover one's senses
  • concern oneself — to busy oneself (with, about, over, in something); take an interest
  • crimson rosella — an Australian parrot, Platycercus elegans, often kept as a cage bird
  • debt counsellor — a person who advises people who are in debt on how to deal with their debt and get out of it
  • declare oneself — to state strongly one's opinion
  • defence counsel — a barrister or group of barristers responsible for defending someone on trial
  • defenselessness — The characteristic of being defenseless; vulnerability.
  • diesel-electric — having an electric motor powered directly by an electric generator or by batteries charged by the generator, with the generator being driven by a diesel engine: a diesel-electric locomotive.
  • do oneself well — to achieve success for oneself
  • draw oneself up — to assume a straighter posture; stand or sit straight
  • explain oneself — to make clear what one means
  • express oneself — to communicate one's thoughts or ideas
  • flatter oneself — to hold the self-satisfying or self-deluding belief (that)
  • fulfill oneself — to realize completely one's ambitions, potentialities, etc.
  • full of oneself — full of pride or conceit; egoistic
  • fuller's teasel — a Eurasian teasel plant, Dipsacus fullonum, whose prickly flower heads are used for raising the nap on woollen cloth
  • help oneself to — to serve or provide oneself with (food, etc.)
  • hovering vessel — a vessel in territorial waters apparently collaborating in illicit operations.
  • inertia selling — (in Britain) the illegal practice of sending unrequested goods to householders followed by a bill for the price of the goods if they do not return them
  • keep to oneself — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
  • lay oneself out — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
  • leading counsel — the more senior of two counsels
  • let yourself go — If you let yourself go, you relax and behave much more freely than usual.
  • nonself-antigen — any of the antigens present in an individual that originate outside the body (contrasted with self-antigen).
  • not be yourself — If you say that you are not yourself, you mean you are not feeling well.
  • please yourself — You say 'please yourself' to indicate in a rather rude way that you do not mind or care whether the person you are talking to does a particular thing or not.
  • present oneself — to appear, esp at a specific time and place
  • pressure vessel — a vessel designed for containing substances, reactions, etc, at pressures above atmospheric pressure
  • purposelessness — having no purpose or apparent meaning.
  • put oneself out — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
  • pyramid selling — Pyramid selling is a method of selling in which one person buys a supply of a particular product direct from the manufacturer and then sells it to a number of other people at an increased price. These people sell it on to others in a similar way, but eventually the final buyers are only able to sell the product for less than they paid for it.
  • queen's counsel — King's Counsel.
  • read oneself in — to assume possession of a benefice by publicly reading the Thirty-nine Articles
  • relieve oneself — to ease or alleviate (pain, distress, anxiety, need, etc.).
  • russell's attic — (mathematics)   An imaginary room containing countably many pairs of shoes (i.e. a pair for each natural number), and countably many pairs of socks. How many shoes are there? Answer: countably many (map the left shoes to even numbers and the right shoes to odd numbers, say). How many socks are there? Also countably many, we want to say, but we can't prove it without the Axiom of Choice, because in each pair, the socks are indistinguishable (there's no such thing as a left sock). Although for any single pair it is easy to select one, we cannot specify a general method for doing this.
  • russell's viper — a large venomous snake, Vipera russelli, common in India and southeastern Asia, having three rows of large, black-edged brown spots on a light-brown body.
  • seleucia pieria — an ancient port in Syria, on the River Orontes: the port of Antioch, of military importance during the wars between the Ptolemies and Seleucids; largely destroyed by earthquake in 526; site of present-day Samandaǧ (Turkey)
  • self fulfilment — the act or fact of fulfilling one's ambitions, desires, etc., through one's own efforts.
  • self perception — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
  • self-abhorrence — a feeling of extreme repugnance or aversion; utter loathing; abomination.
  • self-abnegation — self-denial or self-sacrifice.
  • self-absorption — preoccupation with oneself or one's own affairs.
  • self-acceptance — the act of taking or receiving something offered.
  • self-accusation — a charge of wrongdoing; imputation of guilt or blame.

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