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16-letter words containing a, n, t, i, f

  • self-lubrication — the process of becoming lubricated without external factors
  • self-maintenance — the act of maintaining: the maintenance of proper oral hygiene.
  • self-observation — an act or instance of noticing or perceiving.
  • self-opinionated — conceited; having an inordinately high regard for oneself, one's own opinions, views, etc.
  • self-pollination — the transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of the same flower, another flower on the same plant, or the flower of a plant of the same clone.
  • self-preparation — a proceeding, measure, or provision by which one prepares for something: preparations for a journey.
  • self-propagating — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
  • self-realization — the fulfillment of one's potential.
  • self-referential — If you describe something such as a book or film as self-referential, you mean that it is concerned with things such as its own composition or with other similar books or films.
  • self-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
  • self-replicating — reproducing itself by its own power or inherent nature: self-replicating organisms.
  • self-stimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • self-subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
  • self-sustainment — self-supporting.
  • self-terminating — to bring to an end; put an end to: to terminate a contract.
  • self-vindicating — to clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or the like: to vindicate someone's honor.
  • self-vindication — the act of vindicating.
  • shifting spanner — an adjustable spanner
  • shortfin corvina — See under corvina.
  • slap in the face — smack on the cheek
  • 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
  • soft in the head — stupid or foolish
  • south plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
  • spreading factor — a substance, as hyaluronidase, that promotes the diffusion of a material through body tissues
  • staffing officer — someone who recruits, hires, and ensures the interests of staff and employees in an organization
  • standoff missile — a missile capable of striking a distant target after launch by an aircraft outside the range of missile defences
  • stationary front — a front between warm and cold air masses that is moving very slowly or not at all.
  • stephen f austin — Alfred, 1835–1913, English poet: poet laureate 1896–1913.
  • 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.
  • studentification — the renting of particular accommodation exclusively to students
  • subjectification — to make subjective.
  • superfecundation — the fertilization of two or more ova discharged at the same ovulation by successive acts of sexual intercourse.
  • superunification — a theory intended to describe the electromagnetic force, the strong force, the weak force, and gravity as a single, unified force.
  • 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.
  • surface-printing — planography.
  • tanagra figurine — a small terra-cotta statuette produced from the late 4th to the 3rd century b.c. in Tanagra, Boeotia, and found chiefly in tombs.
  • tariff agreement — an agreement between countries or geographical areas relating to taxes levied by governments on imports or occasionally exports for purposes of protection, support of the balance of payments, or the raising of revenue
  • the arabian gulf — the arm of the Arabian Sea between SW Iran and Arabia; important for the oilfields on its shores
  • the fact remains — You say the fact remains that something is the case when you want to emphasize that the situation must be accepted.
  • theatre-francais — Comédie Française.
  • throat infection — an infection or inflammation of the throat or pharynx
  • to lift a finger — If you say that a person does not lift a finger or raise a finger to do something, especially to help someone, you are critical of them because they do nothing.
  • toing and froing — going back and forth
  • 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.
  • train of thought — sequence of ideas
  • training officer — a person whose job is to teach people the skills they need for a particular field or profession
  • trans-fatty acid — a polyunsaturated fatty acid that has been converted from the cis-form by hydrogenation: used in the manufacture of margarine
  • 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.
  • transfer pricing — the setting of a price for the transfer of raw materials, components, products, or services between the trading units of a large organization
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