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13-letter words containing l, a, f, e, s, c

  • kaffeeklatsch — coffee klatsch.
  • let's face it — You use the expression 'let's face it' when you are stating a fact or making a comment about something which you think the person you are talking to may find unpleasant or be unwilling to admit.
  • life is cheap — You use life is cheap or life has become cheap to refer to a situation in which nobody cares that large numbers of people are dying.
  • liquefacients — Plural form of liquefacient.
  • liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
  • lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
  • misclassified — to arrange or organize by classes; order according to class.
  • nonclassified — arranged or distributed in classes or according to class: We plan to review all the classified specimens in the laboratory.
  • olfactometers — Plural form of olfactometer.
  • pact of steel — a military alliance concluded between Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy on May 22, 1939, committing each to assist the other in the event of war with another power and pledging that neither would seek a separate peace or armistice.
  • physical file — (file system)   A low-level view of the physical characteristics of a file, such as its location on a disk or its physical structure, for example, whether indexed or sequential.
  • place of arms — an area in a fortress or a fortified town where troops could assemble for defense.
  • ruled surface — a surface that can be generated by a straight line, as a cylinder or cone.
  • sacrifice fly — a fly ball when there are fewer than two players out that enables a base runner, usually at third base, to score after the ball is caught.
  • scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
  • scarlet fever — a contagious febrile disease caused by streptococci and characterized by a scarlet eruption.
  • scathefulness — the state or quality of being harmful or injurious
  • schutzstaffel — an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force. Abbreviation: SS.
  • 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-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
  • self-chastise — to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
  • self-cleaning — an act or instance of making clean: Give the house a good cleaning.
  • self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
  • self-critical — capable of criticizing oneself objectively.
  • self-declared — proclaiming oneself to be
  • self-educated — educated by one's own efforts, especially without formal instruction.
  • self-effacing — the act or fact of keeping oneself in the background, as in humility.
  • self-medicate — to medicate oneself without consulting a physician
  • self-reliance — reliance on oneself or one's own powers, resources, etc.
  • self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
  • semi-official — having some degree of official authority.
  • shelf-stacker — a person whose job is to fill the shelves and displays in a supermarket or other shop with goods for sale
  • sidewalk café — a café that has seats outside on the sidewalk
  • slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
  • solar furnace — a furnace using sunlight concentrated by concave mirrors as the direct source of heat.
  • special offer — bargain
  • special staff — all staff officers assigned to headquarters of a division or higher unit who are not members of the general staff or personal staff.
  • 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.
  • staff college — a training centre for executive military personnel
  • superficially — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • surface plate — Machinery. a flat plate used by machinists for testing surfaces that are to be made perfectly flat.
  • surface-layer — the thin layer of air adjacent to the earth's surface, usually considered to be less than 300 feet (91 meters) high.
  • telefacsimile — facsimile (def 2).
  • unspecifiable — not able to be specified
  • unsuperficial — external or outward: a superficial resemblance.
  • visual effect — Usually, visual effects. a special effect that is added to a film or video in post-production, as computer-generated imagery. Abbreviation: VFX.
  • watch oneself — to be careful, cautious, or discreet
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