| angelfish | (noun) sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do | Synonyms: angel shark, monkfish, Squatina squatina |
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| (noun) a butterfly fish of the genus Pomacanthus | - |
| (noun) deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters | Synonyms: Chaetodipterus faber, spadefish |
| barrelfish | (noun) blackish fish of New England waters | Synonyms: black rudderfish, Hyperglyphe perciformis |
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| barrelful | (noun) the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold | Synonyms: barrel |
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| belfry | (noun) a room (often at the top of a tower) where bells are hung | - |
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| (noun) a bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building | Synonyms: campanile |
| bookshelf | (noun) a shelf on which to keep books | - |
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| damselfish | (noun) small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs | Synonyms: demoiselle |
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| damselfly | (noun) slender non-stinging insect similar to but smaller than the dragonfly but having wings folded when at rest | - |
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| delf | (noun) an excavation; usually a quarry or mine | - |
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| delft | (noun) a style of glazed earthenware; usually white with blue decoration | - |
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| elf | (noun) (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous | Synonyms: brownie, gremlin, hob, imp, pixie, pixy |
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| elfin | (adjective) relating to or made or done by or as if by an elf | - |
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| (adjective) usually good-naturedly mischievous | Synonyms: elfish, elvish |
| (adjective) small and delicate | Synonyms: elflike |
| (adjective) suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness | Synonyms: fey |
| elfish | (adjective) usually good-naturedly mischievous | Synonyms: elfin, elvish |
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| elflike | (adjective) small and delicate | Synonyms: elfin |
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| nelfinavir | (noun) a protease inhibitor (trade name Viracept) used in treating HIV usually in combination with other drugs | Synonyms: Viracept |
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| pelf | (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
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| self | (adjective) (used as a combining form) relating to--of or by or to or from or for--the self | - |
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| (noun) your consciousness of your own identity | Synonyms: ego |
| (noun) a person considered as a unique individual | - |
| selfish | (adjective) concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others | Synonyms: egocentric, egoistic, egoistical, self-centered, self-centred, self-seeking, self-serving |
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| selfishly | (adverb) in an egotistical manner | Synonyms: egotistically |
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| selfishness | (noun) stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others | - |
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| selfless | (adjective) showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: altruistic |
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| selflessly | (adverb) in an altruistic manner | Synonyms: altruistically |
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| selflessness | (noun) acting with less concern for yourself than for the success of the joint activity | Synonyms: self-sacrifice |
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| (noun) the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: altruism |
| selfsame | (adjective) being the exact same one; not any other: | Synonyms: identical, very |
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| selfsameness | (noun) the quality of being identical with itself | - |
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| selfshot | (adjective) (of a video) recorded by the performers | - |
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| shelf | (noun) a support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects | - |
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| (noun) a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water | Synonyms: ledge |
| shelfful | (noun) the amount that a shelf will hold | - |
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| shelflike | (adjective) resembling a shelf (or considered to resemble a shelf) | - |
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| shelfy | (adjective) full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals | Synonyms: reefy, shelvy, shoaly |
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| shovelful | (noun) the quantity a shovel can hold | Synonyms: shovel, spadeful |
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| squirrelfish | (noun) very small, brightly colored (especially red) nocturnal fishes of shallow waters or tropical reefs; they make sounds like a squirrel's bark | - |
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| (noun) similar to sea bream; small spiny-finned fish found in bays along the southeastern coast of the United States | Synonyms: Lagodon rhomboides, pinfish, sailor's-choice |
| telfer | (noun) one of the conveyances (or cars) in a telpherage | Synonyms: telpher |
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| telferage | (noun) a transportation system in which cars (telphers) are suspended from cables and operated on electricity | Synonyms: telpherage |
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| twelfth | (adjective) coming next after the eleventh and just before the thirteenth in position | Synonyms: 12th |
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| (noun) one part in twelve equal parts | Synonyms: duodecimal, one-twelfth, twelfth part |
| (noun) position 12 in a countable series of things | - |
| unselfconscious | (adjective) not self-conscious | - |
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| unselfconsciously | (adverb) in a comfortable unselfconscious manner | - |
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| unselfconsciousness | (noun) the quality of being not self-conscious; unawareness of yourself or of others' views of yourself | - |
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| unselfish | (adjective) disregarding your own advantages and welfare over those of others | - |
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| (adjective) not greedy | - |
| unselfishly | (adverb) in an unselfish manner | - |
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| unselfishness | (noun) acting generously | Synonyms: generosity |
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| (noun) the quality of not putting yourself first but being willing to give your time or money or effort etc. for others | - |
| welfare | (noun) governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need | Synonyms: public assistance, social welfare |
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| (noun) something that aids or promotes well-being | Synonyms: benefit |
| (noun) a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous | Synonyms: eudaemonia, eudaimonia, upbeat, well-being, wellbeing |
| welfarist | (adjective) of or relating to a welfare state | Synonyms: welfare-statist |
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