<B>self-disciplined, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having self-discipline. </DL>
<A NAME="selfdisclosure">
<B>self-disclosure, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> disclosure of oneself; self-revelation. </DL>
<A NAME="selfdiscontented">
<B>self-discontented, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> discontented with or over oneself. </DL>
<A NAME="selfdiscovery">
<B>self-discovery, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> discovery of one's identity, position in society, or the like. </DL>
<A NAME="selfdisgust">
<B>self-disgust, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> disgust with oneself; self-hatred. <BR> <I>Ex. Some of their self-disgust may stem from not having been rebellious enough (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="selfdisparagement">
<B>self-disparagement, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> disparagement of oneself. </DL>
<A NAME="selfdissatisfaction">
<B>self-dissatisfaction, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> dissatisfaction with or over oneself. </DL>
<A NAME="selfdistrust">
<B>self-distrust, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> distrust of oneself; lack of confidence in one's own abilities. </DL>
<A NAME="selfdistrustful">
<B>self-distrustful, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> distrustful of oneself or one's own abilities. </DL>
<A NAME="selfdoubt">
<B>self-doubt, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> doubt of oneself; doubt of one's own abilities, worth, decisions, motives, or the like. </DL>
<A NAME="selfdoubting">
<B>self-doubting, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> characterized by self-doubt. </DL>
<A NAME="selfdramatization">
<B>self-dramatization, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> dramatization of oneself. </DL>
<B>self-drive car,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) a car for rent, driven by the renter. <BR> <I>Ex. Now, you can hire a ... self-drive car and leave it at your destination at no extra charge (Sunday Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="selfdriven">
<B>self-driven, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> driven by itself; automatic. </DL>
<A NAME="selfeducated">
<B>self-educated, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> self-taught; educated by one's own efforts. </DL>
<A NAME="selfeducation">
<B>self-education, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> education by or through one's own efforts. </DL>
<A NAME="selfeffacement">
<B>self-effacement, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act or habit of modestly keeping oneself in the background. <BR> <I>Ex. Self-effacement in a generation of self-salesmanship ... (Hugh R. Orr).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="selfeffacing">
<B>self-effacing, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> effacing oneself; keeping oneself in the background. adv. <B>self-effacingly.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="selfelected">
<B>self-elected, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>elected by oneself; self-appointed. <DD><B> 2. </B>(of a body) elected by its members. <BR> <I>Ex. Self-elected Town Councils (Macaulay).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="selfemployed">
<B>self-employed, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> earning one's livelihood from one's own business or by offering one's services to the public; not employed by others; working for oneself. <BR> <I>Ex. The Senate Finance Committee decided to make social security voluntary for physicians, dentists, lawyers, farmers, and other self-employed persons (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="selfemployment">
<B>self-employment, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the condition of being self-employed. <BR> <I>Ex. After a spell of self-employment he applied for jobs in Wolverhampton (London Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="selfenamored">
<B>self-enamored, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> enamored of or over oneself. </DL>
<A NAME="selfenergizing">
<B>self-energizing, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> energizing oneself or itself; generating energy or power automatically. <BR> <I>Ex. a self-energizing dynamo.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="selfenforcing">
<B>self-enforcing, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> enforcing by oneself or itself. </DL>
<A NAME="selfesteem">
<B>self-esteem, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the thinking well of oneself; self-respect. <DD><B> 2. </B>the thinking too well of oneself; conceit. </DL>
<A NAME="selfevaluation">
<B>self-evaluation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> evaluation of oneself. </DL>
<A NAME="selfevidence">
<B>self-evidence, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the quality or condition of being self-evident. <BR> <I>Ex. the self-evidence of natural law.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>something that is self-evident. <BR> <I>Ex. The author shows enormous erudition, but much of it is devoted to expressing self-evidences (Manchester Guardian Weekly).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="selfevident">
<B>self-evident, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> evident by itself; needing no proof; axiomatic. <BR> <I>Ex. We hold these truths to be self-evident (Declaration of Independence). The self-evident fact that growth is the result of eating and drinking ... (Benjamin Jowett).</I> adv. <B>self-evidently.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="selfexaltation">
<B>self-exaltation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> exaltation of oneself; self-glorification. </DL>
<A NAME="selfexamination">
<B>self-examination, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an examination into one's own state, conduct, motives, and the like. </DL>
<A NAME="selfexcitation">
<B>self-excitation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the excitation of the field of a generator by currents taken from its own armature. </DL>
<A NAME="selfexcited">
<B>self-excited, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (of a generator) excited by the current of its own armature. </DL>
<A NAME="selfexciting">
<B>self-exciting, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> capable of self-excitation. <BR> <I>Ex. a self-exciting dynamo.</I> </DL>
<B>self-executing, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> becoming effective automatically under circumstances or at a time as specified, and needing no legislation to enforce it. <BR> <I>Ex. a self-executing clause in a treaty or contract.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="selfexile">
<B>self-exile, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>voluntary exile. <BR> <I>Ex. to live in self-exile.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a self-exiled person. </DL>
<A NAME="selfexiled">
<B>self-exiled, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> voluntarily exiled; absent by choice from one's native land. </DL>
<A NAME="selfexistence">
<B>self-existence, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the property or fact of being self-existent. </DL>
<A NAME="selfexistent">
<B>self-existent, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>existing independently of any other cause. <DD><B> 2. </B>having an independent existence. </DL>
<B>self-explanatory, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> explaining itself; that needs no explanation; obvious. </DL>
<A NAME="selfexploration">
<B>self-exploration, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> exploration of one's own motives or actions; self-examination. </DL>
<A NAME="selfexposure">
<B>self-exposure, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> exposure of oneself. </DL>
<A NAME="selfexpression">
<B>self-expression, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the expression of one's personality. </DL>
<A NAME="selfexpressive">
<B>self-expressive, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> expressive of one's personality. <BR> <I>Ex. a self-expressive art created by the imagination, tastes, and desires of the artist (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="selffeed">
<B>self-feed, </B>transitive verb, <B>-fed,</B> <B>-feeding.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Agriculture.) to supply (animals) with enough food so that they may eat whenever and as much as they want to. </DL>
<A NAME="selffeeder">
<B>self-feeder, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a machine that feeds itself automatically, such as a printing press. <DD><B> 2. </B>a machine that supplies food to animals automatically. </DL>
<A NAME="selffeeding">
<B>self-feeding, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that feeds itself automatically. <BR> <I>Ex. a self-feeding press.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="selffeeling">
<B>self-feeling, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Psychology.) selfish feeling or emotion. </DL>
<A NAME="selffertile">
<B>self-fertile, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany.) capable of self-fertilization. </DL>
<A NAME="selffertility">
<B>self-fertility, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany.) the ability to fertilize itself. </DL>
<A NAME="selffertilization">
<B>self-fertilization, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Botany.) the fertilization of the ovules of a flower by pollen from the same flower; autogamy. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Zoology.) the fertilization of two gametes from the same animal among some hermaphrodites. </DL>
<A NAME="selffertilized">
<B>self-fertilized, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> fertilized by its own pollen; autogamous. <BR> <I>Ex. a self-fertilized flower.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="selffertilizing">
<B>self-fertilizing, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>fertilizing by the pollen of its own flowers alone. <BR> <I>Ex. Tobacco is normally a self-fertilizing species (Science News).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>breeding from closely related individuals; inbreeding. <BR> <I>Ex. populations of self-fertilizing organisms.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="selffigured">
<B>self-figured, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> woven with figures in its own color. <BR> <I>Ex. a self-figured fabric.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="selffiller">
<B>self-filler, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various types of fountain pen that can be filled by operating some mechanism while the lower part of the pen is dipped in ink. </DL>
<A NAME="selffilling">
<B>self-filling, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can fill itself. </DL>
<A NAME="selffinanced">
<B>self-financed, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> financed by oneself or itself. <BR> <I>Ex. a self-financed project or investment.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="selfflagellation">
<B>self-flagellation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> flagellation of oneself; punishment of oneself. </DL>
<A NAME="selfflattering">
<B>self-flattering, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> too favorable to oneself; involving too high an idea of one's own qualities or achievements. </DL>
<A NAME="selfflattery">
<B>self-flattery, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> flattery of oneself; indulgence in self-flattering ideas. <BR> <I>Ex. sentimental self-flattery.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="selfforgetful">
<B>self-forgetful, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> forgetful of oneself or one's own individuality; showing no thought of one's own advantage or interest. adv. <B>self-forgetfully.</B> noun <B>self-forgetfulness.</B> </DL>
