self-initiated
adjective
self-ini·ti·at·ed ˌself-i-ˈni-shē-ˌā-təd 
: caused or facilitated to begin by oneself : initiated by oneself
self-initiated learning/activities
According to police, the charges stemmed from a self-initiated investigation by the department's internal affairs division.
Sandra Gomez-Aceves
Sandra Gomez-Aceves
Word History
First Known Use
1787, in the meaning defined above
- melancholics
- melancholies
- melancholily
- melancholiness
- melancholinesses
- melancholish
- melancholist
- melancholize
- melancholy
- melancholy thistle
- Melanchthon
- Melanchthonian
- Melanconiaceae
- melanconiaceous
- Melanconiales
- Melanellidae
- melanerpeses
- melanerpesses
- Melanesia
- melanesiae
- Melanesian
- Melanesian pidgin
- melanesians
- melanesias
- Melanesid