10-letter words containing a, f, s, l
- rock falls — a city in NW Illinois.
- salad fork — a small, broad fork, usually one of a set, for eating salad or dessert.
- saliferous — containing or producing salt: saliferous strata.
- salifiable — to form into a salt, as by chemical combination.
- salverform — (of the corolla of the phlox and certain other flowers) consisting of a narrow tube with flat spreading terminal petals
- salvifical — saving
- san felipe — a city in NE Venezuela, on the Orinoco River.
- san rafael — a city in W Argentina.
- sandalfoot — (of women's hosiery) having no darker or thicker reinforced areas at the toe or heel, so as to be suitable for wear with sandal-type shoes.
- satchelful — the amount a satchel will hold
- scaffolded — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
- scale leaf — a scalelike leaf, as a bud scale or certain bracts.
- scapa flow — an area of water off the N coast of Scotland, in the Orkney Islands: British naval base; German warships scuttled 1919.
- schefflera — any of various tropical trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Schefflera, of the ginseng family, having glossy, palmately compound leaves and often cultivated as a houseplant.
- scrum half — a player who puts in the ball at scrums and tries to get it away to his three-quarter backs
- self-abuse — reproach or blame of oneself.
- self-aware — having knowledge; conscious; cognizant: aware of danger.
- self-belay — a method of preventing oneself from falling by using a controlled rope
- self-blame — to hold responsible; find fault with; censure: I don't blame you for leaving him.
- self-guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- self-image — the idea, conception, or mental image one has of oneself.
- self-named — a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- self-paced — (of an educational system, course, etc.) done or designed to be accomplished at the student's own speed: self-paced instruction.
- sellafield — the site of an atomic power station and nuclear reprocessing plant in NW England, in W Cumbria
- semi-final — competition round that decides finalists
- semifeudal — partly feudal
- semiformal — partly formal; containing some formal elements: a semiformal occasion; semiformal attire.
- senna leaf — the dried leaflets of any of these plants, used as a cathartic and laxative
- shamefully — causing shame: shameful behavior.
- shelf mark — a symbol indicating the location of a work on a shelf.
- sleep sofa — a sofa that can be used as a bed; sofa bed.
- soapflakes — small particles of solid soap or detergent used for washing clothes
- soft scale — any of numerous homopterous insect pests of the family Coccidae, as leafhoppers, aphids, and whiteflies, that are destructive to crops, shade and fruit trees, and various houseplants.
- soft-pedal — to use the soft pedal.
- softballer — a person who plays or is an enthusiast of softball.
- solifidian — a person who maintains that faith alone, without the performance of good works, is all that is necessary for salvation.
- soya flour — flour made from soya beans
- sparks fly — If sparks fly between people, they discuss something in an excited or angry way.
- spiflicate — to destroy; annihilate
- splay-feet — a broad, flat foot, especially one turned outward.
- splay-foot — a broad, flat foot, especially one turned outward.
- split flap — a flap that is located on the under surface of the trailing edge of an aircraft wing and that splits away from the wing structure when rotated downward, producing an increase in lift or drag or both. Compare landing flap.
- stable fly — a blood-sucking muscid fly, Stomoxys calcitrans, that attacks man and domestic animals
- stableford — a scoring system in which points are awarded according to the number of strokes taken at each hole, whereby a hole completed in one stroke over par counts as one point, a hole completed in level par counts as two points, etc
- stage left — Stage left is the left side of the stage for an actor who is standing facing the audience.
- stall-feed — to keep and feed (an animal) in a stall.
- starflower — any of several plants having starlike flowers, as the star-of-Bethlehem or a plant belonging to the genus Trientalis of the primrose family.
- start life — If something starts life or begins life as a particular thing, it is that thing when it first starts to exist.
- stealthful — secret, clandestine, or surreptitious procedure.
- stepfamily — a family composed of a parent, a stepparent, and a child or children by a previous marriage.