10-letter words containing a, f, t, e
- quantifier — Logic. an expression, as “all” or “some,” that indicates the quantity of a proposition. Compare existential quantifier, universal quantifier.
- quantifies — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
- quatrefoil — a leaf composed of four leaflets.
- queencraft — the art of queenly rule
- rainforest — a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.
- rattle off — If you rattle off something, you say it or do it very quickly and without much effort.
- ray floret — one of the marginal florets surrounding the disk of tubular florets in the flower heads of certain composite plants, as the daisy.
- reafforest — to replant (an area that was formerly forested)
- refit yard — a yard where ships are made ready for use again by repairing, re-equipping, or resupplying
- reflex-act — Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
- reforecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- refractile — refractive (def 2).
- refracting — undergoing or causing refraction
- refraction — Physics. the change of direction of a ray of light, sound, heat, or the like, in passing obliquely from one medium into another in which its wave velocity is different.
- refractive — of or relating to refraction.
- refractory — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
- refracture — the breaking of a bone, cartilage, or the like, or the resulting condition. Compare comminuted fracture, complete fracture, compound fracture, greenstick fracture, simple fracture.
- refutation — an act of refuting a statement, charge, etc.; disproof.
- refutative — tending to refute; pertaining to refutation: refutative evidence.
- relay fast — (esp in India) a form of protest in which a number of persons go without food by turns
- remanifest — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- retransfer — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- rift-sawed — (of lumber) sawed radially so that the broader sides of the boards or timbers are approximately perpendicular to the annual rings.
- right face — Military. a command, given to a soldier or soldiers at attention, to turn the body about toward the right so as to face in the opposite direction. the act of so turning in a prescribed military manner.
- rijsttafel — an Indonesian meal consisting of rice served with a large array of small dishes of meat, poultry, seafood, vegetables, and condiments.
- rivercraft — a small vessel which is used to travel on rivers
- roast beef — cow's meat cooked in oven
- safety car — life car.
- safety man — safety (def 6c).
- safety net — a large net rigged between a person, as a trapeze performer, and the ground as protection in a fall.
- safety pin — pin with covered point
- safety-pin — to secure or affix with a safety pin: to safety-pin a child's mittens to his coat sleeve.
- sainte foy — a SW suburb of Quebec, on the St Lawrence River. Pop: 72 547 (2001)
- sanctified — made holy; consecrated: sanctified wine.
- sanctifier — to make holy; set apart as sacred; consecrate.
- santa fean — a city in and the capital of New Mexico, in the N part: founded c1605.
- satchelful — the amount a satchel will hold
- satisfiers — to fulfill the desires, expectations, needs, or demands of (a person, the mind, etc.); give full contentment to: The hearty meal satisfied him.
- sex factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
- shit-faced — very drunk.
- siegecraft — the science or skill of conducting a siege
- snake foot — an elongated foot or short leg, as to a pedestal table, having the form of an ogee tangent to the floor surface.
- soft paste — any of a variety of artificial porcelains, usually incorporating glass or glass ingredients.
- 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 wheat — a wheat characterized by soft, starchy kernels that yield a flour used in making pastry, breakfast cereals, etc.
- soft-pedal — to use the soft pedal.
- softballer — a person who plays or is an enthusiast of softball.
- softheaded — stupid or foolish
- spacecraft — a vehicle designed for travel or operation in space beyond the earth's atmosphere or in orbit around the earth.
- spade foot — a square foot, tapering toward its bottom.