10-letter words containing a, f, t, e
- spiflicate — to destroy; annihilate
- splay-feet — a broad, flat foot, especially one turned outward.
- 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
- staff-tree — any of a genus (Celastrus) of shrubby, usually climbing, plants of the staff-tree family, growing in Asia, Australia, and North America, including bittersweet
- staffrider — a person who illegally rides on the outside of a suburban train
- stage left — Stage left is the left side of the stage for an actor who is standing facing the audience.
- stagecraft — skill in or the art of writing, adapting, or staging plays.
- stall-feed — to keep and feed (an animal) in a stall.
- star facet — (in a brilliant) any of the eight small facets of the crown immediately below the table.
- starfished — lying with arms and legs outstretched; spread-eagled
- 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.
- starfucker — a person who seeks to have sexual relations with celebrities; groupie
- start life — If something starts life or begins life as a particular thing, it is that thing when it first starts to exist.
- statecraft — the art of government and diplomacy.
- stealthful — secret, clandestine, or surreptitious procedure.
- stefansson — Vilhjalmur [vil-hyoul-mer] /ˈvɪlˌhyaʊl mər/ (Show IPA), 1879–1962, U.S. arctic explorer and author, born in Canada.
- stepfamily — a family composed of a parent, a stepparent, and a child or children by a previous marriage.
- stepfather — the husband of one's mother by a later marriage.
- stone deaf — totally deaf.
- stone face — living stones.
- stone-deaf — totally deaf.
- stop-frame — Also called stop frame. the process of filming puppets and other objects one frame at a time while incrementally moving or modifying them, giving the illusion of lifelike motion when the captured film frames are viewed in rapid sequence (often used attributively): stop-motion animation; a stop-motion film.
- stratified — to form or place in strata or layers.
- streamflow — the water that flows in a specific stream site, especially its volume and rate of flow.
- subsulfate — a basic salt of sulfuric acid.
- sucralfate — a sugar-aluminum complex, C 1 2 H 5 4 Al 1 6 O 7 5 S 8 , used for the treatment of duodenal ulcer.
- superfecta — a type of bet, especially on horse races, in which the bettor must select the first four finishers in exact order.
- sweet flag — an aroid marsh plant, Acorus calamus, having swordlike leaves, small greenish flowers, and aromatic roots
- taeniafuge — an agent or medicine for expelling tapeworms from the body.
- taffetized — resembling taffeta
- take after — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- tammerfors — Swedish name of Tampere.
- tanglefoot — a potent alcoholic drink
- tartuffery — behavior or character of a Tartuffe, especially hypocritical piety.
- task force — Navy, Military. a temporary grouping of units under one commander, formed for the purpose of carrying out a specific operation or mission.
- tax refund — rebate on overpaid tax
- tax relief — finance: reduction
- tea family — the plant family Theaceae, characterized by shrubs and trees having simple, alternate leaves, often showy flowers, and capsular, berrylike, or dry fruit, and including the camellia, franklinia, and tea.
- technofear — fear of using technological devices, such as computers; technophobia
- telferages — telpher.
- thereafter — after that in time or sequence; afterward: Thereafter they did not speak.
- threadfish — any of several jacks of the genus Alectis, especially A. ciliaris, having the front rays of the dorsal and anal fins greatly elongated.
- time draft — a draft payable within a specified number of days after it is presented.
- time frame — a period of time during which something has taken or will take place: We're talking about a time frame of five minutes for the president's visit.
- tolnaftate — an antifungal substance, C 19 H 17 NOS, used topically in the treatment of certain superficial fungal skin infections, as athlete's foot.
- tortfeasor — a person who commits a tort.
- trade fair — exhibition by a particular industry
- tradecraft — the skills learned from experience in a trade, often used to refer to the skills spies use to avoid being detected
- trafficked — the movement of vehicles, ships, persons, etc., in an area, along a street, through an air lane, over a water route, etc.: the heavy traffic on Main Street.