10-letter words containing a, l, f
- 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.
- stomachful — the amount one's stomach can hold
- strandflat — a shore platform found along the coasts of Greenland, Iceland and Norway which may have formed as the result of glacial erosion
- strandwolf — brown hyena.
- streamflow — the water that flows in a specific stream site, especially its volume and rate of flow.
- subfascial — a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.
- 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.
- sufferable — to undergo or feel pain or distress: The patient is still suffering.
- sufflation — to inflate.
- sugar loaf — resembling a sugar-loaf.
- sugar-loaf — resembling a sugar-loaf.
- sulfa drug — any of a group of drugs closely related in chemical structure to sulfanilamide, having a bacteriostatic rather than a bacteriocidal effect: used in the treatment of various wounds, burns, and infections.
- sulfanilyl — containing the sulfanilyl group.
- superflack — an extremely competent, successful press agent
- sweet flag — an aroid marsh plant, Acorus calamus, having swordlike leaves, small greenish flowers, and aromatic roots
- t-bar lift — a ski lift having an upside-down T -shaped bar against which two skiers may lean while being pulled uphill.
- taffy pull — a party at which taffy is made
- talking of — You can use the expression talking of to introduce a new topic that you want to discuss, and to link it to something that has already been mentioned.
- tanglefoot — a potent alcoholic drink
- tax relief — finance: reduction
- taxflation — bracket creep.
- 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.
- telferages — telpher.
- thalliform — resembling a thallus
- thankfully — feeling or expressing gratitude; appreciative.
- tidal flat — tideland that is flat or nearly flat and often muddy or marshy.
- to a fault — a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
- tolnaftate — an antifungal substance, C 19 H 17 NOS, used topically in the treatment of certain superficial fungal skin infections, as athlete's foot.
- transferal — transference; transfer.
- trifoliate — having three leaflets, lobes, or foils; trefoil.
- twin falls — a city in S Idaho.
- ufological — of or relating to ufology
- ultra-left — having extreme left-wing views
- ultrafiche — a form of microfiche with the images greatly reduced in size, generally by a factor of 100 or more.
- ultramafic — ultrabasic.
- unaffluent — not affluent or wealthy
- unartfully — in an unartful manner
- unboastful — not boastful
- undefiable — to challenge the power of; resist boldly or openly: to defy parental authority.
- unfadingly — in an unfading manner