11-letter words containing a, l, f
- shelf paper — paper used for covering shelves, especially those of a cupboard or kitchen cabinet.
- shelf space — amount of room on shelves
- shelftalker — a promotional sign used by a retailer to draw attention to a featured product on the shelf
- sheriffalty — shrievalty.
- signal flag — a flag used for sending messages to other ships
- silver leaf — silver in the form of very thin foil.
- sioux falls — a city in SE South Dakota.
- slacken off — If something slackens off, it becomes slower, less active, or less intense.
- slant front — a flap of a desk, sloping upward and inward to close the desk, and opening forward and downward to a horizontal position as a writing surface: a form of fall front.
- small stuff — small cordage, as marlines, yarns, etc.
- smiley face — a digital icon, a sequence of keyboard symbols, or a handwritten or printed equivalent, that serves to represent a facial expression, as :‐) for a smiling face or ;‐) for a winking face. Compare emoticon.
- snail fever — schistosomiasis.
- snailflower — a tropical vine, Vigna caracalla, of the legume family, having fragrant, yellowish or purplish flowers, a segment of which is shaped like a snail's shell.
- social fund — (in Britain) a social security fund from which loans or payments may be made to people in cases of extreme need
- social life — leisure time spent with other people
- soft launch — the launch of a website in stages, with regular updating
- soft palate — Anatomy. the roof of the mouth, consisting of an anterior bony portion (hard palate) and a posterior muscular portion (soft palate) that separate the oral cavity from the nasal cavity.
- solar flare — flare (def 22).
- soothfastly — in a soothfast manner
- spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
- spanish fly — Also called cantharides. a preparation of powdered blister beetles, especially the Spanish fly, used medicinally as a counterirritant, diuretic, and aphrodisiac.
- specifiable — that can be specified.
- spiraliform — having or resembling spiral lines
- splashproof — resistant to splashing
- stagflation — an inflationary period accompanied by rising unemployment and lack of growth in consumer demand and business activity.
- steadfastly — fixed in direction; steadily directed: a steadfast gaze.
- steel-faced — having the front or outer surfaces covered with or characterized by steel.
- stick float — a float attached at the top and bottom to the line
- still frame — continuous display of a single frame of a film or of a single picture from a television signal
- strand wolf — brown hyena.
- strawflower — any of several everlasting flowers, especially an Australian composite plant, Helichrysum bracteatum, having heads of chaffy yellow, orange, red, or white flowers.
- studio flat — a flat with one main room
- sub-fascial — a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.
- subaffluent — between poor and affluent
- subclassify — to arrange in subclasses.
- sulfonamide — sulfa drug.
- sulfonation — the process of attaching the sulfonic acid group, –SO 3 H, directly to carbon in an organic compound.
- sulfuration — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur, the fumes of burning sulfur, etc.
- superfamily — a category of related families within an order or suborder.
- superficial — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
- tachina fly — any of numerous dipterous insects of the family Tachinidae, the larvae of which are parasitic on caterpillars, beetles, and other insects.
- tactfulness — having or manifesting tact: a tactful person; a tactful reply.
- taffy apple — candy apple.
- tailleferre — Germaine, 1892–1983, French composer.
- take flight — an act or instance of fleeing or running away; hasty departure.
- talk out of — dissuade
- tariff line — an item listed in a country's tariff schedule
- teaspoonful — the amount a teaspoon can hold.
- telefeature — a major dramatic television film, usually of a length comparable to a theatrical feature film.
- that's life — expressing acceptance of fate