10-letter words containing d, e, a, f
- seferiades — Giorgos Stylianou [yawr-gaws stee-lyah-noo] /ˈyɔr gɔs ˌsti lyɑˈnu/ (Show IPA), (Giorgos Seferis) 1900–71, Greek poet and diplomat: Nobel Prize in literature 1963.
- self-guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- 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
- semifeudal — partly feudal
- send a fax — If you send a fax, you send a copy of a document from one fax machine to another.
- shamefaced — modest or bashful.
- shit-faced — very drunk.
- soft-pedal — to use the soft pedal.
- softheaded — stupid or foolish
- sour-faced — bad-tempered and unfriendly
- spade foot — a square foot, tapering toward its bottom.
- speedfreak — an addict or habitual user of amphetamines, methamphetamines, or similar stimulating drugs.
- 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
- staffrider — a person who illegally rides on the outside of a suburban train
- stall-feed — to keep and feed (an animal) in a stall.
- starfished — lying with arms and legs outstretched; spread-eagled
- stone deaf — totally deaf.
- stone-deaf — totally deaf.
- stratified — to form or place in strata or layers.
- taffetized — resembling taffeta
- tax refund — rebate on overpaid tax
- 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.
- 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.
- transfixed — to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.
- unaffected — not affected, acted upon, or influenced; unchanged; unaltered: The laboratory clock remained accurate, unaffected by the explosion.
- unaffirmed — to state or assert positively; maintain as true: to affirm one's loyalty to one's country; He affirmed that all was well.
- undefeated — to overcome in a contest, election, battle, etc.; prevail over; vanquish: They defeated the enemy. She defeated her brother at tennis.
- undefiable — to challenge the power of; resist boldly or openly: to defy parental authority.
- underdraft — a tendency of a rolled piece to curve downward after passing through a stand, occurring when the upper roll is faster than the lower. Compare overdraft (def 7).
- underframe — the lower frame on which a vehicular structure rests: the underframe of a bus.
- unfactored — one of the elements contributing to a particular result or situation: Poverty is only one of the factors in crime.
- unfathered — having no father; fatherless.
- unfathomed — a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 meters): used chiefly in nautical measurements. Abbreviation: fath.
- unfavoured — not regarded with especial kindness or approval
- unfeatured — not featured
- unfindable — not capable of being found: an unfindable treasure.
- unfoliated — shaped like a leaf or leaves: foliated ornaments.
- unfordable — (of a river, flood, stream, etc) not able to be forded
- unfrazzled — worn-out; fatigued: a party that left us frazzled.
- unheard of — that was never heard of; unknown: an unheard-of artist.
- unheard-of — that was never heard of; unknown: an unheard-of artist.
- uninflamed — (of a body part, organ, or tissue) not inflamed
- uninflated — distended with air or gas; swollen.
- unpacified — to bring or restore to a state of peace or tranquillity; quiet; calm: to pacify an angry man.
- unprofaned — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.