10-letter words containing d, e, f
- rifle bird — any of several birds of paradise of Australia, having a long bill, dark plumage, and elaborate courtship displays.
- rift-sawed — (of lumber) sawed radially so that the broader sides of the boards or timbers are approximately perpendicular to the annual rings.
- rock-faced — (of a person) having a stiff, expressionless face.
- root field — a field containing a given field in which every polynomial can be written as the product of linear factors.
- round file — circular file.
- rudderfish — any of various fishes having the habit of following behind ships, as a pilot fish.
- rutherford — Daniel, 1749–1819, Scottish physician and chemist: discoverer of nitrogen.
- sacrificed — the offering of animal, plant, or human life or of some material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage.
- sanctified — made holy; consecrated: sanctified wine.
- sanforized — (of a fabric) preshrunk using a patented process
- scaffolded — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
- scar-faced — with a face marked by a scar or scars.
- sdeignfull — disdainful
- 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-build — the practice of building one's own home
- self-doubt — lack of confidence in the reliability of one's own motives, personality, thought, etc.
- self-drive — of, for, designating, or providing a car that is rented for personal use, without a hired driver.
- 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.
- self-pride — pride in one's abilities, status, possessions, etc.; self-esteem.
- self-study — the study of something by oneself, as through books, records, etc., without direct supervision or attendance in a class: She learned to read German by self-study.
- sellafield — the site of an atomic power station and nuclear reprocessing plant in NW England, in W Cumbria
- semifeudal — partly feudal
- semifitted — designed to fit closely but not snugly: a semifitted jacket.
- semifreddo — a partially frozen Italian dessert similar to ice cream
- send a fax — If you send a fax, you send a copy of a document from one fax machine to another.
- send forth — to be a source of; cause to appear; give out or forth; produce, emit, utter, etc.
- senefelder — Aloys [ah-loh-ys,, ah-lois] /ˈɑ loʊ üs,, ˈɑ lɔɪs/ (Show IPA), 1771–1834, German inventor of lithography.
- shamefaced — modest or bashful.
- sheep-fold — an enclosure for sheep.
- sheet feed — the part of a computer printer where sheets of paper can be inserted and are then fed through the machine one at a time
- shit-faced — very drunk.
- simplified — to make less complex or complicated; make plainer or easier: to simplify a problem.
- skew field — a ring in which the equations ax = b and xa = b have solutions for x.
- smithfield — a town in N Rhode Island.
- soft-pedal — to use the soft pedal.
- softheaded — stupid or foolish
- solid fuel — Solid fuel is fuel such as coal or wood, that is solid rather than liquid or gas.
- solidified — to make solid; make into a hard or compact mass; change from a liquid or gaseous to a solid form.
- solidifies — to make solid; make into a hard or compact mass; change from a liquid or gaseous to a solid form.
- sommerfeld — Arnold (Johannes Wilhelm) [ahr-nawlt-yoh-hahn-uh s-vil-helm] /ˈɑr nɔlt yoʊˈhɑn əsˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1868–1951, German physicist.
- sound file — an audio file that can be played by a computer or other electronic device
- sour-faced — bad-tempered and unfriendly
- southfield — a city in SE Michigan, W of Detroit.
- spade foot — a square foot, tapering toward its bottom.
- speedfreak — an addict or habitual user of amphetamines, methamphetamines, or similar stimulating drugs.
- speedfully — in a quick or effective manner
- spider fly — an artificial fly having a hackle body, little or no tail, no wings, and unusually long legs, dressed to resemble a spider.
- spoon-feed — to cause to be spoon-fed.