11-letter words containing e, s, c, o, f
- post office — an office or station of a government postal system at which mail is received and sorted, from which it is dispatched and distributed, and at which stamps are sold or other services rendered.
- pousse-cafe — an after-dinner drink of liqueurs of various colors and specific gravities, carefully poured into a glass so as to remain floating in separate layers.
- prime focus — the focal point of the objective lens or primary mirror of a telescope
- re-forecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- reflections — thoughts, esp careful or long-considered ones
- resourceful — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.
- rose chafer — a tan scarabaeid beetle, Macrodactylus subspinosis, that feeds on the flowers and foliage of roses, grapes, peach trees, etc.
- safety lock — a lock designed to prevent picking.
- sales force — team of salespeople
- scaffoldage — a scaffold or scaffolding
- schaffhouse — a town in N Switzerland, capital of Schaffhausen canton, on the Rhine. Pop: 33 628 (2000)
- school fees — the money paid for a person to go to school
- school life — the period of your life that you spend at school
- scuffle hoe — a hoe with a flat blade, pushed back and forth through the surface soil, as to weed
- second self — one who associates so closely with a given person as to assume that person's mode of behavior, personality, beliefs, etc.
- second-feet — a unit of measurement of liquid flow, especially of rivers, equal to one cubic foot per second.
- second-foot — a unit of measurement of liquid flow, especially of rivers, equal to one cubic foot per second.
- second-half — happening in the second half of a game
- section off — If an area is sectioned off, it is separated by a wall, fence, or other barrier from the surrounding area.
- shear force — Shear force is force that makes one surface of a substance move over another parallel surface.
- shot effect — random fluctuations in the emission of electrons from a hot cathode, causing a hissing or sputtering sound (shot noise) in an audio amplifier and causing snow on a television screen.
- silicon fen — an area of Cambridgeshire, esp around the city of Cambridge, in which industries associated with information technology are concentrated
- slacken off — If something slackens off, it becomes slower, less active, or less intense.
- social life — leisure time spent with other people
- soft centre — a chocolate that has a soft filling
- soft cheese — a type of cheese that is made in a relatively short time and has a soft, creamy or almost runny texture
- soft pencil — a type of pencil that contains a thicker, oilier and darker form of graphite
- speech form — linguistic form.
- spent force — If you refer to someone who used to be powerful as a spent force, you mean that they no longer have any power or influence.
- stone-faced — having a rigid, expressionless face.
- stony-faced — having a rigid, expressionless face.
- storm force — (on the Beaufort scale) force 10 0r 11
- sucket fork — a utensil for sweetmeats of the 16th, 17th, and early 18th centuries, having fork tines at one end and a spoon bowl at the other end of a common stem.
- surf scoter — a large, North American scoter, Melanitta perspicillata, the adult male of which is black with two white patches on the head.
- tischendorf — Lobegott Friedrich Konstantin von [loh-buh-gawt free-drikh kawn-stahn-teen fuh n] /ˈloʊ bəˌgɔt ˈfri drɪx ˌkɔn stɑnˈtin fən/ (Show IPA), 1815–74, German Biblical critic.
- true fresco — fresco (def 1).
- true-fresco — fresco (def 1).
- unconfessed — not admitted
- worksurface — A surface, usually resting on cupboards or drawers in a kitchen, that can be used to work on.
- zinciferous — yielding or containing zinc.