11-letter words containing f, a, r, e
- shaft grave — a grave consisting of a deep, rectangular pit with vertical sides, roofed over with a stone slab.
- shaftesbury — Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of, 1621–83, English statesman.
- share draft — an interest-bearing checking account in a credit union.
- sharefarmer — a farmer who pays a fee to another in return for use of land to raise crops, etc
- shear force — Shear force is force that makes one surface of a substance move over another parallel surface.
- shelf paper — paper used for covering shelves, especially those of a cupboard or kitchen cabinet.
- shelftalker — a promotional sign used by a retailer to draw attention to a featured product on the shelf
- sheriffalty — shrievalty.
- shift gears — change speed manually in a vehicle
- silver leaf — silver in the form of very thin foil.
- 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.
- soft sawder — flattery; compliments
- soft target — sth easy to hit
- soft-soaper — a person who flatters or cajoles, especially for reasons of self-interest or personal advantage: a soft-soaper specializing in rich, elderly women.
- softhearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
- software ag — (company) A German software engineering company that started with the ADABAS database. Natural is their 4GL development environment, EntireX is their DCOM for Unix and IBM. BOLERO, is an object-oriented development environment and application server specially made for Electronic Business applications. Mailing-list: <[email protected]>.
- solar flare — flare (def 22).
- spacefaring — space travel
- speechcraft — the art of rhetoric
- speed freak — an addict or habitual user of amphetamines, methamphetamines, or similar stimulating drugs.
- square foot — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one foot on each side; 0.0929 square meters. 2 , sq. ft. Abbreviation: ft.
- staff nurse — nurse who works on a ward
- steamfitter — a highly skilled person who installs and repairs pipes for air conditioning, ventilation, refrigeration, and heating systems
- still frame — continuous display of a single frame of a film or of a single picture from a television signal
- strawflower — any of several everlasting flowers, especially an Australian composite plant, Helichrysum bracteatum, having heads of chaffy yellow, orange, red, or white flowers.
- stream feed — (on a photocopier, printer) a continuous supply of paper
- sub-surface — below the surface, especially of a body of water.
- suffragette — a woman advocate of female suffrage.
- superfamily — a category of related families within an order or suborder.
- superfatted — (of soap) containing excess fat that has not been converted into soap by saponification
- superficial — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
- supersafety — the state of being supersafe
- swamp fever — leptospirosis.
- tailleferre — Germaine, 1892–1983, French composer.
- take fright — be scared off
- tamperproof — that cannot be tampered with; impervious to tampering: a tamper-proof lock.
- tanniferous — containing much tannin; yielding tannin.
- tariff line — an item listed in a country's tariff schedule
- tea infuser — mesh ball for straining tea leaves
- telefeature — a major dramatic television film, usually of a length comparable to a theatrical feature film.
- term of art — a word or phrase that has a specific or precise meaning within a given discipline or field and might have a different meaning in common usage: Set is a term of art used by mathematicians, and burden of proof is a term of art used by lawyers.
- terra firma — firm or solid earth; dry land (as opposed to water or air).
- texas fever — babesiosis of cattle.
- the giraffe — the constellation Camelopardalis
- the welfare — the public agencies involved with giving such assistance
- tidal force — the gravitational pull exerted by a celestial body that raises the tides on another body within the gravitational field, dependent on the varying distance between the bodies.
- to be frank — You can say 'to be frank' or 'to be frank with you' to introduce a statement which is your honest opinion, especially when the person you are talking to might not like it.
- tort-feasor — a person who commits a tort.
- tractorfeed — Computers. a mechanism for aligning and transporting paper for a printer by means of pins that catch in perforations along the edges of the paper.