10-letter words containing f, e, a, s
- safety pin — pin with covered point
- safety-pin — to secure or affix with a safety pin: to safety-pin a child's mittens to his coat sleeve.
- sainte foy — a SW suburb of Quebec, on the St Lawrence River. Pop: 72 547 (2001)
- saliferous — containing or producing salt: saliferous strata.
- salifiable — to form into a salt, as by chemical combination.
- salverform — (of the corolla of the phlox and certain other flowers) consisting of a narrow tube with flat spreading terminal petals
- san felipe — a city in NE Venezuela, on the Orinoco River.
- san rafael — a city in W Argentina.
- sanctified — made holy; consecrated: sanctified wine.
- sanctifier — to make holy; set apart as sacred; consecrate.
- sanforized — (of a fabric) preshrunk using a patented process
- sans serif — a style of monotonal type without serifs.
- sans-serif — a style of monotonal type without serifs.
- santa fean — a city in and the capital of New Mexico, in the N part: founded c1605.
- saponifier — to convert (a fat) into soap by treating with an alkali.
- satchelful — the amount a satchel will hold
- satisfiers — to fulfill the desires, expectations, needs, or demands of (a person, the mind, etc.); give full contentment to: The hearty meal satisfied him.
- scaffolded — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
- scale leaf — a scalelike leaf, as a bud scale or certain bracts.
- scar-faced — with a face marked by a scar or scars.
- schefflera — any of various tropical trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Schefflera, of the ginseng family, having glossy, palmately compound leaves and often cultivated as a houseplant.
- 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-abuse — reproach or blame of oneself.
- self-aware — having knowledge; conscious; cognizant: aware of danger.
- self-belay — a method of preventing oneself from falling by using a controlled rope
- self-blame — to hold responsible; find fault with; censure: I don't blame you for leaving him.
- self-guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- self-image — the idea, conception, or mental image one has of oneself.
- 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
- semi-final — competition round that decides finalists
- semifeudal — partly feudal
- semiformal — partly formal; containing some formal elements: a semiformal occasion; semiformal attire.
- send a fax — If you send a fax, you send a copy of a document from one fax machine to another.
- senna leaf — the dried leaflets of any of these plants, used as a cathartic and laxative
- sex factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
- shamefaced — modest or bashful.
- shamefully — causing shame: shameful behavior.
- sheep farm — place where sheep are raised
- shelf mark — a symbol indicating the location of a work on a shelf.
- shit-faced — very drunk.
- siegecraft — the science or skill of conducting a siege
- sleep sofa — a sofa that can be used as a bed; sofa bed.
- snake foot — an elongated foot or short leg, as to a pedestal table, having the form of an ogee tangent to the floor surface.
- soapflakes — small particles of solid soap or detergent used for washing clothes
- soft paste — any of a variety of artificial porcelains, usually incorporating glass or glass ingredients.
- soft scale — any of numerous homopterous insect pests of the family Coccidae, as leafhoppers, aphids, and whiteflies, that are destructive to crops, shade and fruit trees, and various houseplants.
- soft wheat — a wheat characterized by soft, starchy kernels that yield a flour used in making pastry, breakfast cereals, etc.
- soft-pedal — to use the soft pedal.