11-letter words containing f, e, r, s
- speed freak — an addict or habitual user of amphetamines, methamphetamines, or similar stimulating drugs.
- spendthrift — a person who spends possessions or money extravagantly or wastefully; prodigal.
- 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.
- spiniferous — (esp of plants) bearing spines or thorns
- spiriferous — having a spire or spiral parts.
- spore fruit — a spore-bearing structure, as an ascoscarp; sporocarp.
- sporiferous — bearing spores.
- springfield — a state in the central United States: a part of the Midwest. 56,400 sq. mi. (146,075 sq. km). Capital: Springfield. Abbreviation: IL (for use with zip code), Ill.
- 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
- stone fruit — a fruit with a stone or hard endocarp, as a peach or plum; drupe.
- store front — Store fronts are the windows of stores that can be looked into from the street, often displaying the types of product each store sells.
- storm force — (on the Beaufort scale) force 10 0r 11
- 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
- street food — ready-to-eat food sold on the street or in a park, open-air market, or other outdoor public place.
- strengthful — full of strength, strong
- strife-torn — divided by violent conflict or dissent
- strike fire — to make a spark, as with tinder
- strike fund — an amount of money reserved by a union to make payments to striking works should a strike occur
- stunt flier — someone who performs stunts in an aeroplane, such as special turns, etc, in the air
- styliferous — having a style (part of the female organ of a plant)
- sub-surface — below the surface, especially of a body of water.
- subfreezing — below the freezing point.
- 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.
- suffer from — be ill with
- suffragette — a woman advocate of female suffrage.
- sunk relief — cavo-relievo.
- 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.
- superficies — the surface, outer face, or outside of a thing.
- superfluity — the state of being superfluous.
- superfluous — being more than is sufficient or required; excessive.
- superinfect — to infect further with an additional infection
- superprofit — above-average profits gained through enterprise
- superrefine — to refine to an advanced degree
- supersafety — the state of being supersafe
- sure-footed — not likely to stumble, slip, or fall.
- surf scoter — a large, North American scoter, Melanitta perspicillata, the adult male of which is black with two white patches on the head.
- surgeonfish — any tropical, coral-reef fish of the family Acanthuridae, with one or more sharp spines near the base of the tail fin.
- swamp fever — leptospirosis.
- swell front — a horizontally convex front, as of a chest of drawers.
- swine fever — hog cholera.
- tanniferous — containing much tannin; yielding tannin.
- tea infuser — mesh ball for straining tea leaves
- texas fever — babesiosis of cattle.
- the forties — the numbers 40–49 in a particular century, esp the 20th century