10-letter words containing f, e, t, l, o
- oil filter — a filter that removes impurities from engine oil
- olfactible — Having an odor; capable of being smelled.
- on the fly — to move through the air using wings.
- other half — the people of an economic class clearly different from one's own or from that to which reference is being made: a glimpse of how the other half lives.
- out-relief — public relief administered to people residing in a poorhouse or similar institution.
- outfielder — one of the players, especially in baseball, stationed in the outfield.
- outflanked — Simple past tense and past participle of outflank.
- overflight — an air flight that passes over a specific area, country, or territory: Overflights of foreign aircraft are closely monitored.
- peoplesoft — (application, company) A company selling web-based ERP systems. Originally PeopleSoft supplied human resource management systems, they now provide financial data management, customer relationship management, supply chain management, workforce management, and data analytics systems.
- perfoliate — having the stem apparently passing through the leaf, owing to congenital union of the basal edges of the leaf round the stem.
- prefrontal — anterior to, situated in, or pertaining to the anterior part of a frontal structure.
- profitable — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- profitless — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
- profligate — utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
- profulgent — radiant
- quatrefoil — a leaf composed of four leaflets.
- quintefoil — cinquefoil (def 2).
- rattle off — If you rattle off something, you say it or do it very quickly and without much effort.
- ray floret — one of the marginal florets surrounding the disk of tubular florets in the flower heads of certain composite plants, as the daisy.
- reflection — the act of reflecting, as in casting back a light or heat, mirroring, or giving back or showing an image; the state of being reflected in this way.
- rifle shot — sound of shotgun fire
- root field — a field containing a given field in which every polynomial can be written as the product of linear factors.
- self-doubt — lack of confidence in the reliability of one's own motives, personality, thought, etc.
- self-worth — the sense of one's own value or worth as a person; self-esteem; self-respect.
- settle for — to appoint, fix, or resolve definitely and conclusively; agree upon (as time, price, or conditions).
- shoplifter — a person who steals goods from the shelves or displays of a retail store while posing as a customer.
- short-life — not designed to last
- 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 steel — mild steel.
- soft-pedal — to use the soft pedal.
- soft-shell — Also, soft-shelled. having a soft, flexible, or fragile shell, as a crab that has recently molted.
- softballer — a person who plays or is an enthusiast of softball.
- southfield — a city in SE Michigan, W of Detroit.
- stableford — a scoring system in which points are awarded according to the number of strokes taken at each hole, whereby a hole completed in one stroke over par counts as one point, a hole completed in level par counts as two points, etc
- starflower — any of several plants having starlike flowers, as the star-of-Bethlehem or a plant belonging to the genus Trientalis of the primrose family.
- stelliform — star-shaped.
- streamflow — the water that flows in a specific stream site, especially its volume and rate of flow.
- tanglefoot — a potent alcoholic drink
- tenor clef — a sign locating middle C on the next to the top line of the staff.
- three-fold — a unit of stage scenery consisting of three flats hinged together.
- tile forth — (language) A Forth interpreter in C for Unix by Mikael Patel <[email protected]>. TILE Forth comes with many Forth libraries. It conforms to the Forth83 standard and is distributed under GPL. Availalbe via FTP from a GNU archive site.
- to let fly — If you let fly, you attack someone, either physically by hitting them, or with words by insulting them.
- tolnaftate — an antifungal substance, C 19 H 17 NOS, used topically in the treatment of certain superficial fungal skin infections, as athlete's foot.
- tomfoolery — foolish or silly behavior; tomfoolishness.
- trifoliate — having three leaflets, lobes, or foils; trefoil.
- twelvefold — having twelve sections, aspects, divisions, kinds, etc.
- twentyfold — having twenty sections, aspects, divisions, kinds, etc.
- twinflower — either of two slender, creeping, evergreen, caprifoliaceous plants, Linnaea borealis, of Europe, or L. americana, of North America, having pink or purplish nodding flowers borne in pairs on threadlike stalks.
- unfoldment — to bring out of a folded state; spread or open out: Unfold your arms.
- unfoliated — shaped like a leaf or leaves: foliated ornaments.