10-letter words containing f, e, t, l
- 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.
- reflecting — to cast back (light, heat, sound, etc.) from a surface: The mirror reflected the light onto the wall.
- 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.
- reflective — that reflects; reflecting.
- reflex-act — Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
- refractile — refractive (def 2).
- relay fast — (esp in India) a form of protest in which a number of persons go without food by turns
- requiteful — requiting, tending to requite
- respectful — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
- rifle butt — the end of the stock of a rifle
- rifle shot — sound of shotgun fire
- rijsttafel — an Indonesian meal consisting of rice served with a large array of small dishes of meat, poultry, seafood, vegetables, and condiments.
- root field — a field containing a given field in which every polynomial can be written as the product of linear factors.
- satchelful — the amount a satchel will hold
- scuttleful — the amount a scuttle will hold
- self-doubt — lack of confidence in the reliability of one's own motives, personality, thought, etc.
- self-stick — having a surface coated or treated to stick to another surface without the use of glue or moisture; self-adhesive.
- self-study — the study of something by oneself, as through books, records, etc., without direct supervision or attendance in a class: She learned to read German by self-study.
- self-timer — a mechanism in a camera that operates a delay between the operation of the shutter release and the opening of the shutter, enabling the photographer to be included in the photograph
- self-trust — reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
- self-unity — the state of being one; oneness.
- 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).
- setup file — a file needed to set up or install a computer program
- sheet film — a flat piece of film cut to a required size before being loaded into a camera.
- 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
- smithfield — a town in N Rhode Island.
- 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.
- spent fuel — nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in a nuclear reactor to the point where it is no longer useful in sustaining a nuclear reaction
- spiflicate — to destroy; annihilate
- splay-feet — a broad, flat foot, especially one turned outward.
- stable fly — a blood-sucking muscid fly, Stomoxys calcitrans, that attacks man and domestic animals
- 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
- stage left — Stage left is the left side of the stage for an actor who is standing facing the audience.
- stall-feed — to keep and feed (an animal) in a stall.
- 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.
- start life — If something starts life or begins life as a particular thing, it is that thing when it first starts to exist.
- stealthful — secret, clandestine, or surreptitious procedure.