10-letter words containing f, r, e, a
- 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-aware — having knowledge; conscious; cognizant: aware of danger.
- self-guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- semiformal — partly formal; containing some formal elements: a semiformal occasion; semiformal attire.
- sex factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
- sheep farm — place where sheep are raised
- shelf mark — a symbol indicating the location of a work on a shelf.
- siegecraft — the science or skill of conducting a siege
- softballer — a person who plays or is an enthusiast of softball.
- sour-faced — bad-tempered and unfriendly
- spacecraft — a vehicle designed for travel or operation in space beyond the earth's atmosphere or in orbit around the earth.
- speedfreak — an addict or habitual user of amphetamines, methamphetamines, or similar stimulating drugs.
- square off — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- 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
- staff-tree — any of a genus (Celastrus) of shrubby, usually climbing, plants of the staff-tree family, growing in Asia, Australia, and North America, including bittersweet
- staffrider — a person who illegally rides on the outside of a suburban train
- stagecraft — skill in or the art of writing, adapting, or staging plays.
- star facet — (in a brilliant) any of the eight small facets of the crown immediately below the table.
- starfished — lying with arms and legs outstretched; spread-eagled
- 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.
- starfucker — a person who seeks to have sexual relations with celebrities; groupie
- start life — If something starts life or begins life as a particular thing, it is that thing when it first starts to exist.
- statecraft — the art of government and diplomacy.
- stepfather — the husband of one's mother by a later marriage.
- stop-frame — Also called stop frame. the process of filming puppets and other objects one frame at a time while incrementally moving or modifying them, giving the illusion of lifelike motion when the captured film frames are viewed in rapid sequence (often used attributively): stop-motion animation; a stop-motion film.
- stratified — to form or place in strata or layers.
- streamflow — the water that flows in a specific stream site, especially its volume and rate of flow.
- subsurface — below the surface, especially of a body of water.
- sucralfate — a sugar-aluminum complex, C 1 2 H 5 4 Al 1 6 O 7 5 S 8 , used for the treatment of duodenal ulcer.
- sufferable — to undergo or feel pain or distress: The patient is still suffering.
- sufferance — passive permission resulting from lack of interference; tolerance, especially of something wrong or illegal (usually preceded by on or by).
- sugar-free — containing no sugar: a sugar-free cola.
- superfecta — a type of bet, especially on horse races, in which the bettor must select the first four finishers in exact order.
- superflack — an extremely competent, successful press agent
- surfaceman — a labourer, such as a miner, who works at the surface
- take after — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- tammerfors — Swedish name of Tampere.
- tartuffery — behavior or character of a Tartuffe, especially hypocritical piety.
- task force — Navy, Military. a temporary grouping of units under one commander, formed for the purpose of carrying out a specific operation or mission.
- tax refund — rebate on overpaid tax
- tax relief — finance: reduction
- technofear — fear of using technological devices, such as computers; technophobia
- telferages — telpher.
- thereafter — after that in time or sequence; afterward: Thereafter they did not speak.
- threadfish — any of several jacks of the genus Alectis, especially A. ciliaris, having the front rays of the dorsal and anal fins greatly elongated.
- time draft — a draft payable within a specified number of days after it is presented.
- time frame — a period of time during which something has taken or will take place: We're talking about a time frame of five minutes for the president's visit.
- tortfeasor — a person who commits a tort.
- trade fair — exhibition by a particular industry