10-letter words containing f, r, e, s
- smokeproof — that cannot be penetrated by smoke: a fireproof and smokeproof compartment.
- soft power — the ability to achieve one's goals without force, esp by diplomacy, persuasion, etc
- soft serve — frozen custard
- softballer — a person who plays or is an enthusiast of softball.
- sommerfeld — Arnold (Johannes Wilhelm) [ahr-nawlt-yoh-hahn-uh s-vil-helm] /ˈɑr nɔlt yoʊˈhɑn əsˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1868–1951, German physicist.
- soniferous — conveying or producing sound.
- 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.
- spider fly — an artificial fly having a hackle body, little or no tail, no wings, and unusually long legs, dressed to resemble a spider.
- spoken for — engaged, reserved, or allocated
- 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.
- stelliform — star-shaped.
- stepfather — the husband of one's mother by a later marriage.
- stir-fried — stir-fried.
- 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.
- storefront — the side of a store facing a street, usually containing display windows.
- stouthrief — theft using force or violence
- 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.
- strifeless — without strife
- strike off — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- subfebrile — pertaining to or marked by a temperature slightly above normal.
- subfertile — less than normally fertile
- subofficer — a person who holds a position of rank or authority in the army, navy, air force, or any similar organization, especially one who holds a commission.
- subprefect — an administrator junior to a prefect or chief official
- subsurface — below the surface, especially of a body of water.
- subterfuge — an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc.
- suckerfish — remora.
- 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.
- sulfureous — consisting of, containing, or pertaining to sulfur.
- 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
- superfluid — a fluid that exhibits frictionless flow, very high heat conductivity, and other unusual physical properties, helium below 2.186 K being the only known example.
- surefooted — not likely to stumble, slip, or fall.
- surf smelt — a smelt, Hypomesus pretiosus, inhabiting shallow waters from southern California to Alaska, and spawning in the surf.
- surfaceman — a labourer, such as a miner, who works at the surface