10-letter words containing f, r, e, t
- sex factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
- shipfitter — a person who forms plates, shapes, etc., of ship according to plans, patterns, or molds.
- shopfitter — a worker who makes and installs fittings for commercial premises
- shoplifter — a person who steals goods from the shelves or displays of a retail store while posing as a customer.
- shorefront — land along a shore.
- short fuse — a quick temper: A person with a short fuse has to be handled diplomatically.
- short-life — not designed to last
- siegecraft — the science or skill of conducting a siege
- six-footer — a person who is roughly six feet tall.
- 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.
- spacecraft — a vehicle designed for travel or operation in space beyond the earth's atmosphere or in orbit around the earth.
- 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.
- subfertile — less than normally fertile
- subprefect — an administrator junior to a prefect or chief official
- subterfuge — an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc.
- 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.
- superfecta — a type of bet, especially on horse races, in which the bettor must select the first four finishers in exact order.
- 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.
- surfeiting — excess; an excessive amount: a surfeit of speechmaking.
- sweet fern — a North American shrub, Comptonia (or Myrica) asplenifolia, having scented fernlike leaves and heads of brownish flowers: family Myricaceae
- 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.