10-letter words containing i, l, f, a
- prequalify — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
- prize flag — a flag hoisted by a yacht upon learning that it has won a prize in a race.
- pro-family — that favors or benefits families
- profitable — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- profitably — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- profligacy — shameless dissoluteness.
- profligate — utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
- quadrifoil — Alternative form of quadrifoliate.
- qualifiers — Plural form of qualifier.
- qualifying — Present participle of qualify.
- quatrefoil — a leaf composed of four leaflets.
- raduliform — rasp-like
- rail fence — a fence made of rails resting on crossed stakes or across one another at an angle.
- reclassify — to classify anew.
- refillable — a material, supply, or the like, to replace something that has been used up: a refill for a prescription.
- refractile — refractive (def 2).
- relief map — a map showing the relief of an area, usually by generalized contour lines.
- riboflavin — a vitamin B complex factor appearing as an orange-yellow, crystalline compound, C 1 7 H 2 0 N 4 O 6 , derived from ribose, essential for growth, found in milk, fresh meat, eggs, leafy vegetables, etc., or made synthetically, and used in enriching flour, in vitamin preparations, and in treating facial lesions.
- rijsttafel — an Indonesian meal consisting of rice served with a large array of small dishes of meat, poultry, seafood, vegetables, and condiments.
- ring false — to give the impression of being false
- ring flash — a type of electronic flash in which the light source is arranged in a ring around the lens in order to produce a light without shadows
- rolf kraki — a possibly historical Danish king of the 9th century, the subject of an Old Icelandic saga and in accounts by the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus: involved in great battles with his stepfather, Adils of Sweden.
- royal fizz — a beverage consisting of gin, lemon juice, sugar, and an egg.
- rue family — the plant family Rutaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having simple or compound aromatic leaves, fragrant flowers, and fruit in a variety of forms, and including the citruses, the gas plant, Hercules'-club, and rue.
- saliferous — containing or producing salt: saliferous strata.
- salifiable — to form into a salt, as by chemical combination.
- salvifical — saving
- san felipe — a city in NE Venezuela, on the Orinoco River.
- self-image — the idea, conception, or mental image one has of oneself.
- sellafield — the site of an atomic power station and nuclear reprocessing plant in NW England, in W Cumbria
- semi-final — competition round that decides finalists
- semifeudal — partly feudal
- semiformal — partly formal; containing some formal elements: a semiformal occasion; semiformal attire.
- solifidian — a person who maintains that faith alone, without the performance of good works, is all that is necessary for salvation.
- spiflicate — to destroy; annihilate
- split flap — a flap that is located on the under surface of the trailing edge of an aircraft wing and that splits away from the wing structure when rotated downward, producing an increase in lift or drag or both. Compare landing flap.
- start life — If something starts life or begins life as a particular thing, it is that thing when it first starts to exist.
- stepfamily — a family composed of a parent, a stepparent, and a child or children by a previous marriage.
- subfascial — a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.
- sufflation — to inflate.
- sulfanilyl — containing the sulfanilyl group.
- t-bar lift — a ski lift having an upside-down T -shaped bar against which two skiers may lean while being pulled uphill.
- talking of — You can use the expression talking of to introduce a new topic that you want to discuss, and to link it to something that has already been mentioned.
- tax relief — finance: reduction
- taxflation — bracket creep.
- tea family — the plant family Theaceae, characterized by shrubs and trees having simple, alternate leaves, often showy flowers, and capsular, berrylike, or dry fruit, and including the camellia, franklinia, and tea.
- thalliform — resembling a thallus
- tidal flat — tideland that is flat or nearly flat and often muddy or marshy.
- trifoliate — having three leaflets, lobes, or foils; trefoil.
- twin falls — a city in S Idaho.