11-letter words containing i, n, f, o, s
- social fund — (in Britain) a social security fund from which loans or payments may be made to people in cases of extreme need
- soft drinks — A soft drink is a cold, nonalcoholic drink such as lemonade or fruit juice, or a carbonated drink.
- soft option — If you take the soft option, you do the thing that is easiest or least likely to cause trouble in a particular situation.
- soft pencil — a type of pencil that contains a thicker, oilier and darker form of graphite
- soft-finned — having fins supported by articulated rays rather than by spines, as a malacopterygian.
- somniferous — bringing or inducing sleep, as drugs or influences.
- sonofabitch — an abusive term of address or of description
- sound shift — a gradual alteration or series of alterations in the pronunciation of a set of sounds, esp of vowels
- spiniferous — (esp of plants) bearing spines or thorns
- spot fixing — the act of deliberately engineering an outcome within a sporting contest without attempting to alter the outcome of the contest itself
- stagflation — an inflationary period accompanied by rising unemployment and lack of growth in consumer demand and business activity.
- standoffish — somewhat aloof or reserved; cold and unfriendly.
- stone fruit — a fruit with a stone or hard endocarp, as a peach or plum; drupe.
- strife-torn — divided by violent conflict or dissent
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- suffixation — Grammar. an affix that follows the element to which it is added, as -ly in kindly.
- suffocation — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- sulfonamide — sulfa drug.
- sulfonation — the process of attaching the sulfonic acid group, –SO 3 H, directly to carbon in an organic compound.
- sulfuration — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur, the fumes of burning sulfur, etc.
- surgeonfish — any tropical, coral-reef fish of the family Acanthuridae, with one or more sharp spines near the base of the tail fin.
- tanniferous — containing much tannin; yielding tannin.
- tischendorf — Lobegott Friedrich Konstantin von [loh-buh-gawt free-drikh kawn-stahn-teen fuh n] /ˈloʊ bəˌgɔt ˈfri drɪx ˌkɔn stɑnˈtin fən/ (Show IPA), 1815–74, German Biblical critic.
- toffishness — the quality or state of being toffish
- transfixion — to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.
- transfusion — the act or process of transfusing.
- unfashioned — not fashioned or made; not formed
- unfrivolous — not frivolous
- unoffensive — causing resentful displeasure; highly irritating, angering, or annoying: offensive television commercials.
- unofficious — objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome: an officious person.
- unsoftening — not softening
- uriniferous — conveying urine.
- wolfishness — The quality of being wolfish.
- zinciferous — yielding or containing zinc.