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10-letter words containing l, a, f, o, e

  • on welfare — the good fortune, health, happiness, prosperity, etc., of a person, group, or organization; well-being: to look after a child's welfare; the physical or moral welfare of society.
  • open flash — a photographic technique employing a flash fired while the camera shutter is held open.
  • oriflammes — Plural form of oriflamme.
  • other half — the people of an economic class clearly different from one's own or from that to which reference is being made: a glimpse of how the other half lives.
  • outflanked — Simple past tense and past participle of outflank.
  • overfacile — excessively facile
  • perfoliate — having the stem apparently passing through the leaf, owing to congenital union of the basal edges of the leaf round the stem.
  • playfellow — a playmate.
  • pomace fly — vinegar fly.
  • prefrontal — anterior to, situated in, or pertaining to the anterior part of a frontal structure.
  • profitable — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
  • profligate — utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
  • quatrefoil — a leaf composed of four leaflets.
  • rattle off — If you rattle off something, you say it or do it very quickly and without much effort.
  • ray floret — one of the marginal florets surrounding the disk of tubular florets in the flower heads of certain composite plants, as the daisy.
  • ray flower — one of the marginal florets surrounding the disk of tubular florets in the flower heads of certain composite plants, as the daisy.
  • reformable — the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.: social reform; spelling reform.
  • roof panel — The roof panel is the section of material, usually sheet metal, that forms the roof of a vehicle.
  • royal fern — a coarse fern, Osmunda regalis, having tall, upright fronds.
  • saliferous — containing or producing salt: saliferous strata.
  • salverform — (of the corolla of the phlox and certain other flowers) consisting of a narrow tube with flat spreading terminal petals
  • scaffolded — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
  • semiformal — partly formal; containing some formal elements: a semiformal occasion; semiformal attire.
  • sleep sofa — a sofa that can be used as a bed; sofa bed.
  • soapflakes — small particles of solid soap or detergent used for washing clothes
  • soft scale — any of numerous homopterous insect pests of the family Coccidae, as leafhoppers, aphids, and whiteflies, that are destructive to crops, shade and fruit trees, and various houseplants.
  • soft-pedal — to use the soft pedal.
  • softballer — a person who plays or is an enthusiast of softball.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • streamflow — the water that flows in a specific stream site, especially its volume and rate of flow.
  • tanglefoot — a potent alcoholic drink
  • tolnaftate — an antifungal substance, C 19 H 17 NOS, used topically in the treatment of certain superficial fungal skin infections, as athlete's foot.
  • trifoliate — having three leaflets, lobes, or foils; trefoil.
  • unfoliated — shaped like a leaf or leaves: foliated ornaments.
  • unfordable — (of a river, flood, stream, etc) not able to be forded
  • unifoliate — having only one leaf.
  • viola clef — alto clef.
  • volte-face — a turnabout, especially a reversal of opinion or policy.
  • wallflower — a person who, because of shyness, unpopularity, or lack of a partner, remains at the side at a party or dance.
  • waterflood — (in the petroleum industry) a method of secondary recovery whereby water is pumped into reservoir rock to force out oil that has ceased to flow under its own pressure.
  • wax flower — Madagascar jasmine.
  • wolframate — tungstate.
  • wolframite — a mineral, iron manganese tungstate, (Fe,Mn)WO 4 , occurring in heavy grayish-black to brownish-black tabular or bladed crystals: an important ore of tungsten.
  • wolfsbanes — Plural form of wolfsbane.
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