8-letter words containing n, s, f, e
- on-shelf — On-shelf goods are available now and displayed for sale.
- refasten — to fasten again
- refinish — to give a new surface to (wood, furniture, etc.).
- refrains — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
- refusing — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
- refusion — a new or further fusion
- reinfuse — to infuse again
- resinify — to convert into a resin.
- resoften — to make or become soft again
- safeness — secure from liability to harm, injury, danger, or risk: a safe place.
- santa fé — a city in E Argentina.
- scan-edf — (storage, algorithm) A variation of the Scan disk aceess algorithm for use in a real-time environment where, in general, requests are served according to Earliest Deadline First. If two requests share the same deadline, they may be reorganised according to Scan. A typical example is a video server that retrieves video data from a hard disk. The playback of a video impose tight real-time constraints but if the server retrieves data once every second for each video channel, Scan-EDF can be applied, reducing the seek overhead.
- scentful — full of scent or odour; fragrant
- seafront — an area, including buildings, along the edge of the sea; waterfront.
- selfness — selfhood.
- send for — to cause, permit, or enable to go: to send a messenger; They sent their son to college.
- send off — a demonstration of good wishes for a person setting out on a trip, career, or other venture: They gave him a rousing send-off at the pier.
- send-off — a demonstration of good wishes for a person setting out on a trip, career, or other venture: They gave him a rousing send-off at the pier.
- senseful — full of reasonable sense; sound; judicious.
- shinleaf — a North American plant, Pyrola elliptica, having leaves used formerly for shinplasters.
- signifie — (in linguistics) the signified.
- sinified — to Sinicize.
- snakefly — any neuropterous insect of the family Raphidiidae, of western North America, having an elongated prothorax resembling a neck.
- sneffels — Mount, a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,150 feet (4313 meters).
- sniffles — to sniff repeatedly, as from a head cold or in repressing tears: She sniffled woefully.
- snuffers — an instrument resembling a pair of scissors for trimming the wick or extinguishing the flame of a candle
- softener — Chemistry. any admixture to a substance for promoting or increasing its softness, smoothness, or plasticity. water softener.
- softness — yielding readily to touch or pressure; easily penetrated, divided, or changed in shape; not hard or stiff: a soft pillow.
- songfest — an informal, often spontaneous gathering at which people sing folk songs, popular ballads, etc.
- spinifex — any of several Australian grasses of the genera Spinifex, Plectrachne, or Triodia, having spiny seeds and stiff, sharp-pointed leaves that grow in dense masses.
- stefanie — a female given name.
- steffens — (Joseph) Lincoln, 1866–1936, U.S. author, journalist, and editor.
- stiffens — to make stiff.
- stonefly — any of numerous dull-colored primitive aquatic insects of the order Plecoptera, having a distinctive flattened body shape: a major food source for game fish, especially bass and trout, which makes them popular as models for fishing flies.
- superfan — a very or extremely devoted fan
- synfuels — synthetic fuel.
- the fens — a flat low-lying area of E England, west and south of the Wash: consisted of marshes until reclaimed in the 17th to 19th centuries
- transfer — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- unfasten — to release from or as from fastenings; detach.
- unfished — not used for fishing
- unsafely — secure from liability to harm, injury, danger, or risk: a safe place.
- unsafety — unsafe state or condition; exposure to danger or risk; insecurity.
- unsifted — to separate and retain the coarse parts of (flour, ashes, etc.) with a sieve.
- unuseful — being of use or service; serving some purpose; advantageous, helpful, or of good effect: a useful member of society.
- wonkfest — A self-congratulatory meeting of wonks (overly studious individuals).