11-letter words containing n, s, f
- stiffnesses — rigid or firm; difficult or impossible to bend or flex: a stiff collar.
- stone fruit — a fruit with a stone or hard endocarp, as a peach or plum; drupe.
- stone-faced — having a rigid, expressionless face.
- stony-faced — having a rigid, expressionless face.
- store front — Store fronts are the windows of stores that can be looked into from the street, often displaying the types of product each store sells.
- strand wolf — brown hyena.
- strengthful — full of strength, strong
- strife-torn — divided by violent conflict or dissent
- strike fund — an amount of money reserved by a union to make payments to striking works should a strike occur
- stud muffin — a sexually attractive young man
- stultifying — to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous.
- stunt flier — someone who performs stunts in an aeroplane, such as special turns, etc, in the air
- subaffluent — between poor and affluent
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- subfreezing — below the freezing point.
- subinfluent — an organism that has a lesser effect than an influent on the ecological processes within a community.
- sufficiency — the state or fact of being sufficient; adequacy.
- 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.
- sunk relief — cavo-relievo.
- superinfect — to infect further with an additional infection
- superrefine — to refine to an advanced degree
- surfcasting — the act, technique, or sport of fishing by casting from the shoreline into the sea, usually using heavy-duty tackle.
- surgeonfish — any tropical, coral-reef fish of the family Acanthuridae, with one or more sharp spines near the base of the tail fin.
- suspenseful — a state or condition of mental uncertainty or excitement, as in awaiting a decision or outcome, usually accompanied by a degree of apprehension or anxiety.
- swell front — a horizontally convex front, as of a chest of drawers.
- swine fever — hog cholera.
- swing shift — a work shift in industry from midafternoon until midnight.
- tactfulness — having or manifesting tact: a tactful person; a tactful reply.
- tanniferous — containing much tannin; yielding tannin.
- tea infuser — mesh ball for straining tea leaves
- teaspoonful — the amount a teaspoon can hold.
- the offense — the team that has possession of the ball
- thornproofs — garments that resist penetration by thorns
- thriftiness — practicing thrift or economical management; frugal: a thrifty shopper.
- 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
- transferase — any of the class of enzymes, as the transaminases that catalyze the transfer of an organic group from one compound to another.
- transferral — transference; transfer.
- transferred — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- transferrin — a plasma glycoprotein that transports dietary iron to the liver, spleen, and bone marrow.
- transfigure — to change in outward form or appearance; transform.
- transfinite — going beyond or surpassing the finite.
- transfixing — to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.
- transfixion — to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.
- transformed — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- transformer — a person or thing that transforms.