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10-letter words containing o, s, l, f, i

  • frost boil — frost heave.
  • frost line — the maximum depth at which soil is frozen.
  • fuliginous — sooty; smoky: the fuliginous air hanging over an industrial city.
  • fusionless — without fusion
  • goldfields — any of several Californian, composite herbs of the genus Lasthenia, having yellow flowers.
  • goldfishes — Plural form of goldfish.
  • golf links — the ground or course over which golf is played. A standard full-scale golf course has 125 to 175 acres (51 to 71 hectares), usually with 18 holes varying from 100 to 650 yards (91 to 594 meters) in length from tee to cup.
  • horseflies — Plural form of horsefly.
  • hosts file — (networking)   A text file on a networked computer used to associate host names with IP addresses. A hosts file contains lines consisting of whitespace-separated fields giving an IP address followed by list of host names or aliases associated with that address. The name resolution library software can use this file to look up the IP address for a host name. The hosts file is "/etc/hosts" on Unix and "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts" or "lmhosts" on Microsoft Windows, In most cases, hosts files have now been almost entirely replaced by DNS, in which distributed servers provide the same information. A hosts file can still be used to override DNS for testing purposes or other special situations.
  • hounsfield — ˈGodfrey Newˌbold (ˈnuˌboʊld ) ; no̅oˈbōldˌ) 1919-2004; Brit. engineer & inventor: developed the CAT scanner
  • houseflies — Plural form of housefly.
  • hoverflies — Plural form of hoverfly.
  • hydrofoils — Plural form of hydrofoil.
  • infamously — having an extremely bad reputation: an infamous city.
  • inflations — Plural form of inflation.
  • infoldings — Plural form of infolding.
  • infusorial — pertaining to, containing, or consisting of infusorians: infusorial earth.
  • isoflavone — a phytoestrogen produced chiefly by plants of the legume family, especially soybeans, potentially useful in lowering cholesterol and in treating some cancers and menopausal symptoms.
  • isoflurane — a volatile, halogenated ether, C 3 H 2 ClF 5 O, used as a general anesthetic in surgery.
  • laniferous — wool-bearing: sheep and other laniferous animals.
  • leitmotifs — Plural form of leitmotif.
  • lemon fish — the cobia.
  • life story — an account of all the events that happened to someone during their life
  • lipofuscin — any of several brown pigments similar to melanin that accumulate in animal cells with age and are products of oxidation of lipids and lipoproteins.
  • loan-shift — change or extension of the meaning of a word through the influence of a foreign word, as in the application in English of the meaning “profession” to the word calling through the influence of Latin vocātio.
  • luciferous — bringing or providing light.
  • lucifugous — Shunning the light.
  • mesofossil — A fossil of a small part of a plant, such as a fruit, leaf or seed.
  • microfilms — Plural form of microfilm.
  • mistflower — a North American composite plant, Eupatorium coelestinum, having heads of blue flowers.
  • multifoils — Plural form of multifoil.
  • myofascial — Of or relating to the layer of loose tissue (fascia) surrounding the muscle tissues.
  • myofibrils — Plural form of myofibril.
  • nanofossil — A nanosized fossil.
  • non-fiscal — of or relating to the public treasury or revenues: fiscal policies.
  • nonsulfide — (of minerals) not containing a sulfide.
  • off limits — forbidden to be patronized, frequented, used, etc., by certain persons: The tavern is off-limits to soldiers.
  • off-island — located or tending away from the shore of an island: an off-island current.
  • off-limits — forbidden to be patronized, frequented, used, etc., by certain persons: The tavern is off-limits to soldiers.
  • offensible — (obsolete) That may give offense.
  • old fustic — a large tropical American moraceous tree, Chlorophora tinctoria
  • oleiferous — giving rise to oil, as certain seeds or hypha.
  • one's fill — the quantity needed to satisfy one
  • oriflammes — Plural form of oriflamme.
  • oslo fiord — an inlet of the Skagerrak, in SE Norway. 75 miles (120 km) long.
  • oxysulfide — a sulfide in which part of the sulfur is replaced by oxygen.
  • passiflora — a plant of the genus Passiflora
  • piliferous — having or producing hair.
  • pilot fish — a small, marine fish, Naucrates ductor, often swimming with sharks.
  • pilot-fish — a small, marine fish, Naucrates ductor, often swimming with sharks.
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