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

  • lifesaving — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
  • lifestream — a record of all of one's online content and social interactions, presented chronologically on a single website: I just added Twitter to my lifestream.
  • lightfaces — Plural form of lightface.
  • loose-leaf — (of a book, notebook, etc.) consisting of individual leaves held in a binder (loose-leaf binder) as by rings that open and close, in such a way as to allow their removal, return, or replacement without tearing.
  • love feast — (among the early Christians) a meal eaten in token of brotherly love and charity; agape.
  • luciferase — (enzyme) Any one of a group of enzymes that produce bioluminescence by oxidizing luciferin.
  • lust after — desire sexually
  • mala fides — bad faith; intent to cheat or deceive. Compare bona fides (def 1).
  • malfeasant — the performance by a public official of an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law; wrongdoing (used especially of an act in violation of a public trust). Compare misfeasance (def 2), nonfeasance.
  • manfulness — The state of being manful.
  • manifestly — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
  • marshfield — a city in SE Massachusetts.
  • news flash — flash (def 6).
  • offsetable — able to balance, counteract, or compensate for something else
  • open flash — a photographic technique employing a flash fired while the camera shutter is held open.
  • oriflammes — Plural form of oriflamme.
  • paddlefish — a large ganoid fish, Polyodon spathula, of the Mississippi River and its larger tributaries, having a long, flat, paddlelike snout.
  • pausefully — in a pauseful manner
  • persiflage — light, bantering talk or writing.
  • persulfate — a salt of persulfuric acid, as potassium persulfate, K 2 S 2 O 5 or K 2 S 2 O 8 .
  • play false — not true or correct; erroneous: a false statement.
  • qualifiers — Plural form of qualifier.
  • reclassify — to classify anew.
  • relay fast — (esp in India) a form of protest in which a number of persons go without food by turns
  • rijsttafel — an Indonesian meal consisting of rice served with a large array of small dishes of meat, poultry, seafood, vegetables, and condiments.
  • ring false — to give the impression of being false
  • saliferous — containing or producing salt: saliferous strata.
  • salifiable — to form into a salt, as by chemical combination.
  • salverform — (of the corolla of the phlox and certain other flowers) consisting of a narrow tube with flat spreading terminal petals
  • san felipe — a city in NE Venezuela, on the Orinoco River.
  • san rafael — a city in W Argentina.
  • satchelful — the amount a satchel will hold
  • scaffolded — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
  • scale leaf — a scalelike leaf, as a bud scale or certain bracts.
  • schefflera — any of various tropical trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Schefflera, of the ginseng family, having glossy, palmately compound leaves and often cultivated as a houseplant.
  • self-abuse — reproach or blame of oneself.
  • self-aware — having knowledge; conscious; cognizant: aware of danger.
  • self-belay — a method of preventing oneself from falling by using a controlled rope
  • self-blame — to hold responsible; find fault with; censure: I don't blame you for leaving him.
  • self-guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
  • self-image — the idea, conception, or mental image one has of oneself.
  • self-named — a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
  • self-paced — (of an educational system, course, etc.) done or designed to be accomplished at the student's own speed: self-paced instruction.
  • sellafield — the site of an atomic power station and nuclear reprocessing plant in NW England, in W Cumbria
  • semi-final — competition round that decides finalists
  • semifeudal — partly feudal
  • semiformal — partly formal; containing some formal elements: a semiformal occasion; semiformal attire.
  • senna leaf — the dried leaflets of any of these plants, used as a cathartic and laxative
  • shamefully — causing shame: shameful behavior.
  • shelf mark — a symbol indicating the location of a work on a shelf.
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