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.