10-letter words containing s, e, a, f, o
- poriferans — an animal phylum comprising the sponges.
- rainforest — a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.
- reafforest — to replant (an area that was formerly forested)
- reforecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- roast beef — cow's meat cooked in oven
- roof space — the attic space inside a roof
- safe house — a dwelling or building whose conventional appearance makes it a safe or inconspicuous place for hiding, taking refuge, or carrying on clandestine activities.
- sainte foy — a SW suburb of Quebec, on the St Lawrence River. Pop: 72 547 (2001)
- saliferous — containing or producing salt: saliferous strata.
- salverform — (of the corolla of the phlox and certain other flowers) consisting of a narrow tube with flat spreading terminal petals
- sanforized — (of a fabric) preshrunk using a patented process
- saponifier — to convert (a fat) into soap by treating with an alkali.
- scaffolded — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
- semiformal — partly formal; containing some formal elements: a semiformal occasion; semiformal attire.
- sex factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
- sleep sofa — a sofa that can be used as a bed; sofa bed.
- snake foot — an elongated foot or short leg, as to a pedestal table, having the form of an ogee tangent to the floor surface.
- soapflakes — small particles of solid soap or detergent used for washing clothes
- soft paste — any of a variety of artificial porcelains, usually incorporating glass or glass ingredients.
- soft scale — any of numerous homopterous insect pests of the family Coccidae, as leafhoppers, aphids, and whiteflies, that are destructive to crops, shade and fruit trees, and various houseplants.
- soft wheat — a wheat characterized by soft, starchy kernels that yield a flour used in making pastry, breakfast cereals, etc.
- soft-pedal — to use the soft pedal.
- softballer — a person who plays or is an enthusiast of softball.
- softheaded — stupid or foolish
- sour-faced — bad-tempered and unfriendly
- spade foot — a square foot, tapering toward its bottom.
- square off — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- stableford — a scoring system in which points are awarded according to the number of strokes taken at each hole, whereby a hole completed in one stroke over par counts as one point, a hole completed in level par counts as two points, etc
- starflower — any of several plants having starlike flowers, as the star-of-Bethlehem or a plant belonging to the genus Trientalis of the primrose family.
- stefansson — Vilhjalmur [vil-hyoul-mer] /ˈvɪlˌhyaʊl mər/ (Show IPA), 1879–1962, U.S. arctic explorer and author, born in Canada.
- stone deaf — totally deaf.
- stone face — living stones.
- stone-deaf — totally deaf.
- stop-frame — Also called stop frame. the process of filming puppets and other objects one frame at a time while incrementally moving or modifying them, giving the illusion of lifelike motion when the captured film frames are viewed in rapid sequence (often used attributively): stop-motion animation; a stop-motion film.
- streamflow — the water that flows in a specific stream site, especially its volume and rate of flow.
- tammerfors — Swedish name of Tampere.
- task force — Navy, Military. a temporary grouping of units under one commander, formed for the purpose of carrying out a specific operation or mission.
- tortfeasor — a person who commits a tort.
- transferor — a person who makes a transfer, as of property.
- tuffaceous — a fragmental rock consisting of the smaller kinds of volcanic detritus, as ash or cinder, usually more or less stratified.
- unforecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- unforsaken — past participle of forsake.
- wavefronts — Plural form of wavefront.
- west fargo — a city in SE North Dakota: suburb of Fargo.
- wolfsbanes — Plural form of wolfsbane.
- xenografts — Plural form of xenograft.