10-letter words containing s, e, o, f
- over-fussy — excessively busy with trifles; anxious or particular about petty details.
- overdrafts — Plural form of overdraft.
- oxysulfide — a sulfide in which part of the sulfur is replaced by oxygen.
- oysterfish — the oyster toadfish. See under toadfish (def 1).
- peoplesoft — (application, company) A company selling web-based ERP systems. Originally PeopleSoft supplied human resource management systems, they now provide financial data management, customer relationship management, supply chain management, workforce management, and data analytics systems.
- perfidious — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- perforatus — a muscle that bends a digit
- permafrost — (in arctic or subarctic regions) perennially frozen subsoil.
- piliferous — having or producing hair.
- pissed off — angry or annoyed.
- pomiferous — bearing pomes or pomelike fruits.
- pontifices — plural of pontifex.
- poriferans — an animal phylum comprising the sponges.
- poriferous — bearing or having pores.
- postfreeze — taking place after a freeze
- professing — to lay claim to, often insincerely; pretend to: He professed extreme regret.
- profession — a vocation requiring knowledge of some department of learning or science: the profession of teaching. Compare learned profession.
- profitless — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
- profitwise — from the point of view of profit
- purposeful — having a purpose.
- 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.
- remorseful — full of remorse.
- resolidify — to (cause to) become solid again
- rifle shot — sound of shotgun fire
- riflescope — a telescopic sight mounted on top of a rifle that helps to improve one's aim by magnifying and pinpointing a target.
- roast beef — cow's meat cooked in oven
- roof space — the attic space inside a roof
- rose fever — a form of hay fever caused by the inhalation of rose pollen, characterized by nasal discharge and lacrimation.
- 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.
- screen off — If part of a room or area is screened off, it is made into a separate area, using a screen.
- sebiferous — producing or carrying a fatty, oily, or waxlike substance
- securiform — (of plants) having the shape of an axe
- self-doubt — lack of confidence in the reliability of one's own motives, personality, thought, etc.
- self-worth — the sense of one's own value or worth as a person; self-esteem; self-respect.
- self-wrong — wrong done to oneself.
- semiformal — partly formal; containing some formal elements: a semiformal occasion; semiformal attire.
- semifreddo — a partially frozen Italian dessert similar to ice cream
- send forth — to be a source of; cause to appear; give out or forth; produce, emit, utter, etc.
- setiferous — having setae or bristles.
- settle for — to appoint, fix, or resolve definitely and conclusively; agree upon (as time, price, or conditions).
- sex factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
- sheep-fold — an enclosure for sheep.