10-letter words containing s, f, e, r, i
- ossiferous — containing bones, especially fossil bones: ossiferous caves and rock beds.
- outfitters — Plural form of outfitter.
- oysterfish — the oyster toadfish. See under toadfish (def 1).
- perfidious — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- persiflage — light, bantering talk or writing.
- persifleur — a person who is fond of persiflage
- piliferous — having or producing hair.
- pomiferous — bearing pomes or pomelike fruits.
- poriferans — an animal phylum comprising the sponges.
- poriferous — bearing or having pores.
- prefascist — relating to fascist leanings before Fascism was founded in 1919
- presignify — to signify or indicate beforehand; foretell.
- prespecify — to specify in advance
- priestfish — blue rockfish.
- 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
- qualifiers — Plural form of qualifier.
- quasi-free — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- queer fish — strange person
- quiverfuls — Plural form of quiverful.
- rafinesque — Constantine Samuel, 1783–1840, U.S. naturalist, born in Turkey.
- rainforest — a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.
- reclassify — to classify anew.
- redshifted — (of radiation) having undergone a redshift.
- refinisher — a person who professionally refinishes or restores buildings or antique furniture
- refreshing — having the power to restore freshness, vitality, energy, etc.: a refreshing nap.
- refugeeism — a person who flees for refuge or safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political upheaval, war, etc.
- refuse bin — a bin for the disposal of rubbish and waste
- reliefless — lacking or deprived of relief
- remanifest — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- 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.
- rift-sawed — (of lumber) sawed radially so that the broader sides of the boards or timbers are approximately perpendicular to the annual rings.
- 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
- river fish — a freshwater fish
- rudderfish — any of various fishes having the habit of following behind ships, as a pilot fish.
- sacrificed — the offering of animal, plant, or human life or of some material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage.
- sacrificer — the offering of animal, plant, or human life or of some material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage.
- saliferous — containing or producing salt: saliferous strata.
- sanctifier — to make holy; set apart as sacred; consecrate.
- sanforized — (of a fabric) preshrunk using a patented process
- sans serif — a style of monotonal type without serifs.
- sans-serif — a style of monotonal type without serifs.
- saponifier — to convert (a fat) into soap by treating with an alkali.
- satisfiers — to fulfill the desires, expectations, needs, or demands of (a person, the mind, etc.); give full contentment to: The hearty meal satisfied him.
- schrieffer — John Robert, born 1931, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1972.