11-letter words containing s, f, e, r, i
- millefleurs — A pattern of flowers and leaves used in tapestry, on porcelain, or in other decorative items.
- misfeatured — Having ugly or misshapen features.
- misfortuned — (archaic) unlucky, unfortunate.
- misfortunes — adverse fortune; bad luck.
- misinformed — to give false or misleading information to.
- mortiferous — deadly; fatal.
- nefariously — extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous: a nefarious plot.
- odoriferous — yielding or diffusing an odor.
- offertories — Plural form of offertory.
- officership — a person who holds a position of rank or authority in the army, navy, air force, or any similar organization, especially one who holds a commission.
- olfactories — of or relating to the sense of smell: olfactory organs.
- outfielders — Plural form of outfielder.
- overfishing — to fish (an area) excessively; to exhaust the supply of usable fish in (certain waters): Scientists are concerned that fishing boats may overfish our coastal waters.
- ovuliferous — holding ovules
- oxfordshire — a county in S England. 1008 sq. mi. (2610 sq. km).
- ozoniferous — containing ozone.
- passeriform — of or relating to the order Passeriformes; passerine.
- personified — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- personifies — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- persulfuric — denoting a type of acid
- pestiferous — bringing or bearing disease.
- petit fours — a small teacake, variously frosted and decorated.
- pierrefonds — a former city in S Quebec, Canada, now part of Montreal.
- prefectship — the position of, or period served as, a prefect
- prefinished — coated or treated before use or sale: prefinished wood.
- presanctify — to sanctify ahead of an event
- priestcraft — the training, knowledge, and abilities necessary to a priest.
- prime focus — the focal point of the objective lens or primary mirror of a telescope
- profeminist — advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.
- profusively — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- proliferous — proliferating.
- quantifiers — Logic. an expression, as “all” or “some,” that indicates the quantity of a proposition. Compare existential quantifier, universal quantifier.
- quatrefoils — Plural form of quatrefoil.
- rain forest — a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.
- rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
- rediffusion — act of diffusing; state of being diffused.
- refinedness — the quality or state of being refined; refinement
- reflections — thoughts, esp careful or long-considered ones
- refurbisher — a person who refurbishes
- resign-from — to give up an office or position, often formally (often followed by from): to resign from the presidency.
- riefenstahl — Leni [ley-nee] /ˈleɪ ni/ (Show IPA), 1902–2003, German film director.
- rifled slug — a shotgun projectile with helical grooves on its sides for imparting a spin to it when it is fired through the smooth bore of the shotgun.
- roosterfish — a large, edible fish, Nematistius pectoralis, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Pacific Ocean, having the first dorsal fin composed of brightly colored filamentous rays.
- rose family — the plant family Rosaceae, characterized by trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants having compound or simple leaves with stipules, flowers typically with five sepals and five petals, and fruit in a variety of forms, many of which are fleshy and edible, and including the almond, apple, apricot, blackberry, cherry, cinquefoil, hawthorn, peach, pear, plum, raspberry, rose, spirea, and strawberry.
- safe period — an interval of the menstrual cycle when fertilization is considered to be least likely, usually a number of days prior and subsequent to the onset of menstruation.
- satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- schweinfurt — a city in N Bavaria, in S central Germany, on the Main River.
- scruffiness — the state of being unkempt or shabby
- self-binder — binder (def 5b).
- self-desire — to wish or long for; crave; want.