10-letter words containing s, f, e
- over-focus — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- 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).
- 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
- 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.
- persiflage — light, bantering talk or writing.
- persifleur — a person who is fond of persiflage
- persulfate — a salt of persulfuric acid, as potassium persulfate, K 2 S 2 O 5 or K 2 S 2 O 8 .
- piliferous — having or producing hair.
- pissed off — angry or annoyed.
- pittsfield — a city in W Massachusetts.
- play false — not true or correct; erroneous: a false statement.
- 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
- 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
- puff paste — a rich dough for making puff pastry.
- purposeful — having a purpose.
- qualifiers — Plural form of qualifier.
- quantifies — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
- 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.
- reafforest — to replant (an area that was formerly forested)
- reclassify — to classify anew.
- red fescue — a grass, Festuca rubra, of the meadows of the North Temperate Zone, having green, reddish, or bluish-green flower clusters.
- redshifted — (of radiation) having undergone a redshift.
- refinisher — a person who professionally refinishes or restores buildings or antique furniture
- reforecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- 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
- relay fast — (esp in India) a form of protest in which a number of persons go without food by turns