10-letter words containing s, f, e
- shelf life — the term or period during which a stored commodity remains effective, useful, or suitable for consumption: Many medicines have a very short shelf life.
- shelf mark — a symbol indicating the location of a work on a shelf.
- shellproof — protected against the explosive effect of shells or bombs.
- shipfitter — a person who forms plates, shapes, etc., of ship according to plans, patterns, or molds.
- shit-faced — very drunk.
- shopfitter — a worker who makes and installs fittings for commercial premises
- shoplifter — a person who steals goods from the shelves or displays of a retail store while posing as a customer.
- shorefront — land along a shore.
- short fuse — a quick temper: A person with a short fuse has to be handled diplomatically.
- short-life — not designed to last
- siegecraft — the science or skill of conducting a siege
- silver fir — a coniferous tree, Abies alba, native to Europe, the young branches of which are covered with grayish fuzz.
- silver fox — a red fox in the color phase in which the fur is black with silver-gray ends on the longer hairs.
- silverfish — a white or silvery goldfish, Carassius auratus.
- simferopol — a city in S Ukraine, on the S Crimean Peninsula.
- simplified — to make less complex or complicated; make plainer or easier: to simplify a problem.
- sinfulness — characterized by, guilty of, or full of sin; wicked: a sinful life.
- six-footer — a person who is roughly six feet tall.
- sixty-five — a cardinal number, 60 plus 5.
- skew field — a ring in which the equations ax = b and xa = b have solutions for x.
- sleep sofa — a sofa that can be used as a bed; sofa bed.
- slumberful — characterized by sleep or slumber
- smithfield — a town in N Rhode Island.
- smoke-free — without any smoke from cigarettes, etc
- smokeproof — that cannot be penetrated by smoke: a fireproof and smokeproof compartment.
- snake foot — an elongated foot or short leg, as to a pedestal table, having the form of an ogee tangent to the floor surface.
- snow fence — a barrier erected on the windward side of a road, house, barn, etc., serving as a protection from drifting snow.
- soapflakes — small particles of solid soap or detergent used for washing clothes
- soft money — money contributed to a political candidate or party that is not subject to federal regulations.
- soft paste — any of a variety of artificial porcelains, usually incorporating glass or glass ingredients.
- soft power — the ability to achieve one's goals without force, esp by diplomacy, persuasion, etc
- 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 serve — frozen custard
- soft steel — mild steel.
- 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.
- soft-shell — Also, soft-shelled. having a soft, flexible, or fragile shell, as a crab that has recently molted.
- softballer — a person who plays or is an enthusiast of softball.
- softheaded — stupid or foolish
- solid fuel — Solid fuel is fuel such as coal or wood, that is solid rather than liquid or gas.
- solidified — to make solid; make into a hard or compact mass; change from a liquid or gaseous to a solid form.
- solidifies — to make solid; make into a hard or compact mass; change from a liquid or gaseous to a solid form.
- sommerfeld — Arnold (Johannes Wilhelm) [ahr-nawlt-yoh-hahn-uh s-vil-helm] /ˈɑr nɔlt yoʊˈhɑn əsˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1868–1951, German physicist.
- soniferous — conveying or producing sound.
- sound file — an audio file that can be played by a computer or other electronic device
- sour-faced — bad-tempered and unfriendly
- southfield — a city in SE Michigan, W of Detroit.
- spacecraft — a vehicle designed for travel or operation in space beyond the earth's atmosphere or in orbit around the earth.
- spade foot — a square foot, tapering toward its bottom.
- spec cfp92 — (benchmark) A benchmark suite from SPEC containing 14 programs performing floating-point computations. 12 are written in Fortran and two in C. They can be used to estimate the performance of CPU, memory system, and compiler code generation. The individual programs are Circuit Design, Simulation (2x), Quantum Chemistry (3x), Electromagnetism, Geometric Translation, Optics, Robotics, Medical Simulation, Quantum Physics, Astrophysics, NASA Kernels. The benchmark suite can be used either for speed measurement, resulting in SPEC ratios, or for throughput measurement, resulting in SPEC rates