10-letter words containing s, f, e
- speedfreak — an addict or habitual user of amphetamines, methamphetamines, or similar stimulating drugs.
- speedfully — in a quick or effective manner
- spent fuel — nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in a nuclear reactor to the point where it is no longer useful in sustaining a nuclear reaction
- spider fly — an artificial fly having a hackle body, little or no tail, no wings, and unusually long legs, dressed to resemble a spider.
- spiflicate — to destroy; annihilate
- splay-feet — a broad, flat foot, especially one turned outward.
- spoken for — engaged, reserved, or allocated
- sponge off — any aquatic, chiefly marine animal of the phylum Porifera, having a porous structure and usually a horny, siliceous or calcareous internal skeleton or framework, occurring in large, sessile colonies.
- spoon-feed — to cause to be spoon-fed.
- spoylefull — plundering
- square off — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- stable fly — a blood-sucking muscid fly, Stomoxys calcitrans, that attacks man and domestic animals
- stableford — a scoring system in which points are awarded according to the number of strokes taken at each hole, whereby a hole completed in one stroke over par counts as one point, a hole completed in level par counts as two points, etc
- staff-tree — any of a genus (Celastrus) of shrubby, usually climbing, plants of the staff-tree family, growing in Asia, Australia, and North America, including bittersweet
- staffrider — a person who illegally rides on the outside of a suburban train
- stage left — Stage left is the left side of the stage for an actor who is standing facing the audience.
- stagecraft — skill in or the art of writing, adapting, or staging plays.
- stall-feed — to keep and feed (an animal) in a stall.
- star facet — (in a brilliant) any of the eight small facets of the crown immediately below the table.
- starfished — lying with arms and legs outstretched; spread-eagled
- starflower — any of several plants having starlike flowers, as the star-of-Bethlehem or a plant belonging to the genus Trientalis of the primrose family.
- starfucker — a person who seeks to have sexual relations with celebrities; groupie
- start life — If something starts life or begins life as a particular thing, it is that thing when it first starts to exist.
- statecraft — the art of government and diplomacy.
- stealthful — secret, clandestine, or surreptitious procedure.
- stefansson — Vilhjalmur [vil-hyoul-mer] /ˈvɪlˌhyaʊl mər/ (Show IPA), 1879–1962, U.S. arctic explorer and author, born in Canada.
- stelliform — star-shaped.
- stepfamily — a family composed of a parent, a stepparent, and a child or children by a previous marriage.
- stepfather — the husband of one's mother by a later marriage.
- stiffening — the act or process of becoming stiff
- still life — a representation chiefly of inanimate objects, as a painting of a bowl of fruit.
- stir-fried — stir-fried.
- stone deaf — totally deaf.
- stone face — living stones.
- stone-deaf — totally deaf.
- stop-frame — Also called stop frame. the process of filming puppets and other objects one frame at a time while incrementally moving or modifying them, giving the illusion of lifelike motion when the captured film frames are viewed in rapid sequence (often used attributively): stop-motion animation; a stop-motion film.
- storefront — the side of a store facing a street, usually containing display windows.
- stouthrief — theft using force or violence
- stratified — to form or place in strata or layers.
- streamflow — the water that flows in a specific stream site, especially its volume and rate of flow.
- strifeless — without strife
- strike off — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- stuffed up — sinuses, nose: congested
- stuffiness — close; poorly ventilated: a stuffy room.
- stultified — to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous.
- stupefying — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- subfebrile — pertaining to or marked by a temperature slightly above normal.
- subfertile — less than normally fertile
- subjectify — to make subjective.
- subofficer — 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.