10-letter words containing s, f, e
- subprefect — an administrator junior to a prefect or chief official
- subsulfate — a basic salt of sulfuric acid.
- subsurface — below the surface, especially of a body of water.
- subterfuge — an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc.
- succes fou — an extraordinarily great success.
- successful — achieving or having achieved success.
- suckerfish — remora.
- sucralfate — a sugar-aluminum complex, C 1 2 H 5 4 Al 1 6 O 7 5 S 8 , used for the treatment of duodenal ulcer.
- sufferable — to undergo or feel pain or distress: The patient is still suffering.
- sufferance — passive permission resulting from lack of interference; tolerance, especially of something wrong or illegal (usually preceded by on or by).
- sufficient — adequate for the purpose; enough: sufficient proof; sufficient protection.
- suffisance — a sufficiency, a sufficient or abundant quantity or supply
- sugar-free — containing no sugar: a sugar-free cola.
- sulfureous — consisting of, containing, or pertaining to sulfur.
- sun-filled — filled with light from the sun
- sunk fence — a wall or other barrier set in a ditch to divide lands without marring the landscape.
- superfecta — a type of bet, especially on horse races, in which the bettor must select the first four finishers in exact order.
- superflack — an extremely competent, successful press agent
- superfluid — a fluid that exhibits frictionless flow, very high heat conductivity, and other unusual physical properties, helium below 2.186 K being the only known example.
- surefooted — not likely to stumble, slip, or fall.
- surf smelt — a smelt, Hypomesus pretiosus, inhabiting shallow waters from southern California to Alaska, and spawning in the surf.
- surfaceman — a labourer, such as a miner, who works at the surface
- surfeiting — excess; an excessive amount: a surfeit of speechmaking.
- survey fee — the money paid to a surveyor for an inspection of a building to determine its condition and value
- suspectful — suspicious
- sweet fern — a North American shrub, Comptonia (or Myrica) asplenifolia, having scented fernlike leaves and heads of brownish flowers: family Myricaceae
- sweet flag — an aroid marsh plant, Acorus calamus, having swordlike leaves, small greenish flowers, and aromatic roots
- swimfeeder — a device containing bait, attached to the line to ensure the gradual baiting of the swim from under the surface
- swipe left — to move a finger from right to left across a touchscreen in order to dismiss an image
- sword fern — any fern of the genus Nephrolepis, especially N. exaltata, characterized by sword-shaped, pinnate fronds, a common houseplant.
- tammerfors — Swedish name of Tampere.
- task force — Navy, Military. a temporary grouping of units under one commander, formed for the purpose of carrying out a specific operation or mission.
- telferages — telpher.
- the fishes — the constellation Pisces, the twelfth sign of the zodiac
- the flicks — the cinema
- the forces — the armed services of a nation
- threadfish — any of several jacks of the genus Alectis, especially A. ciliaris, having the front rays of the dorsal and anal fins greatly elongated.
- thriftless — without thrift; improvident; wasteful.
- time flies — time passes quickly
- to see fit — If you say that someone sees fit to do something, you mean that they are entitled to do it, but that you disapprove of their decision to do it.
- tonguefish — any of several flatfishes of the family Cynoglossidae, having the tail tapered to a point.
- tortfeasor — a person who commits a tort.
- transferal — transference; transfer.
- transferee — a person who is transferred or removed, as from one place to another.
- transferor — a person who makes a transfer, as of property.
- transfixed — to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.
- trisulfide — a sulfide containing three sulfur atoms.
- tsetse fly — any of several bloodsucking African flies of the genus Glossina, that act as a vector of sleeping sickness and other trypanosome infections of humans and domestic animals.
- tuffaceous — a fragmental rock consisting of the smaller kinds of volcanic detritus, as ash or cinder, usually more or less stratified.
- two-fisted — ready for or inclined to physical combat.