5-letter words containing s, f, e
- fides — (italics) Latin. (used with a singular verb) good faith; absence of fraud or deceit; the state of being exactly as claims or appearances indicate: The bona fides of this contract is open to question. Compare mala fides.
- fiefs — Plural form of fief.
- fifes — Plural form of fife.
- files — Plural form of file.
- fines — Plural form of fine.
- fires — Plural form of fire.
- fiske — John (Edmund Fisk Green; John Fisk) 1842–1901, U.S. philosopher and historian.
- fives — a cardinal number, four plus one.
- fixes — Plural form of fix.
- fleas — Plural form of flea.
- flees — to run away, as from danger or pursuers; take flight.
- flesh — the soft substance of a human or other animal body, consisting of muscle and fat.
- flews — a fishing net.
- flies — to move through the air using wings.
- floes — Also called ice floe. a sheet of floating ice, chiefly on the surface of the sea, smaller than an ice field.
- flues — Plural form of flue.
- flyes — Plural form of flye.
- fomes — any agent, as clothing or bedding, that is capable of absorbing and transmitting the infecting organism of a disease.
- fosse — Robert Louis ("Bob") 1927–87, U.S. dancer, choreographer, and theater and film director.
- fouse — Ready, eager, prompt, quick, striving forward, inclined to, willing.
- foxes — Plural form of fox.
- frees — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of free.
- fresh — newly made or obtained: fresh footprints.
- fress — to eat or snack, especially often or in large quantities.
- frets — Plural form of fret.
- fries — Charles Carpenter, 1887–1967, U.S. linguist.
- frise — a rug or upholstery fabric having the pile in uncut loops or in a combination of cut and uncut loops.
- froes — Plural form of froe.
- fuels — Plural form of fuel.
- fumes — Often, fumes. any smokelike or vaporous exhalation from matter or substances, especially of an odorous or harmful nature: tobacco fumes; noxious fumes of carbon monoxide.
- fused — Electricity. a protective device, used in an electric circuit, containing a conductor that melts under heat produced by an excess current, thereby opening the circuit. Compare circuit breaker.
- fusee — a wooden friction match having a large head, formerly used when a larger than normal flame was needed.
- fuses — Plural form of fuse.
- fuzes — Plural form of fuze.
- fyces — feist.
- hefts — Plural form of heft.
- jefes — Plural form of jefe.
- jeffs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jeff.
- kerfs — Plural form of kerf.
- leafs — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
- lefse — a round Norwegian flatbread resembling a tortilla, made with mashed potatoes and flour.
- lefts — Plural form of left.
- lifes — (obsolete, possibly not standard in any era) Plural form of life.
- safer — secure from liability to harm, injury, danger, or risk: a safe place.
- sefer — the scrolls of the Law
- self- — Self- is used to form words which indicate that you do something to yourself or by yourself.
- selfs — a person or thing referred to with respect to complete individuality: one's own self.
- serif — a smaller line used to finish off a main stroke of a letter, as at the top and bottom of M.
- shaef — Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces
- sheaf — one of the bundles in which cereal plants, as wheat, rye, etc., are bound after reaping.