10-letter words containing s, o, f, t, a
- forsythias — Plural form of forsythia.
- fortalices — Plural form of fortalice.
- fortransit — (language) Fortran Internal Translator. A subset of Fortran translated into IT on the IBM 650. It was in use in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Compilation took place in several steps (using punched cards as the only input/output media). FORTRANSIT was converted to IT Internal Translator which was converted into SOAP and thence to machine code. In the SOAP -> machine code step, the user had to include card decks for all the subroutines used in his FORTRANSIT program (including e.g. square root, sine, and even basic floating point routines).
- frontstall — chanfron.
- frontwards — in a direction toward the front.
- fumigators — Plural form of fumigator.
- goatfishes — Plural form of goatfish.
- godfathers — Plural form of godfather.
- half story — a usable living space within a sloping roof, usually having dormer windows for lighting.
- hofstadter — Richard, 1916–70, U.S. historian.
- homografts — Plural form of homograft.
- inflations — Plural form of inflation.
- informants — Plural form of informant.
- instead of — as a substitute or replacement; in the place or stead of someone or something: We ordered tea but were served coffee instead.
- ipso facto — by the fact itself; by the very nature of the deed: to be condemned ipso facto.
- jack frost — frost or freezing cold personified.
- lakefronts — Plural form of lakefront.
- loan-shift — change or extension of the meaning of a word through the influence of a foreign word, as in the application in English of the meaning “profession” to the word calling through the influence of Latin vocātio.
- love feast — (among the early Christians) a meal eaten in token of brotherly love and charity; agape.
- manifestos — Plural form of manifesto.
- marrowfats — Plural form of marrowfat.
- neofascist — any of various political movements or beliefs inspired by or reminiscent of fascism or Nazism.
- oak forest — a town in NE Illinois.
- obfuscated — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- obfuscates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obfuscate.
- obfuscator — Agent noun of obfuscate; one who obfuscates.
- off stream — (of an industrial plant, manufacturing process, etc) shut down or not in production
- officiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of officiate.
- offsetable — able to balance, counteract, or compensate for something else
- overdrafts — Plural form of overdraft.
- parrotfish — any of various chiefly tropical marine fishes, especially of the family Scaridae: so called because of their brilliant coloring and the shape of their jaws.
- perforatus — a muscle that bends a digit
- permafrost — (in arctic or subarctic regions) perennially frozen subsoil.
- photoflash — flashbulb.
- poop staff — ensign staff.
- profascist — a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.
- 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)
- reforecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- roast beef — cow's meat cooked in oven
- sainte foy — a SW suburb of Quebec, on the St Lawrence River. Pop: 72 547 (2001)
- sandalfoot — (of women's hosiery) having no darker or thicker reinforced areas at the toe or heel, so as to be suitable for wear with sandal-type shoes.
- scoutcraft — practice of or skill at scouting.
- sex factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
- snake foot — an elongated foot or short leg, as to a pedestal table, having the form of an ogee tangent to the floor surface.
- soft armor — quilted fabric used as armor.
- soft paste — any of a variety of artificial porcelains, usually incorporating glass or glass ingredients.
- 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 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.