10-letter words containing s, o, f, t, n
- floatstone — a stone for rubbing bricks to be gauged.
- florescent — the act, state, or period of flowering; bloom.
- florissant — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- flotations — Plural form of flotation.
- fluxionist — a person who uses mathematical fluxions
- flyposting — the posting of advertising or political bills, posters, etc in unauthorized places
- folkestone — a seaport in E Kent, in SE England, on the Strait of Dover.
- fonticulus — a fontanelle of the cranium
- fontinalis — a type of aquatic moss
- footprints — Plural form of footprint.
- footstones — Plural form of footstone.
- forestland — land containing or covered with forests.
- forgetness — Oblivion; forgetfulness; obliviousness.
- forlornest — Superlative form of forlorn.
- formations — Plural form of formation.
- fornicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fornicate.
- fortnights — Plural form of fortnight.
- 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).
- foster son — a boy raised like one's own son, though not such by birth or adoption.
- fosterling — foster child.
- fosterment — The act of fostering or encouraging something.
- freestones — Plural form of freestone.
- frithsoken — (from Old English) a refuge; a sanctuary
- front desk — a desk at which a receptionist works, as in an office.
- front list — a publisher's sales list of newly or recently published books, especially those of popular or ephemeral appeal.
- frontlines — Plural form of frontline.
- frontstall — chanfron.
- frontwards — in a direction toward the front.
- frost line — the maximum depth at which soil is frozen.
- frostbound — (of ground) hardened by frost
- frostiness — The quality of being frosty.
- frothiness — The quality of being frothy.
- hoofprints — Plural form of hoofprint.
- housefront — the façade of a house
- infections — Plural form of infection.
- infectious — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.
- 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.
- ironfisted — ruthless, harsh, and tyrannical: an ironfisted dictator.
- 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.
- manifestos — Plural form of manifesto.
- misfortune — adverse fortune; bad luck.
- muttonfish — ocean pout.
- neofascist — any of various political movements or beliefs inspired by or reminiscent of fascism or Nazism.
- new forest — a forest region in S England, in Hampshire: national park. 145 sq. mi. (376 sq. km).
- nonprofits — Plural form of nonprofit.
- nose flute — (esp in the South Sea Islands) a type of flute blown through the nose
- offsetting — something that counterbalances, counteracts, or compensates for something else; compensating equivalent.