10-letter words containing s, o, l, f
- frabjously — In a frabjous manner; wonderfully, fabulously.
- frithstool — (in Anglo-Saxon England) a seat in a church, placed near the altar, for persons who claimed the right of sanctuary.
- frolicsome — merrily playful; full of fun.
- 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.
- frost boil — frost heave.
- frost line — the maximum depth at which soil is frozen.
- fuliginous — sooty; smoky: the fuliginous air hanging over an industrial city.
- full house — a hand consisting of three of a kind and a pair, as three queens and two tens.
- full score — the entire score of a musical composition, showing each part separately
- fusionless — without fusion
- goldfields — any of several Californian, composite herbs of the genus Lasthenia, having yellow flowers.
- goldfishes — Plural form of goldfish.
- golf links — the ground or course over which golf is played. A standard full-scale golf course has 125 to 175 acres (51 to 71 hectares), usually with 18 holes varying from 100 to 650 yards (91 to 594 meters) in length from tee to cup.
- gooseflesh — goose bumps.
- gyrfalcons — Plural form of gyrfalcon.
- half story — a usable living space within a sloping roof, usually having dormer windows for lighting.
- holofernes — (in the Book of Judith) a general, serving Nebuchadnezzar, who was killed by Judith.
- horseflesh — the flesh of a horse.
- horseflies — Plural form of horsefly.
- hosts file — (networking) A text file on a networked computer used to associate host names with IP addresses. A hosts file contains lines consisting of whitespace-separated fields giving an IP address followed by list of host names or aliases associated with that address. The name resolution library software can use this file to look up the IP address for a host name. The hosts file is "/etc/hosts" on Unix and "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts" or "lmhosts" on Microsoft Windows, In most cases, hosts files have now been almost entirely replaced by DNS, in which distributed servers provide the same information. A hosts file can still be used to override DNS for testing purposes or other special situations.
- hounsfield — ˈGodfrey Newˌbold (ˈnuˌboʊld ) ; no̅oˈbōldˌ) 1919-2004; Brit. engineer & inventor: developed the CAT scanner
- house flag — a flag flown by a merchant ship, bearing the emblem of its owners or operators.
- houseflies — Plural form of housefly.
- hoverflies — Plural form of hoverfly.
- hydrofoils — Plural form of hydrofoil.
- infamously — having an extremely bad reputation: an infamous city.
- inflations — Plural form of inflation.
- infoldings — Plural form of infolding.
- infusorial — pertaining to, containing, or consisting of infusorians: infusorial earth.
- isoflavone — a phytoestrogen produced chiefly by plants of the legume family, especially soybeans, potentially useful in lowering cholesterol and in treating some cancers and menopausal symptoms.
- isoflurane — a volatile, halogenated ether, C 3 H 2 ClF 5 O, used as a general anesthetic in surgery.
- joyfulness — full of joy, as a person or one's heart; glad; delighted.
- just folks — Usually, folks. (used with a plural verb) people in general: Folks say there wasn't much rain last summer.
- lakefronts — Plural form of lakefront.
- laniferous — wool-bearing: sheep and other laniferous animals.
- leitmotifs — Plural form of leitmotif.
- lemon fish — the cobia.
- life story — an account of all the events that happened to someone during their life
- lipofuscin — any of several brown pigments similar to melanin that accumulate in animal cells with age and are products of oxidation of lipids and lipoproteins.
- loaf sugar — a large conical mass of hard refined sugar; sugar loaf
- 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.
- loose-leaf — (of a book, notebook, etc.) consisting of individual leaves held in a binder (loose-leaf binder) as by rings that open and close, in such a way as to allow their removal, return, or replacement without tearing.
- love feast — (among the early Christians) a meal eaten in token of brotherly love and charity; agape.
- luciferous — bringing or providing light.
- lucifugous — Shunning the light.
- machoflops — /mach'oh-flops/ A pun on "megaflops" referring to the inflated performance figures often quoted by computer manufacturers. Real application programs are lucky to get half the quoted speed. See Your mileage may vary, benchmark.
- mesofossil — A fossil of a small part of a plant, such as a fruit, leaf or seed.
- microfilms — Plural form of microfilm.