9-letter words containing c, o, f, s
- overfocus — to focus too much
- pisciform — shaped like a fish.
- rockshaft — an oscillating shaft.
- roofscape — a view of the rooftops of a town, city, etc
- rosefinch — any of various finches with pink patches
- sacciform — resembling a sac
- saporific — producing or imparting flavor or taste.
- scare off — frighten away
- schofield — John McAllister [muh-kal-i-ster] /məˈkæl ɪ stər/ (Show IPA), 1831–1906, U.S. general.
- score off — to gain an advantage at someone else's expense
- scot-free — completely free from harm, restraint, punishment, or obligation: The driver of the car escaped from the accident scot-free. The judge let the defendant off scot-free.
- screw off — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
- screw-off — a loafer; idler.
- scutiform — being in the shape of a shield; shield-shaped.
- shopcraft — any of various skilled trades involving maintenance or repair work, as metalworking or boilermaking, especially in the railroad industry.
- slack off — not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
- soft clam — soft-shell clam.
- soft coal — bituminous coal.
- soft copy — computer output displayed on the screen of a VDT (opposed to hard copy).
- soft rock — a comparatively unaggressive, melodic style of rock-'n'-roll in which the arrangement and lyrics are emphasized more than the beat.
- soft tick — any of numerous ticks of the family Argasidae, lacking a dorsal shield and having the mouthparts on the underside of the head.
- soft-core — of, relating to, or containing sexually arousing depictions that are not fully explicit: soft-core pornography. Compare hard-core (def 2).
- softbench — An IPSE from Hewlett-Packard.
- softcover — paperback edition of a book
- songcraft — the art of songwriting
- soporific — causing or tending to cause sleep.
- sourceful — any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin: Which foods are sources of calcium?
- sous chef — the second in command in a kitchen; the person ranking next after the head chef.
- sous-chef — the second in command in a kitchen; the person ranking next after the head chef.
- stockfish — fish, as the cod or haddock, cured by splitting and drying in the air without salt.
- stoneface — living stones.
- suboffice — a branch or local office of a business
- sudorific — causing sweat; diaphoretic.
- suffocate — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- trifocals — glasses with trifocal lenses
- unconfuse — to remove confusion from
- unfocused — not brought into focus; lacking proper focus: an unfocused camera.
- vouchsafe — to grant or give, as by favor, graciousness, or condescension: to vouchsafe a reply to a question.