9-letter words containing f, a, g, s
- fugacious — fleeting; transitory: a sensational story with but a fugacious claim on the public's attention.
- fumigants — Plural form of fumigant.
- fungistat — a fungistatic substance or preparation.
- fuselages — Plural form of fuselage.
- fustigate — to cudgel; beat; punish severely.
- gaff sail — an iron hook with a handle for landing large fish.
- gallflies — Plural form of gallfly.
- game fish — an edible fish capable of affording sport to the angler in its capture.
- garfishes — Plural form of garfish.
- gas field — a district yielding natural gas.
- gas-fired — using a gas for fuel.
- gasifying — Present participle of gasify.
- gatefolds — Plural form of gatefold.
- gearshift — shift lever.
- gigaflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one billion floating-point operations per second.
- glassfish — any small, transparent marine, brackish, or freshwater fishes of the genus Chanda (or Ambassis), native to Africa and the Indo-Pacific region and popular in home aquariums.
- glassfuls — Plural form of glassful.
- gonfalons — Plural form of gonfalon.
- goofballs — Plural form of goofball.
- grassfire — A fire burning over grass or grassland.
- gratifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gratify.
- hagfishes — Plural form of hagfish.
- isografts — Plural form of isograft.
- leapfrogs — Plural form of leapfrog.
- liftgates — Plural form of liftgate.
- lightfast — not affected or faded by light, especially sunlight; colorfast when exposed to light.
- magnifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of magnify.
- megafirms — Plural form of megafirm.
- megaflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one million floating-point operations per second.
- ossifraga — a large fulmar
- ossifrage — the lammergeier.
- safariing — a journey or expedition, for hunting, exploration, or investigation, especially in eastern Africa.
- safeguard — something that serves as a protection or defense or that ensures safety.
- safelight — a darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.
- sangfroid — coolness of mind; calmness; composure: They committed the robbery with complete sang-froid.
- saxifrage — any plant of the genus Saxifraga, certain species of which grow wild in the clefts of rocks, other species of which are cultivated for their flowers.
- sea fight — a fight between ships at sea.
- seafaring — traveling by sea.
- sfd-algol — System Function Description-ALGOL. Extension of ALGOL for synchronous systems. Sammet 1969, p.625.
- sgraffito — a technique of ornamentation in which a surface layer of paint, plaster, slip, etc., is incised to reveal a ground of contrasting color.
- shroffage — the commission charged by a money dealer
- sigrdrifa — a Valkyrie who, for disobedience to Odin, sleeps within a circle of fire until awakened by Sigurd.
- songcraft — the art of songwriting
- suffragan — assisting or auxiliary to, as applied to any bishop in relation to the archbishop or metropolitan who is his superior, or as applied to an assistant or subsidiary bishop who performs episcopal functions in a diocese but has no ordinary jurisdiction, as, in the Church of England, a bishop consecrated to assist the ordinary bishop of a see in part of his diocese.
- sugarloaf — a large, usually conical loaf or mass of hard refined sugar: the common form of household sugar until the mid-19th century.
- surfacing — the outer face, outside, or exterior boundary of a thing; outermost or uppermost layer or area.
- turfgrass — grass grown for lawns, of a type that forms a dense even turf if mown and maintained