9-letter words containing f, a, l, s, t
- salt flat — an extensive level tract coated with salt deposits left by evaporation of rising ground water or a temporary body of surface water.
- salt-free — containing or involving no salt
- scatheful — causing harm or injury
- self-hate — to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest: to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry.
- self-mate — a move that will cause a player's king to be mated within a certain number of subsequent moves.
- self-talk — motivational thoughts, affirmations
- self-want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
- shaftless — lacking a shaft
- shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.
- shortfall — the quantity or extent by which something falls short; deficiency; shortage.
- show flat — a newly-build flat that is decorated and furnished for prospective buyers to view
- slashfest — a film, animated film, or computer game in which victims are killed bloodily using blades
- soft clam — soft-shell clam.
- soft coal — bituminous coal.
- soft hail — snow pellets.
- soft loan — A soft loan is a loan with a very low interest rate. Soft loans are usually made to developing countries or to businesses in developing countries.
- soft-land — to cause to land slowly and without jarring impact: to soft-land the module on the planet's surface.
- solfatara — a fumarole that gives off only sulfurous gases.
- sootflake — a smudge or speck of soot
- splayfoot — a broad, flat foot, especially one turned outward.
- stairlift — A stairlift is a device that is fitted to a staircase in a house in order to allow an elderly or sick person to go upstairs.
- stall-fed — (of animals) confined to and fed in a stall, especially for fattening.
- sulfatase — any of a class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of sulfuric acid esters.
- sulfation — Chemistry. a salt or ester of sulfuric acid.
- sulfatize — to convert into a sulfate, as by the roasting of ores.
- sulfonate — an ester or salt derived from a sulfonic acid.
- sulfurate — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur, the fumes of burning sulfur, etc.
- sweetleaf — a shrub or small tree, Symplocos tinctoria, of the eastern coast of the U.S., having lance-shaped leaves, yellowish, fragrant flowers, and orange or brown fruit.
- tailfirst — with the tail or rear part foremost.
- tanstaafl — /tan'stah-fl/ (From Robert Heinlein's classic "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress") "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch". Often invoked when someone is balking at the prospect of using an unpleasantly heavyweight technique, or at the poor quality of some piece of free software, or at the signal-to-noise ratio of unmoderated Usenet newsgroups. "What? Don't tell me I have to implement a database back end to get my address book program to work!" "Well, TANSTAAFL you know." This phrase owes some of its popularity to the high concentration of science-fiction fans and political libertarians in hackerdom.
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
- trifocals — glasses with trifocal lenses
- ultrafast — extremely fast: ultrafast computers.
- ultrasafe — extremely safe
- ultrasoft — extremely soft
- wasterful — Lb obsolete wasteful.
- welfarist — the set of attitudes and policies characterizing or tending toward the establishment of a welfare state.
- westfalen — German name of Westphalia.