9-letter words containing f, a, n
- snowflake — one of the small, feathery masses or flakes in which snow falls.
- 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.
- songcraft — the art of songwriting
- span roof — a roof having two slopes of equal breadth and pitch meeting at a common ridge.
- stand for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- stand off — a standing off or apart; aloofness.
- stand-off — a standing off or apart; aloofness.
- standfast — a rigid or unyielding position.
- sternfast — a rope for securing a boat at stern to another boat, dock, or buoy
- stoneface — living stones.
- 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.
- sulfation — Chemistry. a salt or ester of sulfuric acid.
- sulfonate — an ester or salt derived from a sulfonic acid.
- surfacing — the outer face, outside, or exterior boundary of a thing; outermost or uppermost layer or area.
- tafelwein — German table wine
- tamoxifen — an antineoplastic drug, C 26 H 29 NO, that blocks the estrogen receptors on cancer cells, used in the treatment of breast cancer.
- tank farm — an area or expanse of land used for holding oil-storage tanks.
- 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.
- teniafuge — an agent or medicine for expelling tapeworms from the body.
- the fancy — those who follow a particular sport, esp prize fighting
- thief ant — a small red ant, Solenopsis molesta, of North America, that nests in the walls of the nest of a larger species from which it steals eggs and young larvae.
- threadfin — any spiny-rayed fishes of the family Polynemidae, having the lower part of the pectoral fin composed of numerous, separate, filamentous rays.
- tone-deaf — unable to distinguish differences in pitch in musical sounds when producing or hearing them.
- trans fat — trans-fatty acid.
- trans-fat — trans-fatty acid.
- transfect — to cause transfection in (a cell).
- transform — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- transfuse — to transfer or pass from one to another; transmit; instill: to transfuse a love of literature to one's students.
- ultrafine — extremely small or delicate
- unaffable — pleasantly easy to approach and to talk to; friendly; cordial; warmly polite: an affable and courteous gentleman.
- unbaffled — not baffled or confused by contradictions
- unbashful — uncomfortably diffident and easily embarrassed; shy; timid.
- uncareful — not careful; not caring or vigilant; careless
- undefaced — not defaced; intact
- undefiant — characterized by defiance; boldly resistant or challenging: a defiant attitude.
- underleaf — (in liverworts) any of the leaves forming a row on the underside of the stem: usually smaller than the two rows of lateral leaves and sometimes absent
- undrafted — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- uneffaced — to wipe out; do away with; expunge: to efface one's unhappy memories.
- unfactual — of or relating to facts; concerning facts: factual accuracy.
- unfadable — to lose brightness or vividness of color.
- unfailing — not failing; not giving way; not falling short of expectation; completely dependable: an unfailing friend.
- unfairest — most unfair
- unfancied — unreal; imaginary: to be upset by fancied grievances.
- unfavored — regarded or treated with preference or partiality: Her beauty made her the favored child.
- unfearful — causing or apt to cause fear; frightening: a fearful apparition.
- unfearing — having no fear
- unfixable — to repair; mend.
- unflanged — a projecting rim, collar, or ring on a shaft, pipe, machine housing, etc., cast or formed to give additional strength, stiffness, or supporting area, or to provide a place for the attachment of other objects.
- unflapped — not upset or confused; unperturbed.