9-letter words containing f, a, s
- nose leaf — a leaflike outgrowth of skin on the nose of various bats, thought to be sensitive to vibrations of the air.
- nosferatu — Alternative form of Nosferatu.
- nuff said — used to indicate that the preceding statement is sufficient
- obfuscate — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- of a size — of one or the same size
- of a sort — a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
- off-sales — sales of alcoholic drink for consumption off the premises by a pub or an off-licence attached to a pub
- officials — Plural form of official.
- offsaddle — (transitive, chiefly, South Africa) To unsaddle; remove the saddle from.
- offseason — a time of year other than the regular or busiest one for a specific activity: Fares are lower in the off-season.
- olfactics — The study of smells and how they are perceived.
- ossifraga — a large fulmar
- ossifrage — the lammergeier.
- outflanks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outflank.
- overfalls — Oceanography. water made rough by a strong current moving over a shoal, by an opposing current, or by winds blowing against the current.
- overstaff — to provide an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- packstaff — a long pole for carrying a pack
- pantofles — a slipper.
- pascal-fc — A Pascal derived from Pascal-S which provides several types of concurrency: semaphores, monitors, both occam/CSP-style and Ada-style rendezvous.
- pass-fail — a system of grading in some educational institutions in which a student simply passes or fails instead of receiving a letter or numerical grade.
- past life — previous incarnation
- pearlfish — any of several small fishes of the family Carapidae, living within pearl oysters, sea cucumbers, starfishes, etc.
- perforans — (of nerves, muscles, or blood vessels) perforating or penetrating other anatomical structures
- perfusate — a fluid pumped or flowing through an organ or tissue.
- petaflops — (unit) 10^15 flops or 1000 teraflops. As with flops, the term ends in S in both the singular and plural as the S stands for seconds. The first computer to perform one petaflops was recorded in June 2008. By June 2012 there were 20.
- pikestaff — the shaft of an infantry pike.
- platforms — a horizontal surface or structure with a horizontal surface raised above the level of the surrounding area.
- platyfish — any of several small, yellow-gray freshwater fishes of the genus Xiphophorus, especially X. variatus, of Mexico: popular in home aquariums, in which the color varies widely.
- play safe — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- postfault — taking place after a fault
- postfixal — of or relating to a postfix, having postfixes
- praiseful — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- pratfalls — a fall in which one lands on the buttocks, often regarded as comical or humiliating.
- profaners — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- proformas — according to form; as a matter of form; for the sake of form.
- qualifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of qualify.
- raffinose — a colorless, crystalline trisaccharide, C 1 8 H 3 2 O 1 6 ⋅5H 2 O, with little or no sweetness, occurring in the sugar beet, cottonseed, etc., and breaking down to fructose, glucose, and galactose on hydrolysis.
- rafflesia — any stemless, leafless, parasitic plant of the genus Rafflesia, of the Malay Peninsula and Republic of Indonesia, characterized by apetalous flowers, measuring 3 in.–3 feet (8 cm–90 cm) in diameter, that exude a putrid odor: now greatly reduced in number.
- rankshift — (in systemic linguistics) to use a unit as a constituent of another unit of the same or lower rank on the rank scale, as in using the phrase next door within the phrase the boy next door or the clause that you met yesterday within the phrase the girl that you met yesterday.
- rastafari — Rastafarian (def 1).
- ratifiers — to confirm by expressing consent, approval, or formal sanction: to ratify a constitutional amendment.
- razorfish — any of several wrasses of the genus Hemipteronatus having a compressed, sharp-edged head, as H. novacula (pearly razorfish) of the West Indies and the Mediterranean Sea.
- reaffirms — to state or assert positively; maintain as true: to affirm one's loyalty to one's country; He affirmed that all was well.
- red flash — a red coloration of the lower portion of the sun, occasionally seen as the sun rises above or sinks to the horizon.
- refashion — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- resurface — to give a new surface to.
- rijstafel — an assortment of Indonesian side dishes accompanied by rice
- rockshaft — an oscillating shaft.
- roofscape — a view of the rooftops of a town, city, etc
- sablefish — a large, blackish food fish, Anoplopoma fimbria, inhabiting waters of the North Pacific.