9-letter words containing f, a, s
- squawfish — any of several large, voracious cyprinid fishes of the genus Ptychocheilus, inhabiting rivers of the western U.S. and Canada: the Colorado squawfish, P. lucius, is endangered.
- staffroom — room for teachers at school
- stairfoot — the area at the foot of a flight of stairs
- 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.
- 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.
- stardrift — the very small continuous change in the direction of movement which is shared by the stars within a particular cluster
- start off — begin sth
- statfarad — the electrostatic unit of capacitance, equivalent to 1.1126 × 10 −12 farad and equal to the capacitance of a condenser in which one statcoulomb is transferred from one conductor of the condenser to the other per volt of potential difference between the conductors.
- stave off — one of the thin, narrow, shaped pieces of wood that form the sides of a cask, tub, or similar vessel.
- steadfast — fixed in direction; steadily directed: a steadfast gaze.
- sternfast — a rope for securing a boat at stern to another boat, dock, or buoy
- stiff arm — to push away (an opponent) with one's arm out straight
- stiff-arm — straight-arm.
- stiffware — a type of computer software that is difficult to modify
- stoneface — living stones.
- strafford — 1st Earl of (Thomas Wentworth) 1593–1641, English statesman: chief adviser of Charles I of England.
- stratford — a town in SW Connecticut, near Bridgeport: Shakespeare theater.
- stud farm — place where horses are bred
- styrofoam — Styrofoam is a very light, plastic substance, used especially to make containers.
- sub-frame — a border or case for enclosing a picture, mirror, etc.
- subfamily — Biology. a category of related genera within a family.
- suck face — to draw into the mouth by producing a partial vacuum by action of the lips and tongue: to suck lemonade through a straw.
- suffocate — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- 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.
- 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.
- superfarm — a very large farm, sometimes incorporating or coordinating a number of smaller farms
- superfast — very or extremely fast
- supersafe — exceptionally safe
- superwaif — a very young and very thin supermodel
- surf boat — a strong, buoyant rowboat with high ends, adapted for beaching and passing through surf.
- surf clam — any of several typically large common clams of the family Mactridae, inhabiting the zone of breaking surf in coastal waters.
- surf-cast — to fish by casting into the surf from or near the shore
- surfacing — the outer face, outside, or exterior boundary of a thing; outermost or uppermost layer or area.
- surfboard — a long, narrow board on which a person stands or lies prone in surfboarding.
- surficial — of or relating to a surface, especially the land surface: a surficial geologic deposit.
- swampfish — a small fish, Chologaster cornuta, related to the cavefishes, inhabiting swamps and streams of the Atlantic coastal plain, having small but functional eyes and almost transparent skin.
- swear for — to give assurance for; guarantee
- swear off — to make a solemn declaration or affirmation by some sacred being or object, as a deity or the Bible.
- sweat off — to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
- 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.
- syllabify — to form or divide into syllables.