9-letter words containing f, a, s
- 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.
- 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.
- trifocals — glasses with trifocal lenses
- turfgrass — grass grown for lawns, of a type that forms a dense even turf if mown and maintained
- ultrafast — extremely fast: ultrafast computers.
- ultrasafe — extremely safe
- ultrasoft — extremely soft
- unbashful — uncomfortably diffident and easily embarrassed; shy; timid.
- unfairest — most unfair
- unstaffed — a group of persons, as employees, charged with carrying out the work of an establishment or executing some undertaking.
- vouchsafe — to grant or give, as by favor, graciousness, or condescension: to vouchsafe a reply to a question.
- waffen ss — the militarized formations of the SS, established by Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945 and including some units of foreign nationals from occupied territories.
- waitstaff — a staff of waiters or waitresses who wait on tables, as in a restaurant.
- wasterful — Lb obsolete wasteful.
- waveforms — Plural form of waveform.
- wayfarers — Plural form of wayfarer.
- welfarism — the set of attitudes and policies characterizing or tending toward the establishment of a welfare state.
- welfarist — the set of attitudes and policies characterizing or tending toward the establishment of a welfare state.
- westfalen — German name of Westphalia.
- wheyfaces — Plural form of wheyface.
- whipstaff — a bar attached to a ship's tiller to assist with steering
- windfalls — Plural form of windfall.
- wolfsbane — any of several plants in the aconite genus Aconitum, including A. lycoctonum, bearing stalks of hood-shaped purplish-blue flowers, the monkshood A. napellus, which yields a poisonous alkaloid used medicinally, and numerous garden varieties in various colors.
- yousafzai — Malala (məˈlælə) born 1997, Pakistani women's rights campaigner; survived an attack by a Taliban gunman (2012); Nobel Peace Prize (2014)
- zebrafish — a small, slender freshwater fish, Brachydanio rerio, having luminous bluish-black and silvery-gold horizontal stripes: popular in home aquariums.