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9-letter words containing f, a, t, e

  • 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
  • stiffware — a type of computer software that is difficult to modify
  • stoneface — living stones.
  • suffocate — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
  • sulfatase — any of a class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of sulfuric acid esters.
  • 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.
  • superfast — very or extremely fast
  • 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.
  • tackifier — a substance that causes tackiness
  • tafelwein — German table wine
  • take fire — to begin to burn
  • take five — a cardinal number, four plus one.
  • take form — be shaped
  • take life — to kill
  • tallchief — Maria, 1925–2013, U.S. ballet dancer.
  • tamoxifen — an antineoplastic drug, C 26 H 29 NO, that blocks the estrogen receptors on cancer cells, used in the treatment of breast cancer.
  • taper off — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
  • taxi fare — the money a customer pays for a journey in a taxi
  • teacupful — as much as a teacup will hold, equal to 4 fluid ounces (113 grams).
  • team foul — one of a number of personal fouls committed within a specified period that do not exceed the allowable limit after which the opposing team begins to receive bonus free throws.
  • telferage — a transportation system in which cars or other carriers are suspended from or run on wire cables or the like, especially one operated by electricity.
  • teniafuge — an agent or medicine for expelling tapeworms from the body.
  • teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
  • terraform — to alter the environment of (a celestial body) in order to make capable of supporting terrestrial life forms.
  • the fancy — those who follow a particular sport, esp prize fighting
  • the mafia — an international secret organization founded in Sicily, probably in opposition to tyranny. It developed into a criminal organization and in the late 19th century was carried to the US by Italian immigrants
  • thickleaf — any of various succulent plants of the crassulaceous genus Crassula, having sessile or short-stalked fleshy leaves
  • 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.
  • threatful — threatening, menacing or full of threats
  • timeframe — the period of time within which certain events are scheduled to occur
  • tone-deaf — unable to distinguish differences in pitch in musical sounds when producing or hearing them.
  • trade off — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
  • trade-off — the exchange of one thing for another of more or less equal value, especially to effect a compromise.
  • transfect — to cause transfection in (a cell).
  • transfuse — to transfer or pass from one to another; transmit; instill: to transfuse a love of literature to one's students.
  • tree farm — a tree-covered area managed as a business enterprise under a plan of reforestation that makes continuous production of timber possible.
  • two-faced — having two faces.
  • ultrafine — extremely small or delicate
  • ultraleft — of or belonging to the extreme political Left; extremely liberal or radical.
  • ultrasafe — extremely safe
  • undefiant — characterized by defiance; boldly resistant or challenging: a defiant attitude.
  • undrafted — a drawing, sketch, or design.
  • unfairest — most unfair
  • unstaffed — a group of persons, as employees, charged with carrying out the work of an establishment or executing some undertaking.
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