9-letter words containing f, d, s, e
- safeguard — something that serves as a protection or defense or that ensures safety.
- saffroned — containing or coloured by saffron
- sand flea — beach flea.
- satisfied — content: a satisfied look.
- sawed-off — sawed off at the end, as a shotgun or broomstick.
- schofield — John McAllister [muh-kal-i-ster] /məˈkæl ɪ stər/ (Show IPA), 1831–1906, U.S. general.
- sedge fly — an angler's name for various caddis flies, notably the grey sedge, the murragh, and the cinnamon sedge
- seed fern — any of various plants of the order Lyginopteridales (or Cycadofilicales), known only as fossils, having fernlike leaves and reproducing by means of seeds.
- seed leaf — a cotyledon.
- seif dune — (in deserts, esp the Sahara) a long ridge of blown sand, often several miles long
- self-feed — to provide a supply of food to (animals) so as to allow them to eat as much and as often as they want. Compare hand-feed (def 1).
- self-made — having succeeded in life unaided: He is a self-made man.
- self-paid — a simple past tense and past participle of pay1 .
- selfridge — Harry Gordon, 1857?–1947, British retail merchant, born in the U.S.
- selfwards — in the direction of oneself
- semideify — to elevate (a person, object, or nature) to the status of a demigod.
- semidwarf — a plant which is smaller than usual but bigger than a dwarf
- semifluid — imperfectly fluid; having both fluid and solid characteristics; semiliquid.
- septemfid — divided into seven
- sevenfold — comprising seven parts or members.
- sex fiend — a person who commits sexual offences
- shades of — something reminding one of something (or someone) past
- shed roof — a roof having a single slope.
- sheepfold — an enclosure for sheep.
- sheet-fed — (of a printing press) fed by and designed to print individual flat sheets of paper.
- sheffield — a city in South Yorkshire, in N England.
- shitfaced — very drunk.
- side-foot — In football, if a player side-foots the ball, they kick it with the side of their foot.
- siegfried — (in the Nibelungenlied) the son of Sigmund and Sieglinde and the husband of Kriemhild. He kills the dragon Fafnir, acquires the treasure of the Nibelungs, wins Brünnhilde for Gunther, and is finally killed by Hagen at the behest of Brünnhilde, whom he had once promised to marry: corresponds to the Sigurd of the Volsunga Saga. Compare Brünnhilde.
- signified — the thing or concept denoted by a sign.
- sissified — sissy.
- snowfield — a large and relatively permanent expanse of snow.
- softmodem — The integration of modem controller and data pump algorithms into a single RAM-based DSP hardware architecture. These integrated algorithms are stored on the computer's hard disk, from which they are downloaded into the DSP board's random-access memory (RAM). This downloading, or "booting" process of the PC-installed software algorithms occurs as part of the computer's power-up initialisation process in less than 100 milliseconds, making it transparent to the user.
- spadefish — a deep-bodied marine fish of the genus Chaetodipterus, especially C. faber, of Atlantic coastal waters of North America.
- spadefoot — spadefoot toad.
- specified — to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail: He did not specify the amount needed.
- spoon-fed — fed with a spoon.
- stall-fed — (of animals) confined to and fed in a stall, especially for fattening.
- steadfast — fixed in direction; steadily directed: a steadfast gaze.
- stiffened — to make stiff.
- stretford — an industrial town in NW England, in Trafford unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 42 103 (2001)
- stupefied — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- subinfeud — a grant by a feudal tenant of land to a further tenant
- sulfoxide — a brown liquid, C 1 8 H 2 8 O 3 S, insoluble in water, used as an insecticide synergist.
- superfood — a food considered exceptionally good for one’s health and for boosting the immune system owing to its naturally high content of vitamins, minerals, fiber, antioxidants, or omega-3 fatty acids: If you crave superfoods, try the quinoa, kale, and roasted beet salad sprinkled with toasted walnuts and flaxseed.
- superfund — a large fund set up to finance an expensive program or project.
- surfeited — excess; an excessive amount: a surfeit of speechmaking.
- underfish — to catch fewer fish than the maximum amount permitted
- underself — the part of a personality that remains hidden
- unfocused — not brought into focus; lacking proper focus: an unfocused camera.