9-letter words containing f, e, i, s, a
- pikestaff — the shaft of an infantry pike.
- praiseful — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- 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.
- ratifiers — to confirm by expressing consent, approval, or formal sanction: to ratify a constitutional amendment.
- reaffirms — to state or assert positively; maintain as true: to affirm one's loyalty to one's country; He affirmed that all was well.
- refashion — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- rijstafel — an assortment of Indonesian side dishes accompanied by rice
- sablefish — a large, blackish food fish, Anoplopoma fimbria, inhabiting waters of the North Pacific.
- sacrifice — the offering of animal, plant, or human life or of some material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage.
- safelight — a darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.
- safranine — any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes, phenazine derivatives, used for dyeing wool, silk, etc.
- sanforize — to preshrink (cloth) permanently by a patented process before making garments
- satisfice — to choose or adopt the first satisfactory option that one comes across: the tendency of decision-makers to satisfice rather than look for the optimal solution.
- satisfied — content: a satisfied look.
- satisfies — to fulfill the desires, expectations, needs, or demands of (a person, the mind, etc.); give full contentment to: The hearty meal satisfied him.
- saxifrage — any plant of the genus Saxifraga, certain species of which grow wild in the clefts of rocks, other species of which are cultivated for their flowers.
- scarfwise — in the manner of a scarf
- scarifier — to make scratches or superficial incisions in (the skin, a wound, etc.), as in vaccination.
- sea fight — a fight between ships at sea.
- seafaring — traveling by sea.
- self-bias — voltage developed on an electrode in a vacuum tube circuit as a result of current flowing through a resistor in a lead to the cathode or to a grid.
- self-paid — a simple past tense and past participle of pay1 .
- semidwarf — a plant which is smaller than usual but bigger than a dwarf
- semifinal — of or relating to the round preceding the final one in a tournament from which losers are eliminated.
- sheaflike — resembling a sheaf
- sheatfish — a large, freshwater catfish, Silurus glanis, inhabiting rivers in central and eastern Europe, sometimes reaching a weight of 400 pounds (181.4 kg).
- sherifian — pertaining to a descendant of Muhammad through his daughter Fatima
- shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.
- shitfaced — very drunk.
- snakefish — lizardfish.
- sniffable — capable of being sniffed
- spadefish — a deep-bodied marine fish of the genus Chaetodipterus, especially C. faber, of Atlantic coastal waters of North America.
- spearfish — fish: type of marlin
- stiffware — a type of computer software that is difficult to modify
- sulfatize — to convert into a sulfate, as by the roasting of ores.
- superwaif — a very young and very thin supermodel
- unfairest — most unfair
- 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.
- zebrafish — a small, slender freshwater fish, Brachydanio rerio, having luminous bluish-black and silvery-gold horizontal stripes: popular in home aquariums.