9-letter words containing f, e, o, s
- oilfields — Plural form of oilfield.
- ossifrage — the lammergeier.
- outfields — Plural form of outfield.
- overfalls — Oceanography. water made rough by a strong current moving over a shoal, by an opposing current, or by winds blowing against the current.
- overflush — too flush
- overfocus — to focus too much
- overfussy — too fussy
- overstaff — to provide an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- overstuff — to force too much into: If you overstuff your suitcase, the fastenings may not hold.
- oviferous — bearing eggs.
- pantofles — a slipper.
- perforans — (of nerves, muscles, or blood vessels) perforating or penetrating other anatomical structures
- perfusion — the act of perfusing.
- personify — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- petaflops — (unit) 10^15 flops or 1000 teraflops. As with flops, the term ends in S in both the singular and plural as the S stands for seconds. The first computer to perform one petaflops was recorded in June 2008. By June 2012 there were 20.
- post-free — British. postpaid.
- profaners — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- professed — avowed; acknowledged.
- professor — a teacher of the highest academic rank in a college or university, who has been awarded the title Professor in a particular branch of learning; a full professor: a professor of Spanish literature.
- profiters — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
- profusely — spending or giving freely and in large amount, often to excess; extravagant (often followed by in): profuse praise.
- profusive — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- proof set — a set of coins (proof coins), one of each denomination, minted annually from highly polished metal on special dies, issued for collectors rather than for circulation
- proofless — lacking proof
- 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.
- refashion — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- reformers — a person devoted to bringing about reform, as in politics or society.
- reformism — a person who advocates or practices reform; reformer.
- reformist — a person who advocates or practices reform; reformer.
- reposeful — full of or suggesting repose; calm; quiet.
- restiform — (esp of bundles of nerve fibres) shaped like a cord or rope; cordlike
- rodfisher — an angler or a person who fishes with a fishing rod
- roofscape — a view of the rooftops of a town, city, etc
- rosefinch — any of various finches with pink patches
- safe mode — (operating system) An alternative way to start Microsoft Windows such that only a minimal set of software components (drivers and background processes) are loaded, making it easier to diagnose problems. Safe mode loads a standard low resolution video driver and does not support connection to the Internet. Windows will sometimes restart in safe mode automatically following a crash. All Windows versions except Windows 3.1 can be started in safe mode, usually by holding the Ctrl or F8 key while the computer is restarting. To start Windows NT in safe mode you need to edit C:\boot.ini. Once the problem is fixed you need to restart Windows normally to load all the installed components.
- safflower — a thistlelike composite plant, Carthamus tinctorius, native to the Old World, having finely toothed leaves and large, orange-red flower heads.
- saffroned — containing or coloured by saffron
- sanforize — to preshrink (cloth) permanently by a patented process before making garments
- sawed-off — sawed off at the end, as a shotgun or broomstick.
- scare off — frighten away
- schofield — John McAllister [muh-kal-i-ster] /məˈkæl ɪ stər/ (Show IPA), 1831–1906, U.S. general.
- score off — to gain an advantage at someone else's expense
- scot-free — completely free from harm, restraint, punishment, or obligation: The driver of the car escaped from the accident scot-free. The judge let the defendant off scot-free.
- screw off — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
- screw-off — a loafer; idler.
- sea front — an area, including buildings, along the edge of the sea; waterfront.
- sea-floor — the solid surface underlying a sea or an ocean.
- self-love — the instinct by which one's actions are directed to the promotion of one's own welfare or well-being, especially an excessive regard for one's own advantage.
- self-sown — sown by itself, or without human or animal agency, as of a plant grown from seeds dropped from another plant.
- septiform — sevenfold