9-letter words containing f, e, s, t, o
- frothless — without froth
- fruticose — having the form of a shrub; shrublike.
- gatefolds — Plural form of gatefold.
- goosefoot — any of numerous, often weedy plants of the genus Chenopodium, having inconspicuous greenish flowers.
- halftones — Plural form of halftone.
- hoofbeats — Plural form of hoofbeat.
- horsefoot — (botany) The coltsfoot.
- infectors — Plural form of infector.
- leaf spot — a limited, often circular, discolored, diseased area on a leaf, usually including a central region of necrosis.
- leftovers — Plural form of leftover.
- lifeboats — Plural form of lifeboat.
- loftiness — extending high in the air; of imposing height; towering: lofty mountains.
- lowestoft — a seaport in NE Suffolk, in E England: famous for a type of china.
- manifesto — a public declaration of intentions, opinions, objectives, or motives, as one issued by a government, sovereign, or organization.
- molestful — (obsolete) troublesome; vexatious.
- mortifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mortify.
- nosferatu — Alternative form of Nosferatu.
- obfuscate — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- of theirs — belonging to or associated with them
- off-piste — of or relating to skiing on virgin snow off the regular runs
- oftenness — (rare) The quality of happening often; frequency.
- outfields — Plural form of outfield.
- 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.
- pantofles — a slipper.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- reformist — a person who advocates or practices reform; reformer.
- restiform — (esp of bundles of nerve fibres) shaped like a cord or rope; cordlike
- 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.
- sea front — an area, including buildings, along the edge of the sea; waterfront.
- septiform — sevenfold
- set forth — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- shotfirer — a person employed to detonate an explosive
- side-foot — In football, if a player side-foots the ball, they kick it with the side of their foot.
- soft lens — a nonrigid contact lens made of porous plastic, having a high water content that is replenished from eye surface moisture.
- soft line — a position or policy, as in politics, that is moderate and flexible.
- soft sell — gentle persuasion to buy sth
- soft-core — of, relating to, or containing sexually arousing depictions that are not fully explicit: soft-core pornography. Compare hard-core (def 2).
- soft-sell — to promote (a product, service, etc.) using indirect or gentle persuasion: an advertising campaign to soft-sell a new perfume.
- soft-shoe — of, relating to, or characteristic of tap dancing done in soft-soled shoes, without taps.
- softbench — An IPSE from Hewlett-Packard.
- softcover — paperback edition of a book
- soften up — make softer
- 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.
- sootflake — a smudge or speck of soot
- spadefoot — spadefoot toad.
- spot fine — penalty paid immediately