9-letter words containing f, i, e, n, s
- life span — the longest period over which the life of any organism or species may extend, according to the available biological knowledge concerning it.
- lifelines — Plural form of lifeline.
- lifespans — Plural form of lifespan.
- line fish — fish caught by lines rather than nets
- loftiness — extending high in the air; of imposing height; towering: lofty mountains.
- magnifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of magnify.
- manifesto — a public declaration of intentions, opinions, objectives, or motives, as one issued by a government, sovereign, or organization.
- manifests — Plural form of manifest.
- mansfield — a city in W Nottinghamshire, in central England.
- mineshaft — A vertical hole, sunk down through the strata to reach the mineral which was to be mined.
- misdefine — to define wrongly or badly
- nefarious — extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous: a nefarious plot.
- news film — a film showing main events in the news
- niftiness — Quality of being nifty.
- nitrifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nitrify.
- nullifies — to render or declare legally void or inoperative: to nullify a contract.
- offension — (obsolete) assault; attack.
- offensive — causing resentful displeasure; highly irritating, angering, or annoying: offensive television commercials.
- offerings — Plural form of offering.
- pecksniff — a person of Pecksniffian attitudes or behavior: a virtuousness that only a pecksniff could aspire to.
- perfusion — the act of perfusing.
- personify — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- queenfish — a silvery and bluish drum, Seriphus politus, inhabiting shallow waters along the coast of California.
- 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.
- refurnish — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- refusenik — a Soviet citizen, usually Jewish, who was denied permission to emigrate from the Soviet Union.
- renfierst — made fierce; enraged
- rosefinch — any of various finches with pink patches
- 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
- seafaring — traveling by sea.
- seif dune — (in deserts, esp the Sahara) a long ridge of blown sand, often several miles long
- semifinal — of or relating to the round preceding the final one in a tournament from which losers are eliminated.
- sex fiend — a person who commits sexual offences
- sherifian — pertaining to a descendant of Muhammad through his daughter Fatima
- signified — the thing or concept denoted by a sign.
- signifier — a person or thing that signifies.
- signifies — (in linguistics) the signified.
- sinn fein — a political organization in Ireland, founded about 1905, advocating the complete political separation from Great Britain of a unified Ireland.
- snakefish — lizardfish.
- sniffable — capable of being sniffed
- snipe fly — any of various predatory dipterous flies of the family Leptidae (or Rhagionidae), such as Rhagio scolopacea of Europe, having an elongated body and long legs
- snipefish — any of several fishes of the family Macrorhamphosidae, of tropical and temperate seas, having a long, tubular snout and a compressed body.
- snowfield — a large and relatively permanent expanse of snow.
- soft line — a position or policy, as in politics, that is moderate and flexible.
- solemnify — to make solemn: to solemnify an occasion with hymns and prayers.
- solferino — a village in SE Lombardy, in N Italy: battle 1859. 1811.
- spot fine — penalty paid immediately
- stiffened — to make stiff.