9-letter words containing f, i, t, e, s
- self-pity — pity for oneself, especially a self-indulgent attitude concerning one's own difficulties, hardships, etc.: We must resist yielding to self-pity and carry on as best we can.
- semistiff — somewhat or fairly stiff; partially stiff
- septemfid — divided into seven
- septiform — sevenfold
- sheatfish — a large, freshwater catfish, Silurus glanis, inhabiting rivers in central and eastern Europe, sometimes reaching a weight of 400 pounds (181.4 kg).
- shelflist — a record of the books and other materials in a library arranged in the order in which the materials are stored on shelves.
- shift key — a typewriter key that determines whether characters are printed in upper or lower case and controls the printing of numbers and symbols.
- shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.
- shiftless — lacking in resourcefulness; inefficient; lazy.
- shitfaced — very drunk.
- 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 line — a position or policy, as in politics, that is moderate and flexible.
- spot fine — penalty paid immediately
- stiffened — to make stiff.
- stiffener — a person or thing that stiffens.
- stiffness — rigid or firm; difficult or impossible to bend or flex: a stiff collar.
- stiffware — a type of computer software that is difficult to modify
- stonefish — a tropical scorpion fish, Synanceja verrucosa, having dorsal-fin spines from which a deadly poison is discharged.
- strifeful — vigorous or bitter conflict, discord, or antagonism: to be at strife.
- stupefied — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- sulfatize — to convert into a sulfate, as by the roasting of ores.
- surfeited — excess; an excessive amount: a surfeit of speechmaking.
- sutcliffe — Herbert. 1894–1978, English cricketer, who played for Yorkshire; scorer of 149 centuries and 1000 runs in a season 24 times
- sweetfish — a sweet-tasting omnivorous fish, native to Japan
- swiftness — moving or capable of moving with great speed or velocity; fleet; rapid: a swift ship.
- test film — a short film that serves as an example of a longer work
- testifier — to bear witness; give or afford evidence.
- tigerfish — a large, voracious, freshwater game fish, Hydrocyenus goliath, of African rivers.
- time fuse — a fuse designed to burn for a given time, esp to explode a bomb
- unfairest — most unfair
- unshifted — (of a keyboard shift key) not pressed or activated.
- unstifled — to quell, crush, or end by force: to stifle a revolt; to stifle free expression.
- up-itself — pretentious or pompous
- welfarist — the set of attitudes and policies characterizing or tending toward the establishment of a welfare state.
- westfield — a city in S Massachusetts.
- whitefish — any of several fishes of the family Coregonidae, inhabiting northern waters of North America and Eurasia, similar to the trout but having a smaller mouth and larger scales. Compare lake whitefish, round whitefish.