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9-letter words containing f, l, s, a

  • praiseful — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
  • pratfalls — a fall in which one lands on the buttocks, often regarded as comical or humiliating.
  • qualifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of qualify.
  • 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.
  • red flash — a red coloration of the lower portion of the sun, occasionally seen as the sun rises above or sinks to the horizon.
  • rijstafel — an assortment of Indonesian side dishes accompanied by rice
  • sablefish — a large, blackish food fish, Anoplopoma fimbria, inhabiting waters of the North Pacific.
  • safelight — a darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.
  • safflower — a thistlelike composite plant, Carthamus tinctorius, native to the Old World, having finely toothed leaves and large, orange-red flower heads.
  • salt beef — beef that has been preserved in salt
  • salt flat — an extensive level tract coated with salt deposits left by evaporation of rising ground water or a temporary body of surface water.
  • salt-free — containing or involving no salt
  • sand flea — beach flea.
  • scaldfish — a small European flatfish, Arnoglossus laterna, covered with large fragile scales: family Bothidae
  • scatheful — causing harm or injury
  • sea-floor — the solid surface underlying a sea or an ocean.
  • seed leaf — a cotyledon.
  • 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-care — care of the self without medical or other professional consultation.
  • self-harm — injury inflicted deliberately on yourself
  • self-hate — to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest: to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry.
  • self-made — having succeeded in life unaided: He is a self-made man.
  • self-mate — a move that will cause a player's king to be mated within a certain number of subsequent moves.
  • self-paid — a simple past tense and past participle of pay1 .
  • self-same — You use self-same when you want to emphasize that the person or thing mentioned is exactly the same as the one mentioned previously.
  • self-talk — motivational thoughts, affirmations
  • self-want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
  • selfwards — in the direction of oneself
  • semifinal — of or relating to the round preceding the final one in a tournament from which losers are eliminated.
  • sfd-algol — System Function Description-ALGOL. Extension of ALGOL for synchronous systems. Sammet 1969, p.625.
  • shaftless — lacking a shaft
  • sheaflike — resembling a sheaf
  • shelfware — Computers. software or hardware that remains unsold, unused, or underused: shelfware as part of a bundled license deal.
  • shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.
  • shortfall — the quantity or extent by which something falls short; deficiency; shortage.
  • show flat — a newly-build flat that is decorated and furnished for prospective buyers to view
  • slack off — not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
  • slashfest — a film, animated film, or computer game in which victims are killed bloodily using blades
  • small fry — child
  • snailfish — any of several elongate, smooth-skinned fishes of the family Liparididae, inhabiting cold seas, having the ventral fins modified to form a sucking disk.
  • snake fly — any neuropterous insect of the family Raphidiidae, of western North America, having an elongated prothorax resembling a neck.
  • sniffable — capable of being sniffed
  • snowflake — one of the small, feathery masses or flakes in which snow falls.
  • soft clam — soft-shell clam.
  • soft coal — bituminous coal.
  • soft hail — snow pellets.
  • soft loan — A soft loan is a loan with a very low interest rate. Soft loans are usually made to developing countries or to businesses in developing countries.
  • soft-land — to cause to land slowly and without jarring impact: to soft-land the module on the planet's surface.
  • solfatara — a fumarole that gives off only sulfurous gases.
  • sootflake — a smudge or speck of soot
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