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