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9-letter words containing f, l, s

  • self-love — the instinct by which one's actions are directed to the promotion of one's own welfare or well-being, especially an excessive regard for one's own advantage.
  • 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-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.
  • self-rule — a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.: the rules of chess.
  • 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-sown — sown by itself, or without human or animal agency, as of a plant grown from seeds dropped from another plant.
  • self-talk — motivational thoughts, affirmations
  • self-test — a test that can be administered to oneself.
  • self-want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
  • self-will — stubborn or obstinate willfulness, as in pursuing one's own wishes, aims, etc.
  • selfishly — devoted to or caring only for oneself; concerned primarily with one's own interests, benefits, welfare, etc., regardless of others.
  • selfridge — Harry Gordon, 1857?–1947, British retail merchant, born in the U.S.
  • 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.
  • semifluid — imperfectly fluid; having both fluid and solid characteristics; semiliquid.
  • serrefile — an officer placed in the rearmost file of soldiers in a troop
  • sevenfold — comprising seven parts or members.
  • sfd-algol — System Function Description-ALGOL. Extension of ALGOL for synchronous systems. Sammet 1969, p.625.
  • shaftless — lacking a shaft
  • sheaflike — resembling a sheaf
  • sheepfold — an enclosure for sheep.
  • sheffield — a city in South Yorkshire, in N England.
  • shelf ice — ice forming part of or broken from an ice shelf.
  • shelflist — a record of the books and other materials in a library arranged in the order in which the materials are stored on shelves.
  • shelfroom — the space on a shelf
  • shelfware — Computers. software or hardware that remains unsold, unused, or underused: shelfware as part of a bundled license deal.
  • shellfire — the firing of explosive shells or projectiles.
  • shellfish — an aquatic animal having a shell, as the oyster and other mollusks and the lobster and other crustaceans.
  • shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.
  • shiftless — lacking in resourcefulness; inefficient; lazy.
  • shore fly — any of numerous small black flies of the family Ephydridae, found in damp or marshy locations.
  • shortfall — the quantity or extent by which something falls short; deficiency; shortage.
  • shovelful — the amount held by a shovel.
  • show flat — a newly-build flat that is decorated and furnished for prospective buyers to view
  • showerful — abundant
  • shuffling — moving in a dragging or clumsy manner.
  • siffleuse — a female professional whistler
  • siftingly — by a sifting process
  • sinfjotli — the son of Signy by her brother Sigmund.
  • skiffless — without a skiff
  • skinflick — film containing much nudity and sex
  • skinflint — a mean, niggardly person; miser.
  • 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
  • sleep off — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
  • sling off — to laugh or jeer (at)
  • slip flow — gas flow occurring at hypersonic speeds in which molecular shearing occurs
  • slip form — a form into which concrete is poured that can be slowly moved and reused in construction, as of a pavement or a building.
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