9-letter words containing f, l, s
- slow fire — a rate of firing small arms that allows time to aim before each shot.
- slow food — food that has been prepared with care, using high-quality local and seasonal ingredients
- slug flow — A slug flow is a condition of a fluidized bed in which large bubbles of gas form, which makes lumps of particles move.
- 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
- 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
- snowfield — a large and relatively permanent expanse of snow.
- 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 lens — a nonrigid contact lens made of porous plastic, having a high water content that is replenished from eye surface moisture.
- soft line — a position or policy, as in politics, that is moderate and flexible.
- 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 sell — gentle persuasion to buy sth
- soft-bill — any of numerous birds, as thrushes or tanagers, having relatively weak bills suited for eating insects, soft-bodied animals, and fruit rather than hard seeds.
- soft-boil — to boil (an egg) just long enough for the yolk and white to partially solidify, usually three or four minutes.
- soft-land — to cause to land slowly and without jarring impact: to soft-land the module on the planet's surface.
- soft-sell — to promote (a product, service, etc.) using indirect or gentle persuasion: an advertising campaign to soft-sell a new perfume.
- solemnify — to make solemn: to solemnify an occasion with hymns and prayers.
- solfatara — a fumarole that gives off only sulfurous gases.
- solfeggio — a vocal exercise in which the sol-fa syllables are used.
- solferino — a village in SE Lombardy, in N Italy: battle 1859. 1811.
- solid for — unanimously in favour of
- solifugid — sun spider.
- sootflake — a smudge or speck of soot
- sorrowful — full of or feeling sorrow; grieved; sad.
- soul food — traditional black American cookery, which originated in the rural South, consisting of such foods as chitterlings, pig knuckles, turnip greens, and cornbread.
- sourceful — any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin: Which foods are sources of calcium?
- soy flour — finely ground soybeans, most commonly used as an additive to other flours, processed meats, cereals, etc.
- speechful — full of speech or expression
- spiel off — to recite by or as if by rote
- spiritful — full of spirit or spiritual
- splayfoot — a broad, flat foot, especially one turned outward.
- spleenful — full of or displaying spleen.
- split off — separate from group
- split-off — the act of separating or splitting away from something else.
- spoil for — If you are spoiling for a fight, you are very eager for it to happen.
- spoilfive — a game played by two to ten persons having five cards each.
- spongefly — any of several insects of the family Sisyridae, the aquatic larvae of which feed on freshwater sponges.
- stairlift — A stairlift is a device that is fitted to a staircase in a house in order to allow an elderly or sick person to go upstairs.
- stall-fed — (of animals) confined to and fed in a stall, especially for fattening.
- stenchful — malodorous; foul-smelling
- streetful — the amount of people or things a street can hold
- stressful — full of stress or tension: the stressful days before a war.
- strifeful — vigorous or bitter conflict, discord, or antagonism: to be at strife.
- stuffless — without stuff
- styliform — having the shape of an ancient style; stylar.