9-letter words containing f, n, t
- reflation — restoration of economic activity, consumer prices, etc., to higher levels by manipulating monetary policy.
- refulgent — shining brightly; radiant; gleaming: Crystal chandeliers and gilded walls made the opera house a refulgent setting for the ball.
- reinflate — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- renfierst — made fierce; enraged
- rent-free — without payment of rent: We lived rent-free for six months.
- resentful — full of or marked by resentment.
- rift zone — a system of related, narrow structural depressions between parallel faults.
- rotiferan — relating to the phylum of freshwater invertebrates Rotifera
- rufescent — somewhat reddish; tinged with red; rufous.
- run after — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- runecraft — understanding of and skill working with runes
- saintfoin — sainfoin.
- sea front — an area, including buildings, along the edge of the sea; waterfront.
- self-want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
- shopfront — the area of a shop that faces street
- siftingly — by a sifting process
- sinfjotli — the son of Signy by her brother Sigmund.
- skinflint — a mean, niggardly person; miser.
- sniff out — detect
- snowdrift — a mound or bank of snow driven together by the wind.
- snuff out — the charred or partly consumed portion of a candlewick.
- soft iron — iron that has a low carbon content and is easily magnetized and demagnetized with a small hysteresis loss
- 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 porn — soft-core pornography.
- soft sign — the Cyrillic letter (ь) as used in Russian to indicate that the preceding consonant is palatalized, or to represent (y) between a palatalized consonant and a vowel. See also jer (def 1).
- soft-land — to cause to land slowly and without jarring impact: to soft-land the module on the planet's surface.
- softbench — An IPSE from Hewlett-Packard.
- softbound — book: paperback
- soften up — make softer
- songcraft — the art of songwriting
- spindrift — spray swept by a violent wind along the surface of the sea.
- spot fine — penalty paid immediately
- stand for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- stand off — a standing off or apart; aloofness.
- stand-off — a standing off or apart; aloofness.
- standfast — a rigid or unyielding position.
- stenchful — malodorous; foul-smelling
- sternfast — a rope for securing a boat at stern to another boat, dock, or buoy
- 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.
- stoneface — living stones.
- stonefish — a tropical scorpion fish, Synanceja verrucosa, having dorsal-fin spines from which a deadly poison is discharged.
- sulfation — Chemistry. a salt or ester of sulfuric acid.
- sulfonate — an ester or salt derived from a sulfonic acid.
- swiftness — moving or capable of moving with great speed or velocity; fleet; rapid: a swift ship.
- tafelwein — German table wine
- tamoxifen — an antineoplastic drug, C 26 H 29 NO, that blocks the estrogen receptors on cancer cells, used in the treatment of breast cancer.