9-letter words containing f, o, r, t, s
- shiftwork — a system of employment where an individual's normal hours of work are, in part, outside the period of normal day working and may follow a different pattern in consecutive periods of weeks
- shoot for — to hit, wound, damage, kill, or destroy with a missile discharged from a weapon.
- shopcraft — any of various skilled trades involving maintenance or repair work, as metalworking or boilermaking, especially in the railroad industry.
- shopfront — the area of a shop that faces street
- short for — having little length; not long.
- shortfall — the quantity or extent by which something falls short; deficiency; shortage.
- shotfirer — a person employed to detonate an explosive
- shotproof — able to withstand shot
- smart off — to be impertinent or flippant
- snowdrift — a mound or bank of snow driven together by the wind.
- soffritto — Also called battuto. Italian Cookery. a base for stews and soups, consisting of hot oil, butter, or fat in which a chopped onion or crushed garlic clove has been browned, often with the addition of chopped parsley, celery, and carrot.
- soft drug — a drug, usually illicit, that does not produce significant psychological or physical dependence.
- soft iron — iron that has a low carbon content and is easily magnetized and demagnetized with a small hysteresis loss
- soft porn — soft-core pornography.
- soft rock — a comparatively unaggressive, melodic style of rock-'n'-roll in which the arrangement and lyrics are emphasized more than the beat.
- soft-core — of, relating to, or containing sexually arousing depictions that are not fully explicit: soft-core pornography. Compare hard-core (def 2).
- softboard — a soft, porous particle board.
- softcover — paperback edition of a book
- solfatara — a fumarole that gives off only sulfurous gases.
- songcraft — the art of songwriting
- staffroom — room for teachers at school
- stairfoot — the area at the foot of a flight of stairs
- stand for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- start off — begin sth
- strafford — 1st Earl of (Thomas Wentworth) 1593–1641, English statesman: chief adviser of Charles I of England.
- stratford — a town in SW Connecticut, near Bridgeport: Shakespeare theater.
- stretford — an industrial town in NW England, in Trafford unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 42 103 (2001)
- strip off — remove clothes
- styliform — having the shape of an ancient style; stylar.
- styrofoam — Styrofoam is a very light, plastic substance, used especially to make containers.
- supersoft — exceptionally soft
- surf boat — a strong, buoyant rowboat with high ends, adapted for beaching and passing through surf.
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
- transform — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- trifocals — glasses with trifocal lenses
- ultrasoft — extremely soft