9-letter words containing f, o, s
- off-sales — sales of alcoholic drink for consumption off the premises by a pub or an off-licence attached to a pub
- off-shore — situated off the coast, at sea
- off-speed — slower than usual or expected, as a baseball pitch.
- offenders — Plural form of offender.
- offension — (obsolete) assault; attack.
- offensive — causing resentful displeasure; highly irritating, angering, or annoying: offensive television commercials.
- offerings — Plural form of offering.
- officials — Plural form of official.
- officious — objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome: an officious person.
- offprints — Plural form of offprint.
- offsaddle — (transitive, chiefly, South Africa) To unsaddle; remove the saddle from.
- offscreen — occurring, existing, or done away from the motion-picture or television screen: an offscreen voice.
- offseason — a time of year other than the regular or busiest one for a specific activity: Fares are lower in the off-season.
- offshoots — Plural form of offshoot.
- offshored — Simple past tense and past participle of offshore.
- offshores — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of offshore.
- offsiders — Plural form of offsider.
- offspring — children or young of a particular parent or progenitor.
- oftenness — (rare) The quality of happening often; frequency.
- oilfields — Plural form of oilfield.
- oily fish — any variety of fish, such as the sardine, mackerel, salmon or trout; that has oils throughout its body rather than stored solely in the liver
- olfactics — The study of smells and how they are perceived.
- ossifraga — a large fulmar
- ossifrage — the lammergeier.
- ossifying — Present participle of ossify.
- outfields — Plural form of outfield.
- outflanks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outflank.
- overfalls — Oceanography. water made rough by a strong current moving over a shoal, by an opposing current, or by winds blowing against the current.
- overflush — too flush
- overfocus — to focus too much
- overfussy — too fussy
- overstaff — to provide an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- overstuff — to force too much into: If you overstuff your suitcase, the fastenings may not hold.
- oviferous — bearing eggs.
- pantofles — a slipper.
- perforans — (of nerves, muscles, or blood vessels) perforating or penetrating other anatomical structures
- perfusion — the act of perfusing.
- personify — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- petaflops — (unit) 10^15 flops or 1000 teraflops. As with flops, the term ends in S in both the singular and plural as the S stands for seconds. The first computer to perform one petaflops was recorded in June 2008. By June 2012 there were 20.
- pilotfish — a small, marine fish, Naucrates ductor, often swimming with sharks.
- pisciform — shaped like a fish.
- platforms — a horizontal surface or structure with a horizontal surface raised above the level of the surrounding area.
- pollyfish — parrotfish.
- post-free — British. postpaid.
- postfault — taking place after a fault
- postfixal — of or relating to a postfix, having postfixes
- profaners — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- professed — avowed; acknowledged.
- professor — a teacher of the highest academic rank in a college or university, who has been awarded the title Professor in a particular branch of learning; a full professor: a professor of Spanish literature.
- profilist — a person who creates a profile