9-letter words containing f, o, s
- 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 rock — a comparatively unaggressive, melodic style of rock-'n'-roll in which the arrangement and lyrics are emphasized more than the beat.
- soft sell — gentle persuasion to buy sth
- 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 spot — a weak or vulnerable position, place, condition, etc.: a soft spot in their fortifications; a soft spot in the economy.
- soft tick — any of numerous ticks of the family Argasidae, lacking a dorsal shield and having the mouthparts on the underside of the head.
- 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-core — of, relating to, or containing sexually arousing depictions that are not fully explicit: soft-core pornography. Compare hard-core (def 2).
- 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.
- soft-shoe — of, relating to, or characteristic of tap dancing done in soft-soled shoes, without taps.
- soft-soap — Informal. to cajole; flatter.
- softbench — An IPSE from Hewlett-Packard.
- softboard — a soft, porous particle board.
- softbound — book: paperback
- softcover — paperback edition of a book
- soften up — make softer
- softgoods — clothing and soft furniture
- softmodem — The integration of modem controller and data pump algorithms into a single RAM-based DSP hardware architecture. These integrated algorithms are stored on the computer's hard disk, from which they are downloaded into the DSP board's random-access memory (RAM). This downloading, or "booting" process of the PC-installed software algorithms occurs as part of the computer's power-up initialisation process in less than 100 milliseconds, making it transparent to the user.
- 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.
- songcraft — the art of songwriting
- sootflake — a smudge or speck of soot
- soothfast — based on the truth; true.
- soporific — causing or tending to cause sleep.
- sorrowful — full of or feeling sorrow; grieved; sad.
- soufriere — Also, La Soufrière. a volcano in the West Indies, on St. Vincent island. 4048 feet (1234 meters).
- soul food — traditional black American cookery, which originated in the rural South, consisting of such foods as chitterlings, pig knuckles, turnip greens, and cornbread.
- sound off — the sensation produced by stimulation of the organs of hearing by vibrations transmitted through the air or other medium.
- sourceful — any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin: Which foods are sources of calcium?
- sous chef — the second in command in a kitchen; the person ranking next after the head chef.
- sous-chef — the second in command in a kitchen; the person ranking next after the head chef.
- soy flour — finely ground soybeans, most commonly used as an additive to other flours, processed meats, cereals, etc.
- spadefoot — spadefoot toad.
- span roof — a roof having two slopes of equal breadth and pitch meeting at a common ridge.
- spark off — cause, provoke
- speak for — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
- spiel off — to recite by or as if by rote
- spiniform — like a thorn or spine
- spinproof — (of an airplane) designed so as to be highly resistant to a tailspin.
- splayfoot — a broad, flat foot, especially one turned outward.
- split off — separate from group