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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
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