9-letter words containing f, s, t, a
- smart off — to be impertinent or flippant
- soft clam — soft-shell clam.
- soft coal — bituminous coal.
- soft hail — snow pellets.
- 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-land — to cause to land slowly and without jarring impact: to soft-land the module on the planet's surface.
- soft-soap — Informal. to cajole; flatter.
- softboard — a soft, porous particle board.
- solfatara — a fumarole that gives off only sulfurous gases.
- songcraft — the art of songwriting
- sootflake — a smudge or speck of soot
- soothfast — based on the truth; true.
- spadefoot — spadefoot toad.
- splayfoot — a broad, flat foot, especially one turned outward.
- staffroom — room for teachers at school
- stairfoot — the area at the foot of a flight of stairs
- stairlift — A stairlift is a device that is fitted to a staircase in a house in order to allow an elderly or sick person to go upstairs.
- stall-fed — (of animals) confined to and fed in a stall, especially for fattening.
- 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.
- stardrift — the very small continuous change in the direction of movement which is shared by the stars within a particular cluster
- start off — begin sth
- statfarad — the electrostatic unit of capacitance, equivalent to 1.1126 × 10 −12 farad and equal to the capacitance of a condenser in which one statcoulomb is transferred from one conductor of the condenser to the other per volt of potential difference between the conductors.
- stave off — one of the thin, narrow, shaped pieces of wood that form the sides of a cask, tub, or similar vessel.
- steadfast — fixed in direction; steadily directed: a steadfast gaze.
- sternfast — a rope for securing a boat at stern to another boat, dock, or buoy
- stiff arm — to push away (an opponent) with one's arm out straight
- stiff-arm — straight-arm.
- stiffware — a type of computer software that is difficult to modify
- stoneface — living stones.
- 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.
- stud farm — place where horses are bred
- styrofoam — Styrofoam is a very light, plastic substance, used especially to make containers.
- suffocate — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- sulfatase — any of a class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of sulfuric acid esters.
- sulfation — Chemistry. a salt or ester of sulfuric acid.
- sulfatize — to convert into a sulfate, as by the roasting of ores.
- sulfonate — an ester or salt derived from a sulfonic acid.
- sulfurate — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur, the fumes of burning sulfur, etc.
- superfast — very or extremely fast
- surf boat — a strong, buoyant rowboat with high ends, adapted for beaching and passing through surf.
- surf-cast — to fish by casting into the surf from or near the shore
- sweat off — to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
- sweetleaf — a shrub or small tree, Symplocos tinctoria, of the eastern coast of the U.S., having lance-shaped leaves, yellowish, fragrant flowers, and orange or brown fruit.
- tailfirst — with the tail or rear part foremost.
- tanstaafl — /tan'stah-fl/ (From Robert Heinlein's classic "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress") "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch". Often invoked when someone is balking at the prospect of using an unpleasantly heavyweight technique, or at the poor quality of some piece of free software, or at the signal-to-noise ratio of unmoderated Usenet newsgroups. "What? Don't tell me I have to implement a database back end to get my address book program to work!" "Well, TANSTAAFL you know." This phrase owes some of its popularity to the high concentration of science-fiction fans and political libertarians in hackerdom.
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.