9-letter words containing f, s
- astroturf — Astroturf is a type of artificial fiber that is used instead of grass on some sports fields.
- autofocus — a device that focuses a lens, camera, etc. automatically
- avifaunas — Plural form of avifauna.
- awfulness — The quality of striking with awe, or with reverence; dreadfulness; solemnity; as, the awfulness of this sacred place.
- babashoff — Shirley, born 1957, U.S. swimmer.
- backfiles — Plural form of backfile.
- backfills — Plural form of backfill.
- backfires — Plural form of backfire.
- backfisch — a teenage girl; a girl who has not yet reached maturity
- backflash — a flashback: Backflashes of the heroine's childhood fill in gaps in the novel's narrative.
- backflips — Plural form of backflip.
- backflows — Plural form of backflow.
- backlifts — Plural form of backlift.
- backshift — The changing of a present tense in direct speech to a past tense in reported speech (or a past tense to pluperfect).
- barfulous — /bar'fyoo-l*s/ (Or "barfucious", /bar-fyoo-sh*s/) Said of something that would make anyone barf, if only for aesthetic reasons.
- base form — the simplest form of a word, to which inflections may be added
- bashfully — In a bashful manner.
- basifixed — (of an anther) attached to the filament by its base
- basketful — a sufficient quantity to fill a basket; the amount contained in a basket.
- basrelief — Alternative form of bas-relief.
- bass clef — the clef that establishes F a fifth below middle C on the fourth line of the staff
- beadflush — (of paneling) having panels flush with their stiles and rails and surrounded with a flush bead.
- beanfeast — A beanfeast is a party or other social event.
- beardfish — any of several fishes of the family Polymyxiidae, found in the deeper waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, having a pair of long barbels under the chin.
- beatifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beatify.
- beefcakes — Plural form of beefcake.
- beefiness — The characteristic of being beefy.
- beefsteak — Beefsteak is steak.
- beni suef — city in NE Egypt, on the Nile: pop. 152,000
- beni-suef — a city in NW Egypt on the Nile River.
- beresford — Bruce. born 1940, Australian film director. His films include The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972), Breaker Morant (1980), Driving Miss Daisy (1989) and Evelyn (2002)
- bifarious — having parts arranged in two rows on either side of a central axis
- biofibres — vegetable, animal, or mineral fibres existing in nature which are used by man
- biosafety — the precautions taken to control the cultivation and distribution of genetically modified crops and products
- bisulfate — an acid sulfate containing the monovalent negative radical HSO4
- bisulfide — disulfide
- bisulfite — an acid sulfite containing the monovalent negative radical HSO3
- bitchfest — a malicious and spiteful discussion of people, events, etc
- blackfish — a minnow-like Alaskan freshwater fish, Dallia pectoralis, related to the pikes and thought to be able to survive prolonged freezing
- blast off — When a space rocket blasts off, it leaves the ground at the start of its journey.
- blindfish — any of various small fishes, esp the cavefish, that have rudimentary or functionless eyes and occur in subterranean streams
- blueshift — a shift in the spectral lines of a stellar spectrum towards the blue end of the visible region relative to the wavelengths of these lines in the terrestrial spectrum: a result of the Doppler effect caused by stars approaching the solar system
- bob-fosse — Robert Louis ("Bob") 1927–87, U.S. dancer, choreographer, and theater and film director.
- body-surf — to ride a wave by lying on it without a surfboard
- bony fish — any fish of the class Osteichthyes, including most of the extant species, having a skeleton of bone rather than cartilage
- bookshelf — A bookshelf is a shelf on which you keep books.
- box-fresh — unused or unspoiled; straight from the packaging
- breakfast — Breakfast is the first meal of the day. It is usually eaten in the early part of the morning.
- briefcase — A briefcase is a case used for carrying documents in.
- briefless — (said of a barrister) without clients