9-letter words containing f, s
- brush off — If someone brushes you off when you speak to them, they refuse to talk to you or be nice to you.
- brush-off — a refusal to talk or listen to someone; abrupt or final dismissal or rebuff.
- brushfire — a fire in bushes and scrub
- bursiform — shaped like a pouch or sac
- bushcraft — ability and experience in matters concerned with living in the bush
- bushelful — an amount equal to the capacity of a bushel.
- caddisfly — any small mothlike insect of the order Trichoptera, having two pairs of hairy wings and aquatic larvae (caddisworms)
- calcifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calcify.
- calfskins — Plural form of calfskin.
- campfires — Plural form of campfire.
- camshafts — Plural form of camshaft.
- caprifigs — Plural form of caprifig.
- carnifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of carnify.
- case file — a file kept on a person who is involved in a medical, legal, or social work investigation
- cash flow — The cash flow of a firm or business is the movement of money into and out of it.
- catfights — Plural form of catfight.
- catfished — Simple past tense and past participle of catfish.
- catfishes — Plural form of catfish.
- ceasefire — A ceasefire is an arrangement in which countries or groups of people that are fighting each other agree to stop fighting.
- cents-off — of or relating to a marketing device, as a coupon, that entitles a buyer to a specified amount off the regular price.
- certifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of certify.
- chaffings — Plural form of chaffing.
- chamfrons — Plural form of chamfron.
- chayefsky — Paddy [pad-ee] /ˈpæd i/ (Show IPA), 1923–1981, U.S. playwright and director.
- chiefless — having no ruler or leader
- chiefship — the post or situation of a chief
- christoff — Boris. 1919–93, Bulgarian bass-baritone, noted esp for his performance in the title role of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov
- cissified — effeminate
- clafoutis — a French baked pudding
- clarifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clarify.
- classific — relating to classification
- cliffside — The side of a cliff.
- clingfish — any small marine teleost fish of the family Gobiesocidae, having a flattened elongated body with a sucking disc beneath the head for clinging to rocks, etc
- close off — To close something off means to separate it from other things or people so that they cannot go there.
- closetful — a quantity that may be contained in a closet
- clownfish — any of several brightly coloured striped fish of the subfamily Amphiprioninae of the Pacific and Indian Oceans
- club sofa — a heavily upholstered sofa having solid sides and a low back.
- clubfaces — Plural form of clubface.
- coalfaces — Plural form of coalface.
- cocklofts — Plural form of cockloft.
- cocksfoot — a perennial Eurasian grass, Dactylis glomerata, cultivated as a pasture grass in North America and South Africa
- codfishes — Plural form of codfish.
- codifiers — Plural form of codifier.
- cofactors — Plural form of cofactor.
- coiffeuse — a female hairdresser
- coiffures — Plural form of coiffure.
- cold fish — If you say that someone is a cold fish, you think that they are unfriendly and unemotional.
- coliforms — Plural form of coliform.
- colorfast — A fabric that is colorfast has a color that will not get paler when the fabric is washed or worn.
- coltsfoot — a European plant, Tussilago farfara, with yellow daisy-like flowers and heart-shaped leaves: a common weed: family Asteraceae (composites)