9-letter words containing f, s
- comfiness — the feeling or quality of being comfortable
- conchfish — a cardinalfish, Astropogon stellatus, of the Atlantic Ocean.
- conferees — Plural form of conferee.
- confessed — You use confessed to describe someone who openly admits that they have a particular fault or have done something wrong.
- confesser — Alternative form of confessor.
- confesses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of confess.
- confessio — (legal) A confession; A defense of one's faith, or a confession of guilt.
- confessor — A confessor is a priest who hears a person's confession.
- confiseur — a confectioner
- conflates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conflate.
- conflicts — Plural form of conflict.
- confluxes — Plural form of conflux.
- confounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of confound.
- confreres — Plural form of confrere.
- confronts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of confront.
- confucius — Chinese name Kong Zi or K'ung Fu-tse. 551–479 bc, Chinese philosopher and teacher of ethics (see Confucianism). His doctrines were compiled after his death under the title The Analects of Confucius
- confusing — Something that is confusing makes it difficult for people to know exactly what is happening or what to do.
- confusion — If there is confusion about something, it is not clear what the true situation is, especially because people believe different things.
- corfhouse — a shed used for curing salmon and storing nets
- cowfishes — Plural form of cowfish.
- cowlstaff — a staff or pole used by two people to carry a vessel, sometimes used as a weapon
- craftiest — Superlative form of crafty.
- craftless — without craft or cunning
- craftsman — A craftsman is a man who makes things skilfully with his hands.
- craftsmen — a person who practices or is highly skilled in a craft; artisan.
- crampfish — a ray of the order Torpediniformes with electric organs on either side of its head
- cross fox — a red fox in the color phase in which the fur is reddish brown with a dark stripe down the back and another over the shoulders.
- cross off — If you cross off words on a list, you decide that they no longer belong on the list, and often you draw a line through them to indicate this.
- crossfall — the camber of a road
- crossfire — Crossfire is gunfire, for example in a battle, that comes from two or more different directions and passes through the same area.
- crossfish — a starfish
- crossfoot — Accounting. to total figures horizontally across columns instead of vertically.
- crossruff — the alternate trumping of each other's leads by two partners, or by declarer and dummy
- crowfoots — Plural form of crowfoot.
- crucifers — Plural form of crucifer.
- crucifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crucify.
- cufflinks — one of a pair of linked ornamental buttons or buttonlike devices for fastening a shirt cuff.
- cyberself — An alternate self on the Internet or in cyberspace; an online alter-ego.
- cystiform — resembling a cyst
- daffiness — silliness; craziness
- daffodils — Plural form of daffodil.
- damselfly — any insect of the suborder Zygoptera similar to but smaller than dragonflies and usually resting with the wings closed over the back: order Odonata
- dandifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dandify.
- day shift — a group of workers who work a shift during the daytime in an industry or occupation where a night shift or a back shift is also worked
- de forest — Lee. 1873–1961, US inventor of telegraphic, telephonic, and radio equipment: patented the first triode valve (1907)
- deadfalls — Plural form of deadfall.
- defeasing — to defeat or annul (a contract, deed, etc.).
- defeatism — Defeatism is a way of thinking or talking which suggests that you expect to be unsuccessful.
- defeatist — A defeatist is someone who thinks or talks in a way that suggests that they expect to be unsuccessful.
- defecates — to void excrement from the bowels through the anus; have a bowel movement.