5-letter words containing f, s
- nswtf — New South Wales Teachers Federation (Australia)
- ofays — a contemptuous term used to refer to a white person.
- ofgas — Office of Gas Supply: merged with Offer in 1999 to form Ofgem
- ofris — the Frisian language before c1500. Abbreviation: OFris.
- profs — Professional Office System
- roofs — the external upper covering of a house or other building.
- rsfsr — (formerly) Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
- rufus — a male given name: from a Latin word meaning “red-headed.”.
- s afr — South Africa
- safar — the second month of the Muslim calendar.
- safer — secure from liability to harm, injury, danger, or risk: a safe place.
- sarfu — South African Rugby Football Union
- scaff — food
- scanf — The C library routine that reads data from the standard input stream stdin into the locations given by each entry in its argument list. The first argument is a format string which controls interpretation of the input and each subsequent argument points to a variable with a type that corresponds to a type specifier in the format-string.
- scarf — a long, broad strip of wool, silk, lace, or other material worn about the neck, shoulders, or head, for ornament or protection against cold, drafts, etc.; muffler.
- scoff — to speak derisively; mock; jeer (often followed by at): If you can't do any better, don't scoff. Their efforts toward a peaceful settlement are not to be scoffed at.
- scuff — to scrape (something) with one's foot or feet.
- scuft — the nape or back of the neck
- scurf — the scales or small shreds of epidermis that are continually exfoliated from the skin.
- sefer — the scrolls of the Law
- self- — Self- is used to form words which indicate that you do something to yourself or by yourself.
- selfs — a person or thing referred to with respect to complete individuality: one's own self.
- serif — a smaller line used to finish off a main stroke of a letter, as at the top and bottom of M.
- shaef — Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces
- shaft — a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows.
- sheaf — one of the bundles in which cereal plants, as wheat, rye, etc., are bound after reaping.
- shelf — a thin slab of wood, metal, etc., fixed horizontally to a wall or in a frame, for supporting objects.
- shift — to put (something) aside and replace it by another or others; change or exchange: to shift friends; to shift ideas.
- shufu — former name of Kashi.
- skaif — a wheel on which diamonds and other gems are ground or polished.
- skeef — at an oblique angle; not straight
- skeif — a wheel on which diamonds and other gems are ground or polished.
- skelf — a splinter of wood, esp when embedded accidentally in the skin
- skiff — any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person.
- skoff — a stage of a journey
- sluff — the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.
- snafu — a badly confused or ridiculously muddled situation: A ballot snafu in the election led to a recount. Synonyms: snarl, bedlam, tumult, disarray, disorder, confusion, mess; foul-up. Antonyms: order, efficiency, calm.
- snarf — to eat quickly and voraciously; scarf (often followed by down or up).
- sniff — to draw air through the nose in short, audible inhalations.
- snuff — to cut off or remove the snuff of (candles, tapers, etc.).
- sofar — a system for determining a position at sea by exploding a charge under water and measuring the time the shock waves take to reach three widely separated shore stations at known distances from each other.
- sofer — scribe1 (def 3).
- sofia — a republic in SE Europe. 42,800 sq. mi. (110,850 sq. km). Capital: Sofia.
- softa — a Turkish Muslim theological student.
- softs — yielding readily to touch or pressure; easily penetrated, divided, or changed in shape; not hard or stiff: a soft pillow.
- softy — a person easily stirred to sentiment or tender emotion.
- spiff — to reward (a salesperson) with a spiff.
- spoof — a mocking imitation of someone or something, usually light and good-humored; lampoon or parody: The show was a spoof of college life.
- staff — a group of persons, as employees, charged with carrying out the work of an establishment or executing some undertaking.
- stiff — rigid or firm; difficult or impossible to bend or flex: a stiff collar.