8-letter words containing f, t, s
- soft top — the folding top of a convertible automobile.
- soft toy — stuffed plaything, plush
- soft-top — the folding top of a convertible automobile.
- softback — paperback book
- softball — a form of baseball played on a smaller diamond with a ball that is larger and softer than a baseball.
- softcore — of, relating to, or containing sexually arousing depictions that are not fully explicit: soft-core pornography. Compare hard-core (def 2).
- softener — Chemistry. any admixture to a substance for promoting or increasing its softness, smoothness, or plasticity. water softener.
- softhead — a half-witted or silly person
- softling — a weakling or something which has a soft nature
- softness — yielding readily to touch or pressure; easily penetrated, divided, or changed in shape; not hard or stiff: a soft pillow.
- software — Computers. the programs used to direct the operation of a computer, as well as documentation giving instructions on how to use them. Compare hardware (def 5).
- softwood — any wood that is relatively soft or easily cut.
- songfest — an informal, often spontaneous gathering at which people sing folk songs, popular ballads, etc.
- soothful — truthful
- soufflot — Jacques Germain [zhahk zher-man] /ʒɑk ʒɛrˈmɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1713–80, French architect.
- spatfall — a mass of larvae on the sea bed
- spiteful — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
- spitfire — a person, especially a girl or woman, who is of fiery temper and easily provoked to outbursts.
- staffage — all of the additional figures, animals and other items of ornamentation in a painted scene or landscape, as distinct from the main figures or elements of the composition
- staffing — a group of persons, as employees, charged with carrying out the work of an establishment or executing some undertaking.
- staffman — staffer.
- stafford — Jean, 1915–79, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- stageful — the number of people, or the amount of something, that fills a stage
- stamford — a city in SW Connecticut.
- standoff — a standing off or apart; aloofness.
- stanford — (Amasa) Leland, 1824–93, U.S. railroad developer, politician, and philanthropist: governor of California 1861–63; senator 1885–93.
- starfish — any echinoderm of the class Asteroidea, having the body radially arranged, usually in the form of a star, with five or more rays or arms radiating from a central disk; asteroid.
- startful — tending to make sudden small involuntary movements of the body from fright or nerves, etc
- ste.-foy — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Quebec.
- stedfast — fixed in direction; steadily directed: a steadfast gaze.
- stefanie — a female given name.
- steffens — (Joseph) Lincoln, 1866–1936, U.S. author, journalist, and editor.
- stellify — to change or be changed into a star
- step-off — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
- stepford — blandly conformist and submissive
- stickful — as much set type as a composing stick will hold, usually about two column inches.
- stiffens — to make stiff.
- stifling — suffocating; oppressively close: the stifling atmosphere of the cavern.
- stir-fry — to cook (food) quickly by cutting into small pieces and stirring constantly in a lightly oiled wok or frying pan over high heat: a common method of Chinese cookery.
- stonefly — any of numerous dull-colored primitive aquatic insects of the order Plecoptera, having a distinctive flattened body shape: a major food source for game fish, especially bass and trout, which makes them popular as models for fishing flies.
- stop off — the act of stopping.
- stop-off — stopover.
- stormful — having many storms; stormy
- strafing — an act or instance of strafing
- stratify — to form or place in strata or layers.
- stud fee — the charge for the service of a male animal, as a horse, in breeding.
- studfish — either of two killifishes marked with orange spots, Fundulus catenatus (northern studfish) of the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers and Ozark Mountains region, or F. stellifer (southern studfish) of the Alabama River.
- stuffing — the material of which anything is made: a hard, crystalline stuff.
- stultify — to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous.
- subshaft — a secondary shaft in a mine