9-letter words containing f, t
- rift zone — a system of related, narrow structural depressions between parallel faults.
- right off — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- rijstafel — an assortment of Indonesian side dishes accompanied by rice
- roadcraft — the skills and knowledge used to drive road vehicles
- rockshaft — an oscillating shaft.
- rood loft — a gallery above a rood screen, approached from stairs, used for chantings and readings.
- roquefort — a blue-veined cheese with a strong flavour, made from ewes' milk: matured in caves
- rotiferan — relating to the phylum of freshwater invertebrates Rotifera
- rufescent — somewhat reddish; tinged with red; rufous.
- rufflette — any of a variety of window blinds
- run after — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- runecraft — understanding of and skill working with runes
- rustproof — not subject to rusting.
- safe seat — In politics, a safe seat is an area in which the candidate from one particular party nearly always wins by a large number of votes.
- safelight — a darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.
- saintfoin — sainfoin.
- salt beef — beef that has been preserved in salt
- salt flat — an extensive level tract coated with salt deposits left by evaporation of rising ground water or a temporary body of surface water.
- salt-free — containing or involving no salt
- satisfice — to choose or adopt the first satisfactory option that one comes across: the tendency of decision-makers to satisfice rather than look for the optimal solution.
- satisfied — content: a satisfied look.
- satisfies — to fulfill the desires, expectations, needs, or demands of (a person, the mind, etc.); give full contentment to: The hearty meal satisfied him.
- scatheful — causing harm or injury
- scot-free — completely free from harm, restraint, punishment, or obligation: The driver of the car escaped from the accident scot-free. The judge let the defendant off scot-free.
- scutiform — being in the shape of a shield; shield-shaped.
- sea fight — a fight between ships at sea.
- sea front — an area, including buildings, along the edge of the sea; waterfront.
- see after — to perceive with the eyes; look at.
- self-hate — to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest: to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry.
- self-mate — a move that will cause a player's king to be mated within a certain number of subsequent moves.
- self-pity — pity for oneself, especially a self-indulgent attitude concerning one's own difficulties, hardships, etc.: We must resist yielding to self-pity and carry on as best we can.
- self-talk — motivational thoughts, affirmations
- self-test — a test that can be administered to oneself.
- self-want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
- semistiff — somewhat or fairly stiff; partially stiff
- septemfid — divided into seven
- septiform — sevenfold
- set forth — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- sgraffito — a technique of ornamentation in which a surface layer of paint, plaster, slip, etc., is incised to reveal a ground of contrasting color.
- shaftless — lacking a shaft
- shamefast — shamefaced.
- sheatfish — a large, freshwater catfish, Silurus glanis, inhabiting rivers in central and eastern Europe, sometimes reaching a weight of 400 pounds (181.4 kg).
- sheet-fed — (of a printing press) fed by and designed to print individual flat sheets of paper.
- shelflist — a record of the books and other materials in a library arranged in the order in which the materials are stored on shelves.
- shift bid — a bid in a suit different from the suit just bid by one's partner.
- shift key — a typewriter key that determines whether characters are printed in upper or lower case and controls the printing of numbers and symbols.
- shift out — (character) (SO, Control-N, ASCII 14) The character which was used to "shift out" of an alternate character set on some ancient teletypes, reversing the effect of the Shift In (SI, ASCII 15) character.
- shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.
- shiftless — lacking in resourcefulness; inefficient; lazy.
- shiftwork — a system of employment where an individual's normal hours of work are, in part, outside the period of normal day working and may follow a different pattern in consecutive periods of weeks