9-letter words containing i, l, f
- roll film — a strip of film with space for several exposures, packaged on a spool in roll form so as to permit daylight loading and unloading and ease of handling.
- sablefish — a large, blackish food fish, Anoplopoma fimbria, inhabiting waters of the North Pacific.
- safelight — a darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.
- scaldfish — a small European flatfish, Arnoglossus laterna, covered with large fragile scales: family Bothidae
- schofield — John McAllister [muh-kal-i-ster] /məˈkæl ɪ stər/ (Show IPA), 1831–1906, U.S. general.
- scruffily — in an unkempt or shabby fashion
- scuffling — to struggle or fight in a rough, confused manner.
- self-bias — voltage developed on an electrode in a vacuum tube circuit as a result of current flowing through a resistor in a lead to the cathode or to a grid.
- self-paid — a simple past tense and past participle of pay1 .
- 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-will — stubborn or obstinate willfulness, as in pursuing one's own wishes, aims, etc.
- selfishly — devoted to or caring only for oneself; concerned primarily with one's own interests, benefits, welfare, etc., regardless of others.
- selfridge — Harry Gordon, 1857?–1947, British retail merchant, born in the U.S.
- semifinal — of or relating to the round preceding the final one in a tournament from which losers are eliminated.
- semifluid — imperfectly fluid; having both fluid and solid characteristics; semiliquid.
- serrefile — an officer placed in the rearmost file of soldiers in a troop
- sheaflike — resembling a sheaf
- sheffield — a city in South Yorkshire, in N England.
- shelf ice — ice forming part of or broken from an ice shelf.
- shelflist — a record of the books and other materials in a library arranged in the order in which the materials are stored on shelves.
- shellfire — the firing of explosive shells or projectiles.
- shellfish — an aquatic animal having a shell, as the oyster and other mollusks and the lobster and other crustaceans.
- shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.
- shiftless — lacking in resourcefulness; inefficient; lazy.
- shuffling — moving in a dragging or clumsy manner.
- siffleuse — a female professional whistler
- siftingly — by a sifting process
- sinfjotli — the son of Signy by her brother Sigmund.
- skiffless — without a skiff
- skinflick — film containing much nudity and sex
- skinflint — a mean, niggardly person; miser.
- sling off — to laugh or jeer (at)
- slip flow — gas flow occurring at hypersonic speeds in which molecular shearing occurs
- slip form — a form into which concrete is poured that can be slowly moved and reused in construction, as of a pavement or a building.
- slow fire — a rate of firing small arms that allows time to aim before each shot.
- snailfish — any of several elongate, smooth-skinned fishes of the family Liparididae, inhabiting cold seas, having the ventral fins modified to form a sucking disk.
- sniffable — capable of being sniffed
- snipe fly — any of various predatory dipterous flies of the family Leptidae (or Rhagionidae), such as Rhagio scolopacea of Europe, having an elongated body and long legs
- snowfield — a large and relatively permanent expanse of snow.
- soft hail — snow pellets.
- soft line — a position or policy, as in politics, that is moderate and flexible.
- soft-bill — any of numerous birds, as thrushes or tanagers, having relatively weak bills suited for eating insects, soft-bodied animals, and fruit rather than hard seeds.
- soft-boil — to boil (an egg) just long enough for the yolk and white to partially solidify, usually three or four minutes.
- solemnify — to make solemn: to solemnify an occasion with hymns and prayers.
- solfeggio — a vocal exercise in which the sol-fa syllables are used.
- solferino — a village in SE Lombardy, in N Italy: battle 1859. 1811.
- solid for — unanimously in favour of
- solifugid — sun spider.
- spiel off — to recite by or as if by rote
- spiritful — full of spirit or spiritual