9-letter words containing i, n, f, o, s
- raffinose — a colorless, crystalline trisaccharide, C 1 8 H 3 2 O 1 6 ⋅5H 2 O, with little or no sweetness, occurring in the sugar beet, cottonseed, etc., and breaking down to fructose, glucose, and galactose on hydrolysis.
- refashion — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- rosefinch — any of various finches with pink patches
- saintfoin — sainfoin.
- sanforize — to preshrink (cloth) permanently by a patented process before making garments
- sangfroid — coolness of mind; calmness; composure: They committed the robbery with complete sang-froid.
- sinfjotli — the son of Signy by her brother Sigmund.
- skin food — a cosmetic cream for keeping the skin in good condition
- sling off — to laugh or jeer (at)
- sniff out — detect
- snowdrift — a mound or bank of snow driven together by the wind.
- snowfield — a large and relatively permanent expanse of snow.
- soft iron — iron that has a low carbon content and is easily magnetized and demagnetized with a small hysteresis loss
- soft line — a position or policy, as in politics, that is moderate and flexible.
- soft sign — the Cyrillic letter (ь) as used in Russian to indicate that the preceding consonant is palatalized, or to represent (y) between a palatalized consonant and a vowel. See also jer (def 1).
- solemnify — to make solemn: to solemnify an occasion with hymns and prayers.
- solferino — a village in SE Lombardy, in N Italy: battle 1859. 1811.
- spiniform — like a thorn or spine
- spinproof — (of an airplane) designed so as to be highly resistant to a tailspin.
- spot fine — penalty paid immediately
- stonefish — a tropical scorpion fish, Synanceja verrucosa, having dorsal-fin spines from which a deadly poison is discharged.
- suffusion — to overspread with or as with a liquid, color, etc.
- sulfation — Chemistry. a salt or ester of sulfuric acid.
- sulfonium — the positively charged group H 3 S + , its salts, or their substitute products.
- unfoolish — resulting from or showing a lack of sense; ill-considered; unwise: a foolish action, a foolish speech.