9-letter words containing l, a, f, e, s
- sand flea — beach flea.
- scatheful — causing harm or injury
- sea-floor — the solid surface underlying a sea or an ocean.
- seed leaf — a cotyledon.
- 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-care — care of the self without medical or other professional consultation.
- self-harm — injury inflicted deliberately on yourself
- self-hate — to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest: to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry.
- self-made — having succeeded in life unaided: He is a self-made man.
- self-mate — a move that will cause a player's king to be mated within a certain number of subsequent moves.
- self-paid — a simple past tense and past participle of pay1 .
- self-same — You use self-same when you want to emphasize that the person or thing mentioned is exactly the same as the one mentioned previously.
- self-talk — motivational thoughts, affirmations
- self-want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
- selfwards — in the direction of oneself
- semifinal — of or relating to the round preceding the final one in a tournament from which losers are eliminated.
- shaftless — lacking a shaft
- sheaflike — resembling a sheaf
- shelfware — Computers. software or hardware that remains unsold, unused, or underused: shelfware as part of a bundled license deal.
- shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.
- slashfest — a film, animated film, or computer game in which victims are killed bloodily using blades
- snake fly — any neuropterous insect of the family Raphidiidae, of western North America, having an elongated prothorax resembling a neck.
- sniffable — capable of being sniffed
- snowflake — one of the small, feathery masses or flakes in which snow falls.
- sootflake — a smudge or speck of soot
- stall-fed — (of animals) confined to and fed in a stall, especially for fattening.
- sulfatase — any of a class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of sulfuric acid esters.
- sulfatize — to convert into a sulfate, as by the roasting of ores.
- sulfonate — an ester or salt derived from a sulfonic acid.
- sulfurate — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur, the fumes of burning sulfur, etc.
- sweetleaf — a shrub or small tree, Symplocos tinctoria, of the eastern coast of the U.S., having lance-shaped leaves, yellowish, fragrant flowers, and orange or brown fruit.
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
- ultrasafe — extremely safe
- wasterful — Lb obsolete wasteful.
- welfarism — the set of attitudes and policies characterizing or tending toward the establishment of a welfare state.
- welfarist — the set of attitudes and policies characterizing or tending toward the establishment of a welfare state.
- westfalen — German name of Westphalia.
- wolfsbane — any of several plants in the aconite genus Aconitum, including A. lycoctonum, bearing stalks of hood-shaped purplish-blue flowers, the monkshood A. napellus, which yields a poisonous alkaloid used medicinally, and numerous garden varieties in various colors.