9-letter words containing n, s, f
- seafaring — traveling by sea.
- seed fern — any of various plants of the order Lyginopteridales (or Cycadofilicales), known only as fossils, having fernlike leaves and reproducing by means of seeds.
- seif dune — (in deserts, esp the Sahara) a long ridge of blown sand, often several miles long
- self-sown — sown by itself, or without human or animal agency, as of a plant grown from seeds dropped from another plant.
- self-want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
- semifinal — of or relating to the round preceding the final one in a tournament from which losers are eliminated.
- sevenfold — comprising seven parts or members.
- sex fiend — a person who commits sexual offences
- sforzando — to be played with strong initial attack
- sherifian — pertaining to a descendant of Muhammad through his daughter Fatima
- shopfront — the area of a shop that faces street
- shuffling — moving in a dragging or clumsy manner.
- sidi ifni — a seaport in W Morocco: former capital of Ifni.
- siftingly — by a sifting process
- significs — semantics (def 2).
- signified — the thing or concept denoted by a sign.
- signifier — a person or thing that signifies.
- signifies — (in linguistics) the signified.
- sinfjotli — the son of Signy by her brother Sigmund.
- sinn fein — a political organization in Ireland, founded about 1905, advocating the complete political separation from Great Britain of a unified Ireland.
- skin food — a cosmetic cream for keeping the skin in good condition
- skinflick — film containing much nudity and sex
- skinflint — a mean, niggardly person; miser.
- sling off — to laugh or jeer (at)
- 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.
- snake fly — any neuropterous insect of the family Raphidiidae, of western North America, having an elongated prothorax resembling a neck.
- snakefish — lizardfish.
- sniff out — detect
- 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
- snipefish — any of several fishes of the family Macrorhamphosidae, of tropical and temperate seas, having a long, tubular snout and a compressed body.
- snowdrift — a mound or bank of snow driven together by the wind.
- snowfield — a large and relatively permanent expanse of snow.
- snowflake — one of the small, feathery masses or flakes in which snow falls.
- snuff out — the charred or partly consumed portion of a candlewick.
- snuff-box — a box for holding snuff, especially one small enough to be carried in the pocket.
- soft iron — iron that has a low carbon content and is easily magnetized and demagnetized with a small hysteresis loss
- soft lens — a nonrigid contact lens made of porous plastic, having a high water content that is replenished from eye surface moisture.
- soft line — a position or policy, as in politics, that is moderate and flexible.
- soft loan — A soft loan is a loan with a very low interest rate. Soft loans are usually made to developing countries or to businesses in developing countries.
- soft porn — soft-core pornography.
- 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).
- soft-land — to cause to land slowly and without jarring impact: to soft-land the module on the planet's surface.
- softbench — An IPSE from Hewlett-Packard.
- softbound — book: paperback
- soften up — make softer
- solemnify — to make solemn: to solemnify an occasion with hymns and prayers.
- solferino — a village in SE Lombardy, in N Italy: battle 1859. 1811.
- songcraft — the art of songwriting
- sound off — the sensation produced by stimulation of the organs of hearing by vibrations transmitted through the air or other medium.