9-letter words containing n, s, f
- span roof — a roof having two slopes of equal breadth and pitch meeting at a common ridge.
- spindrift — spray swept by a violent wind along the surface of the sea.
- spiniform — like a thorn or spine
- spinproof — (of an airplane) designed so as to be highly resistant to a tailspin.
- spleenful — full of or displaying spleen.
- spongefly — any of several insects of the family Sisyridae, the aquatic larvae of which feed on freshwater sponges.
- spoon-fed — fed with a spoon.
- spot fine — penalty paid immediately
- stand for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- stand off — a standing off or apart; aloofness.
- stand-off — a standing off or apart; aloofness.
- standfast — a rigid or unyielding position.
- stenchful — malodorous; foul-smelling
- sternfast — a rope for securing a boat at stern to another boat, dock, or buoy
- stiffened — to make stiff.
- stiffener — a person or thing that stiffens.
- stiffness — rigid or firm; difficult or impossible to bend or flex: a stiff collar.
- stoneface — living stones.
- stonefish — a tropical scorpion fish, Synanceja verrucosa, having dorsal-fin spines from which a deadly poison is discharged.
- subinfeud — a grant by a feudal tenant of land to a further tenant
- suffering — the state of a person or thing that suffers.
- sufficing — to be enough or adequate, as for needs, purposes, etc.
- suffragan — assisting or auxiliary to, as applied to any bishop in relation to the archbishop or metropolitan who is his superior, or as applied to an assistant or subsidiary bishop who performs episcopal functions in a diocese but has no ordinary jurisdiction, as, in the Church of England, a bishop consecrated to assist the ordinary bishop of a see in part of his diocese.
- suffusion — to overspread with or as with a liquid, color, etc.
- sulfation — Chemistry. a salt or ester of sulfuric acid.
- sulfonate — an ester or salt derived from a sulfonic acid.
- sulfonium — the positively charged group H 3 S + , its salts, or their substitute products.
- sunflower — any of various composite plants of the genus Helianthus, as H. annuus, having showy, yellow-rayed flower heads often 12 inches (30 cm) wide, and edible seeds that yield an oil with a wide variety of uses: the state flower of Kansas.
- superfine — extra fine, as in grain or texture; unusually fine: superfine sugar.
- superfund — a large fund set up to finance an expensive program or project.
- surf zone — the area offshore where waves break, between the outermost breaker and the limit of wave uprush; the zone within which waves approaching the coastline start breaking, usually in water depths of 16 to 32 feet (5 to 10 meters).
- surf-zone — the area offshore where waves break, between the outermost breaker and the limit of wave uprush; the zone within which waves approaching the coastline start breaking, usually in water depths of 16 to 32 feet (5 to 10 meters).
- surfacing — the outer face, outside, or exterior boundary of a thing; outermost or uppermost layer or area.
- swiftness — moving or capable of moving with great speed or velocity; fleet; rapid: a swift ship.
- swine flu — a highly contagious form of influenza caused by infection with a filterable virus first isolated from swine.
- tanstaafl — /tan'stah-fl/ (From Robert Heinlein's classic "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress") "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch". Often invoked when someone is balking at the prospect of using an unpleasantly heavyweight technique, or at the poor quality of some piece of free software, or at the signal-to-noise ratio of unmoderated Usenet newsgroups. "What? Don't tell me I have to implement a database back end to get my address book program to work!" "Well, TANSTAAFL you know." This phrase owes some of its popularity to the high concentration of science-fiction fans and political libertarians in hackerdom.
- townsfolk — citizens, local people
- trans fat — trans-fatty acid.
- trans-fat — trans-fatty acid.
- transfect — to cause transfection in (a cell).
- transform — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- transfuse — to transfer or pass from one to another; transmit; instill: to transfuse a love of literature to one's students.
- trunkfish — any plectognath fish of the family Ostraciontidae, of warm seas, having a boxlike body encased in bony, polygonal plates.
- unbashful — uncomfortably diffident and easily embarrassed; shy; timid.
- unconfuse — to remove confusion from
- underfish — to catch fewer fish than the maximum amount permitted
- underself — the part of a personality that remains hidden
- unfairest — most unfair
- unfleshly — not fleshly; not carnal or corporeal; spiritual.
- unfocused — not brought into focus; lacking proper focus: an unfocused camera.