9-letter words containing n, s, f
- newsfroup — (messaging, humour) A silly synonym for Usenet newsgroup, originally a typo but now in regular use on Usenet's news:talk.bizarre and other lunatic-fringe groups. Compare hing, grilf, and filk.
- niftiness — Quality of being nifty.
- nitrifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nitrify.
- no-frills — providing or including basic services and necessities without any additional features or amenities: Food and beverages are not covered by the low no-frills air fare.
- nonfiscal — not involving government funds
- nonfossil — not related to or derived from fossil fuel
- nose leaf — a leaflike outgrowth of skin on the nose of various bats, thought to be sensitive to vibrations of the air.
- nosferatu — Alternative form of Nosferatu.
- nuff said — used to indicate that the preceding statement is sufficient
- nullifies — to render or declare legally void or inoperative: to nullify a contract.
- offenders — Plural form of offender.
- offension — (obsolete) assault; attack.
- offensive — causing resentful displeasure; highly irritating, angering, or annoying: offensive television commercials.
- offerings — Plural form of offering.
- offprints — Plural form of offprint.
- offscreen — occurring, existing, or done away from the motion-picture or television screen: an offscreen voice.
- offseason — a time of year other than the regular or busiest one for a specific activity: Fares are lower in the off-season.
- offspring — children or young of a particular parent or progenitor.
- oftenness — (rare) The quality of happening often; frequency.
- ossifying — Present participle of ossify.
- outflanks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outflank.
- pantofles — a slipper.
- pecksniff — a person of Pecksniffian attitudes or behavior: a virtuousness that only a pecksniff could aspire to.
- perforans — (of nerves, muscles, or blood vessels) perforating or penetrating other anatomical structures
- perfusion — the act of perfusing.
- personify — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- pinchfist — a miser
- profaners — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- profusion — abundance; abundant quantity.
- queenfish — a silvery and bluish drum, Seriphus politus, inhabiting shallow waters along the coast of California.
- 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.
- rankshift — (in systemic linguistics) to use a unit as a constituent of another unit of the same or lower rank on the rank scale, as in using the phrase next door within the phrase the boy next door or the clause that you met yesterday within the phrase the girl that you met yesterday.
- refashion — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- refreshen — to freshen again
- refurnish — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- refusenik — a Soviet citizen, usually Jewish, who was denied permission to emigrate from the Soviet Union.
- renfierst — made fierce; enraged
- resentful — full of or marked by resentment.
- rosefinch — any of various finches with pink patches
- rufescent — somewhat reddish; tinged with red; rufous.
- safariing — a journey or expedition, for hunting, exploration, or investigation, especially in eastern Africa.
- saffroned — containing or coloured by saffron
- safranine — any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes, phenazine derivatives, used for dyeing wool, silk, etc.
- saintfoin — sainfoin.
- sand flea — beach flea.
- 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.
- scarfskin — the outermost layer of the skin; epidermis.
- scuffling — to struggle or fight in a rough, confused manner.
- sea front — an area, including buildings, along the edge of the sea; waterfront.