9-letter words containing o, f, s, a, l
- leaf spot — a limited, often circular, discolored, diseased area on a leaf, usually including a central region of necrosis.
- leapfrogs — Plural form of leapfrog.
- lifeboats — Plural form of lifeboat.
- loaferish — (of a person) idle, lazy
- loanshift — change or extension of the meaning of a word through the influence of a foreign word, as in the application in English of the meaning “profession” to the word calling through the influence of Latin vocātio.
- looseleaf — Consisting of loose leaves (pages), often collected in a binder, rather than being bound like a book or stapled.
- lose face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- manifolds — Plural form of manifold.
- megaflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one million floating-point operations per second.
- nonfiscal — not involving government funds
- nose leaf — a leaflike outgrowth of skin on the nose of various bats, thought to be sensitive to vibrations of the air.
- off-sales — sales of alcoholic drink for consumption off the premises by a pub or an off-licence attached to a pub
- officials — Plural form of official.
- offsaddle — (transitive, chiefly, South Africa) To unsaddle; remove the saddle from.
- olfactics — The study of smells and how they are perceived.
- outflanks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outflank.
- overfalls — Oceanography. water made rough by a strong current moving over a shoal, by an opposing current, or by winds blowing against the current.
- pantofles — a slipper.
- petaflops — (unit) 10^15 flops or 1000 teraflops. As with flops, the term ends in S in both the singular and plural as the S stands for seconds. The first computer to perform one petaflops was recorded in June 2008. By June 2012 there were 20.
- platforms — a horizontal surface or structure with a horizontal surface raised above the level of the surrounding area.
- postfault — taking place after a fault
- postfixal — of or relating to a postfix, having postfixes
- safflower — a thistlelike composite plant, Carthamus tinctorius, native to the Old World, having finely toothed leaves and large, orange-red flower heads.
- sea-floor — the solid surface underlying a sea or an ocean.
- sfd-algol — System Function Description-ALGOL. Extension of ALGOL for synchronous systems. Sammet 1969, p.625.
- shortfall — the quantity or extent by which something falls short; deficiency; shortage.
- show flat — a newly-build flat that is decorated and furnished for prospective buyers to view
- slack off — not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
- snowflake — one of the small, feathery masses or flakes in which snow falls.
- soft clam — soft-shell clam.
- soft coal — bituminous coal.
- soft hail — snow pellets.
- 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-land — to cause to land slowly and without jarring impact: to soft-land the module on the planet's surface.
- solfatara — a fumarole that gives off only sulfurous gases.
- sootflake — a smudge or speck of soot
- splayfoot — a broad, flat foot, especially one turned outward.
- sugarloaf — a large, usually conical loaf or mass of hard refined sugar: the common form of household sugar until the mid-19th century.
- sulfation — Chemistry. a salt or ester of sulfuric acid.
- sulfonate — an ester or salt derived from a sulfonic acid.
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
- trifocals — glasses with trifocal lenses
- ultrasoft — extremely soft
- 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.