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9-letter words containing r, s, f

  • self-care — care of the self without medical or other professional consultation.
  • self-harm — injury inflicted deliberately on yourself
  • self-rule — a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.: the rules of chess.
  • selfridge — Harry Gordon, 1857?–1947, British retail merchant, born in the U.S.
  • selfwards — in the direction of oneself
  • semidwarf — a plant which is smaller than usual but bigger than a dwarf
  • septiform — sevenfold
  • serrefile — an officer placed in the rearmost file of soldiers in a troop
  • serriform — resembling the notched edge of a saw; serrated.
  • set forth — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
  • sforzando — to be played with strong initial attack
  • sgraffito — a technique of ornamentation in which a surface layer of paint, plaster, slip, etc., is incised to reveal a ground of contrasting color.
  • shear off — remove by cutting, slice away
  • shed roof — a roof having a single slope.
  • shelfroom — the space on a shelf
  • shelfware — Computers. software or hardware that remains unsold, unused, or underused: shelfware as part of a bundled license deal.
  • shellfire — the firing of explosive shells or projectiles.
  • sherifian — pertaining to a descendant of Muhammad through his daughter Fatima
  • shiftwork — a system of employment where an individual's normal hours of work are, in part, outside the period of normal day working and may follow a different pattern in consecutive periods of weeks
  • shoot for — to hit, wound, damage, kill, or destroy with a missile discharged from a weapon.
  • shopcraft — any of various skilled trades involving maintenance or repair work, as metalworking or boilermaking, especially in the railroad industry.
  • shopfront — the area of a shop that faces street
  • shore fly — any of numerous small black flies of the family Ephydridae, found in damp or marshy locations.
  • short for — having little length; not long.
  • shortfall — the quantity or extent by which something falls short; deficiency; shortage.
  • shotfirer — a person employed to detonate an explosive
  • shotproof — able to withstand shot
  • showerful — abundant
  • shroffage — the commission charged by a money dealer
  • shrug off — to raise and contract (the shoulders), expressing indifference, disdain, etc.
  • si prefix — (unit, standard)   The standard metric prefixes used in the Système International d'Unités (SI) conventions for scientific measurement. Here are the SI magnifying prefixes, along with the corresponding binary interpretations in common use: prefix abr decimal binary yocto- 1000^-8 zepto- 1000^-7 atto- 1000^-6 femto- f 1000^-5 pico- p 1000^-4 nano- n 1000^-3 micro- * 1000^-2 * Abbreviation: Greek mu milli- m 1000^-1 kilo- k 1000^1 1024^1 = 2^10 = 1,024 mega- M 1000^2 1024^2 = 2^20 = 1,048,576 giga- G 1000^3 1024^3 = 2^30 = 1,073,741,824 tera- T 1000^4 1024^4 = 2^40 = 1,099,511,627,776 peta- 1000^5 1024^5 = 2^50 = 1,125,899,906,842,624 exa- 1000^6 1024^6 = 2^60 = 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 zetta- 1000^7 1024^7 = 2^70 = 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 yotta- 1000^8 1024^8 = 2^80 = 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 "Femto" and "atto" derive not from Greek but from Danish. The abbreviated forms of these prefixes are common in electronics and physics. When used with bytes of storage, these prefixes usually denote multiplication by powers of 1024 = 2^10 (K, M, G and T are common in computing). Thus "MB" stands for megabytes (2^20 bytes). This common practice goes against the edicts of the BIPM who deprecate the use of these prefixes for powers of two. The formal SI prefix for 1000 is lower case "k"; some, including this dictionary, use this strictly, reserving upper case "K" for multiplication by 1024 (KB is thus "kilobytes"). Also, in data transfer rates the prefixes stand for powers of ten so, for example, 28.8 kb/s means 28,800 bits per second. The unit is often dropped so one may talk of "a 40K salary" (40000 dollars) or "2 meg of disk space" (2*2^20 bytes). The accepted pronunciation of the initial G of "giga-" is hard, /gi'ga/. Confusing 1000 and 1024 (or other powers of 2 and 10 close in magnitude) - for example, describing a memory in units of 500K or 524K instead of 512K - is a sure sign of the marketroid. For example, 3.5" microfloppies are often described as storing "1.44 MB". In fact, this is completely specious. The correct size is 1440 KB = 1440 * 1024 = 1474560 bytes. Alas, this point is probably lost on the world forever. In 1993, hacker Morgan Burke proposed, to general approval on Usenet, the following additional prefixes: groucho (10^-30), harpo (10^-27), harpi (10^27), grouchi (10^30). This would leave the prefixes zeppo-, gummo-, and chico- available for future expansion. Sadly, there is little immediate prospect that Mr. Burke's eminently sensible proposal will be ratified.
  • siegfried — (in the Nibelungenlied) the son of Sigmund and Sieglinde and the husband of Kriemhild. He kills the dragon Fafnir, acquires the treasure of the Nibelungs, wins Brünnhilde for Gunther, and is finally killed by Hagen at the behest of Brünnhilde, whom he had once promised to marry: corresponds to the Sigurd of the Volsunga Saga. Compare Brünnhilde.
  • signifier — a person or thing that signifies.
  • sigrdrifa — a Valkyrie who, for disobedience to Odin, sleeps within a circle of fire until awakened by Sigurd.
  • skidproof — preventing or resistant to skidding, as certain road surfaces or vehicle tires.
  • slip form — a form into which concrete is poured that can be slowly moved and reused in construction, as of a pavement or a building.
  • slow fire — a rate of firing small arms that allows time to aim before each shot.
  • small fry — child
  • smart off — to be impertinent or flippant
  • snowdrift — a mound or bank of snow driven together by the wind.
  • so far as — as far as, in as much as
  • soffritto — Also called battuto. Italian Cookery. a base for stews and soups, consisting of hot oil, butter, or fat in which a chopped onion or crushed garlic clove has been browned, often with the addition of chopped parsley, celery, and carrot.
  • soft drug — a drug, usually illicit, that does not produce significant psychological or physical dependence.
  • soft iron — iron that has a low carbon content and is easily magnetized and demagnetized with a small hysteresis loss
  • soft porn — soft-core pornography.
  • soft rock — a comparatively unaggressive, melodic style of rock-'n'-roll in which the arrangement and lyrics are emphasized more than the beat.
  • soft-core — of, relating to, or containing sexually arousing depictions that are not fully explicit: soft-core pornography. Compare hard-core (def 2).
  • softboard — a soft, porous particle board.
  • softcover — paperback edition of a book
  • solfatara — a fumarole that gives off only sulfurous gases.
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