9-letter words containing r, s, f
- solferino — a village in SE Lombardy, in N Italy: battle 1859. 1811.
- solid for — unanimously in favour of
- songcraft — the art of songwriting
- soporific — causing or tending to cause sleep.
- sorrowful — full of or feeling sorrow; grieved; sad.
- soufriere — Also, La Soufrière. a volcano in the West Indies, on St. Vincent island. 4048 feet (1234 meters).
- sourceful — any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin: Which foods are sources of calcium?
- soy flour — finely ground soybeans, most commonly used as an additive to other flours, processed meats, cereals, etc.
- span roof — a roof having two slopes of equal breadth and pitch meeting at a common ridge.
- spark off — cause, provoke
- speak for — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
- spearfish — fish: type of marlin
- specifier — to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail: He did not specify the amount needed.
- 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.
- spiritful — full of spirit or spiritual
- spoil for — If you are spoiling for a fight, you are very eager for it to happen.
- staffroom — room for teachers at school
- stairfoot — the area at the foot of a flight of stairs
- stairlift — A stairlift is a device that is fitted to a staircase in a house in order to allow an elderly or sick person to go upstairs.
- stand for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- stardrift — the very small continuous change in the direction of movement which is shared by the stars within a particular cluster
- start off — begin sth
- statfarad — the electrostatic unit of capacitance, equivalent to 1.1126 × 10 −12 farad and equal to the capacitance of a condenser in which one statcoulomb is transferred from one conductor of the condenser to the other per volt of potential difference between the conductors.
- sternfast — a rope for securing a boat at stern to another boat, dock, or buoy
- stiff arm — to push away (an opponent) with one's arm out straight
- stiff-arm — straight-arm.
- stiffener — a person or thing that stiffens.
- stiffware — a type of computer software that is difficult to modify
- strafford — 1st Earl of (Thomas Wentworth) 1593–1641, English statesman: chief adviser of Charles I of England.
- stratford — a town in SW Connecticut, near Bridgeport: Shakespeare theater.
- streetful — the amount of people or things a street can hold
- stressful — full of stress or tension: the stressful days before a war.
- stretford — an industrial town in NW England, in Trafford unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 42 103 (2001)
- strifeful — vigorous or bitter conflict, discord, or antagonism: to be at strife.
- strip off — remove clothes
- stud farm — place where horses are bred
- styliform — having the shape of an ancient style; stylar.
- styrofoam — Styrofoam is a very light, plastic substance, used especially to make containers.
- sub-frame — a border or case for enclosing a picture, mirror, etc.
- subwoofer — a loudspeaker component designed to reproduce only extremely low bass frequencies, generally below 125 Hz.
- sudorific — causing sweat; diaphoretic.
- suffering — the state of a person or thing that suffers.
- 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.
- sugarloaf — a large, usually conical loaf or mass of hard refined sugar: the common form of household sugar until the mid-19th century.
- sulfurate — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur, the fumes of burning sulfur, etc.
- sulfurize — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur.
- sulfurous — of, relating to, or containing sulfur, especially in the tetravalent state.
- 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.