9-letter words containing s, a, f, e, t
- hamfisted — clumsy, inept, or heavy-handed: a ham-handed approach to dealing with people that hurts a lot of feelings.
- headfirst — with the head in front or bent forward; headforemost: He dived headfirst into the sea.
- hoofbeats — Plural form of hoofbeat.
- infestant — a parasite
- infuscate — darkened with a fuscous or brownish tinge.
- jazzfests — Plural form of jazzfest.
- latensify — to increase the developability of (the latent image on a film or plate) after exposure.
- leaf rust — a disease, especially of cereals and other grasses, characterized by rust-colored pustules of spores on the affected leaf blades and sheaths and caused by any of several rust fungi.
- leaf site — A machine that merely originates and reads Usenet news or mail, and does not relay any third-party traffic. Often uttered in a critical tone; when the ratio of leaf sites to backbone, rib, and other relay sites gets too high, the network tends to develop bottlenecks. Compare backbone site, rib site.
- leaf spot — a limited, often circular, discolored, diseased area on a leaf, usually including a central region of necrosis.
- leafstalk — petiole (def 1).
- leftwards — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
- lifeboats — Plural form of lifeboat.
- liftgates — Plural form of liftgate.
- makeshift — a temporary expedient or substitute: We used boxes as a makeshift while the kitchen chairs were being painted.
- manifesto — a public declaration of intentions, opinions, objectives, or motives, as one issued by a government, sovereign, or organization.
- manifests — Plural form of manifest.
- masterful — dominating; self-willed; imperious.
- meat safe — a container where meat is stored
- mews flat — a flat or apartment situated in a yard or street lined by buildings originally used as stables but now often converted into dwellings
- mineshaft — A vertical hole, sunk down through the strata to reach the mineral which was to be mined.
- nosferatu — Alternative form of Nosferatu.
- obfuscate — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- overstaff — to provide an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- pantofles — a slipper.
- past life — previous incarnation
- perfusate — a fluid pumped or flowing through an organ or tissue.
- 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.
- pikestaff — the shaft of an infantry pike.
- ratifiers — to confirm by expressing consent, approval, or formal sanction: to ratify a constitutional amendment.
- rijstafel — an assortment of Indonesian side dishes accompanied by rice
- safe seat — In politics, a safe seat is an area in which the candidate from one particular party nearly always wins by a large number of votes.
- safelight — a darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.
- salt beef — beef that has been preserved in salt
- salt-free — containing or involving no salt
- satisfice — to choose or adopt the first satisfactory option that one comes across: the tendency of decision-makers to satisfice rather than look for the optimal solution.
- satisfied — content: a satisfied look.
- satisfies — to fulfill the desires, expectations, needs, or demands of (a person, the mind, etc.); give full contentment to: The hearty meal satisfied him.
- scatheful — causing harm or injury
- sea fight — a fight between ships at sea.
- sea front — an area, including buildings, along the edge of the sea; waterfront.
- see after — to perceive with the eyes; look at.
- self-hate — to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest: to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry.
- self-mate — a move that will cause a player's king to be mated within a certain number of subsequent moves.
- self-talk — motivational thoughts, affirmations
- self-want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
- shaftless — lacking a shaft
- shamefast — shamefaced.
- sheatfish — a large, freshwater catfish, Silurus glanis, inhabiting rivers in central and eastern Europe, sometimes reaching a weight of 400 pounds (181.4 kg).
- shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.