9-letter words containing s, e, a, f
- self-made — having succeeded in life unaided: He is a self-made man.
- self-mate — a move that will cause a player's king to be mated within a certain number of subsequent moves.
- self-paid — a simple past tense and past participle of pay1 .
- self-same — You use self-same when you want to emphasize that the person or thing mentioned is exactly the same as the one mentioned previously.
- 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.
- selfwards — in the direction of oneself
- semidwarf — a plant which is smaller than usual but bigger than a dwarf
- semifinal — of or relating to the round preceding the final one in a tournament from which losers are eliminated.
- shades of — something reminding one of something (or someone) past
- shaftless — lacking a shaft
- shake off — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
- shamefast — shamefaced.
- sheaflike — resembling a sheaf
- shear off — remove by cutting, slice away
- sheatfish — a large, freshwater catfish, Silurus glanis, inhabiting rivers in central and eastern Europe, sometimes reaching a weight of 400 pounds (181.4 kg).
- shelfware — Computers. software or hardware that remains unsold, unused, or underused: shelfware as part of a bundled license deal.
- sherifian — pertaining to a descendant of Muhammad through his daughter Fatima
- shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.
- shitfaced — very drunk.
- shroffage — the commission charged by a money dealer
- slashfest — a film, animated film, or computer game in which victims are killed bloodily using blades
- snake fly — any neuropterous insect of the family Raphidiidae, of western North America, having an elongated prothorax resembling a neck.
- snakefish — lizardfish.
- sniffable — capable of being sniffed
- snowflake — one of the small, feathery masses or flakes in which snow falls.
- sootflake — a smudge or speck of soot
- spadefish — a deep-bodied marine fish of the genus Chaetodipterus, especially C. faber, of Atlantic coastal waters of North America.
- spadefoot — spadefoot toad.
- speak for — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
- spearfish — fish: type of marlin
- stall-fed — (of animals) confined to and fed in a stall, especially for fattening.
- stave off — one of the thin, narrow, shaped pieces of wood that form the sides of a cask, tub, or similar vessel.
- steadfast — fixed in direction; steadily directed: a steadfast gaze.
- sternfast — a rope for securing a boat at stern to another boat, dock, or buoy
- stiffware — a type of computer software that is difficult to modify
- stoneface — living stones.
- sub-frame — a border or case for enclosing a picture, mirror, etc.
- suck face — to draw into the mouth by producing a partial vacuum by action of the lips and tongue: to suck lemonade through a straw.
- suffocate — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- sulfatase — any of a class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of sulfuric acid esters.
- sulfatize — to convert into a sulfate, as by the roasting of ores.
- sulfonate — an ester or salt derived from a sulfonic acid.
- sulfurate — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur, the fumes of burning sulfur, etc.
- superfarm — a very large farm, sometimes incorporating or coordinating a number of smaller farms
- superfast — very or extremely fast
- supersafe — exceptionally safe
- superwaif — a very young and very thin supermodel
- swear for — to give assurance for; guarantee
- swear off — to make a solemn declaration or affirmation by some sacred being or object, as a deity or the Bible.