9-letter words containing s, f, e
- offenders — Plural form of offender.
- offension — (obsolete) assault; attack.
- offensive — causing resentful displeasure; highly irritating, angering, or annoying: offensive television commercials.
- offerings — Plural form of offering.
- offsaddle — (transitive, chiefly, South Africa) To unsaddle; remove the saddle from.
- offscreen — occurring, existing, or done away from the motion-picture or television screen: an offscreen voice.
- offseason — a time of year other than the regular or busiest one for a specific activity: Fares are lower in the off-season.
- offshored — Simple past tense and past participle of offshore.
- offshores — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of offshore.
- offsiders — Plural form of offsider.
- oftenness — (rare) The quality of happening often; frequency.
- oilfields — Plural form of oilfield.
- ossifrage — the lammergeier.
- outfields — Plural form of outfield.
- overfalls — Oceanography. water made rough by a strong current moving over a shoal, by an opposing current, or by winds blowing against the current.
- overflush — too flush
- overfocus — to focus too much
- overfussy — too fussy
- overstaff — to provide an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- overstuff — to force too much into: If you overstuff your suitcase, the fastenings may not hold.
- oviferous — bearing eggs.
- pantofles — a slipper.
- past life — previous incarnation
- pearlfish — any of several small fishes of the family Carapidae, living within pearl oysters, sea cucumbers, starfishes, etc.
- pecksniff — a person of Pecksniffian attitudes or behavior: a virtuousness that only a pecksniff could aspire to.
- perforans — (of nerves, muscles, or blood vessels) perforating or penetrating other anatomical structures
- perfusate — a fluid pumped or flowing through an organ or tissue.
- perfusion — the act of perfusing.
- perfusive — to overspread with moisture, color, etc.; suffuse.
- personify — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- 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.
- play safe — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- post-free — British. postpaid.
- praiseful — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- press fit — a type of fit for mating parts, usually tighter than a sliding fit, used when the parts do not have to move relative to each other
- profaners — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- professed — avowed; acknowledged.
- professor — a teacher of the highest academic rank in a college or university, who has been awarded the title Professor in a particular branch of learning; a full professor: a professor of Spanish literature.
- profiters — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
- profusely — spending or giving freely and in large amount, often to excess; extravagant (often followed by in): profuse praise.
- profusive — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- proof set — a set of coins (proof coins), one of each denomination, minted annually from highly polished metal on special dies, issued for collectors rather than for circulation
- proofless — lacking proof
- qualifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of qualify.
- queenfish — a silvery and bluish drum, Seriphus politus, inhabiting shallow waters along the coast of California.
- raffinose — a colorless, crystalline trisaccharide, C 1 8 H 3 2 O 1 6 ⋅5H 2 O, with little or no sweetness, occurring in the sugar beet, cottonseed, etc., and breaking down to fructose, glucose, and galactose on hydrolysis.
- rafflesia — any stemless, leafless, parasitic plant of the genus Rafflesia, of the Malay Peninsula and Republic of Indonesia, characterized by apetalous flowers, measuring 3 in.–3 feet (8 cm–90 cm) in diameter, that exude a putrid odor: now greatly reduced in number.
- ratifiers — to confirm by expressing consent, approval, or formal sanction: to ratify a constitutional amendment.
- reaffirms — to state or assert positively; maintain as true: to affirm one's loyalty to one's country; He affirmed that all was well.