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9-letter words containing s, f, e

  • sex fiend — a person who commits sexual offences
  • 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).
  • shed roof — a roof having a single slope.
  • sheepfold — an enclosure for sheep.
  • sheet-fed — (of a printing press) fed by and designed to print individual flat sheets of paper.
  • sheffield — a city in South Yorkshire, in N England.
  • shelf ice — ice forming part of or broken from an ice shelf.
  • shelflist — a record of the books and other materials in a library arranged in the order in which the materials are stored on shelves.
  • 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.
  • shellfish — an aquatic animal having a shell, as the oyster and other mollusks and the lobster and other crustaceans.
  • sherifian — pertaining to a descendant of Muhammad through his daughter Fatima
  • shift key — a typewriter key that determines whether characters are printed in upper or lower case and controls the printing of numbers and symbols.
  • shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.
  • shiftless — lacking in resourcefulness; inefficient; lazy.
  • shitfaced — very drunk.
  • shore fly — any of numerous small black flies of the family Ephydridae, found in damp or marshy locations.
  • shotfirer — a person employed to detonate an explosive
  • shove off — to move along by force from behind; push.
  • shovelful — the amount held by a shovel.
  • showerful — abundant
  • shroffage — the commission charged by a money dealer
  • 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.
  • side-foot — In football, if a player side-foots the ball, they kick it with the side of their foot.
  • 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.
  • siffleuse — a female professional whistler
  • signified — the thing or concept denoted by a sign.
  • signifier — a person or thing that signifies.
  • signifies — (in linguistics) the signified.
  • sinn fein — a political organization in Ireland, founded about 1905, advocating the complete political separation from Great Britain of a unified Ireland.
  • sissified — sissy.
  • skewwhiff — not straight; askew
  • skiffless — without a skiff
  • slashfest — a film, animated film, or computer game in which victims are killed bloodily using blades
  • sleep off — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
  • slow fire — a rate of firing small arms that allows time to aim before each shot.
  • 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
  • snipe fly — any of various predatory dipterous flies of the family Leptidae (or Rhagionidae), such as Rhagio scolopacea of Europe, having an elongated body and long legs
  • snipefish — any of several fishes of the family Macrorhamphosidae, of tropical and temperate seas, having a long, tubular snout and a compressed body.
  • snowfield — a large and relatively permanent expanse of snow.
  • snowflake — one of the small, feathery masses or flakes in which snow falls.
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