9-letter words containing s, o, l, f
- snowflake — one of the small, feathery masses or flakes in which snow falls.
- soft clam — soft-shell clam.
- soft coal — bituminous coal.
- soft hail — snow pellets.
- soft lens — a nonrigid contact lens made of porous plastic, having a high water content that is replenished from eye surface moisture.
- soft line — a position or policy, as in politics, that is moderate and flexible.
- soft loan — A soft loan is a loan with a very low interest rate. Soft loans are usually made to developing countries or to businesses in developing countries.
- soft sell — gentle persuasion to buy sth
- soft-bill — any of numerous birds, as thrushes or tanagers, having relatively weak bills suited for eating insects, soft-bodied animals, and fruit rather than hard seeds.
- soft-boil — to boil (an egg) just long enough for the yolk and white to partially solidify, usually three or four minutes.
- soft-land — to cause to land slowly and without jarring impact: to soft-land the module on the planet's surface.
- soft-sell — to promote (a product, service, etc.) using indirect or gentle persuasion: an advertising campaign to soft-sell a new perfume.
- solemnify — to make solemn: to solemnify an occasion with hymns and prayers.
- solfatara — a fumarole that gives off only sulfurous gases.
- solfeggio — a vocal exercise in which the sol-fa syllables are used.
- solferino — a village in SE Lombardy, in N Italy: battle 1859. 1811.
- solid for — unanimously in favour of
- solifugid — sun spider.
- sootflake — a smudge or speck of soot
- sorrowful — full of or feeling sorrow; grieved; sad.
- soul food — traditional black American cookery, which originated in the rural South, consisting of such foods as chitterlings, pig knuckles, turnip greens, and cornbread.
- 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.
- spiel off — to recite by or as if by rote
- splayfoot — a broad, flat foot, especially one turned outward.
- split off — separate from group
- split-off — the act of separating or splitting away from something else.
- spoil for — If you are spoiling for a fight, you are very eager for it to happen.
- spoilfive — a game played by two to ten persons having five cards each.
- spongefly — any of several insects of the family Sisyridae, the aquatic larvae of which feed on freshwater sponges.
- styliform — having the shape of an ancient style; stylar.
- subfossil — something partly fossilized
- sugarloaf — a large, usually conical loaf or mass of hard refined sugar: the common form of household sugar until the mid-19th century.
- sulfation — Chemistry. a salt or ester of sulfuric acid.
- sulfonate — an ester or salt derived from a sulfonic acid.
- sulfonium — the positively charged group H 3 S + , its salts, or their substitute products.
- sulfoxide — a brown liquid, C 1 8 H 2 8 O 3 S, insoluble in water, used as an insecticide synergist.
- 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.
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
- top shelf — of highest quality
- townsfolk — citizens, local people
- trifocals — glasses with trifocal lenses
- ufologist — the study of unidentified flying objects.
- ultrasoft — extremely soft
- unfoolish — resulting from or showing a lack of sense; ill-considered; unwise: a foolish action, a foolish speech.
- wofulness — the state or condition of being woeful
- wolfishly — resembling a wolf, as in form or characteristics.
- wolfsbane — any of several plants in the aconite genus Aconitum, including A. lycoctonum, bearing stalks of hood-shaped purplish-blue flowers, the monkshood A. napellus, which yields a poisonous alkaloid used medicinally, and numerous garden varieties in various colors.
- wolfsburg — a city in Lower Saxony, in N central Germany, near Brunswick.