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9-letter words containing s, t, f, r, a

  • fructosan — any of the class of hexosans, as inulin and the like, that yield fructose upon hydrolysis.
  • frugalist — A person who acts frugally.
  • frustrate — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
  • gearshift — shift lever.
  • gratifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gratify.
  • half rest — a rest equal in time value to a half note.
  • headfirst — with the head in front or bent forward; headforemost: He dived headfirst into the sea.
  • hoarfrost — frost (def 2).
  • isografts — Plural form of isograft.
  • 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.
  • leftwards — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
  • masterful — dominating; self-willed; imperious.
  • nosferatu — Alternative form of Nosferatu.
  • of a sort — a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
  • overstaff — to provide an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
  • perfusate — a fluid pumped or flowing through an organ or tissue.
  • platforms — a horizontal surface or structure with a horizontal surface raised above the level of the surrounding area.
  • pratfalls — a fall in which one lands on the buttocks, often regarded as comical or humiliating.
  • rankshift — (in systemic linguistics) to use a unit as a constituent of another unit of the same or lower rank on the rank scale, as in using the phrase next door within the phrase the boy next door or the clause that you met yesterday within the phrase the girl that you met yesterday.
  • rastafari — Rastafarian (def 1).
  • 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
  • rockshaft — an oscillating shaft.
  • salt-free — containing or involving no salt
  • sea front — an area, including buildings, along the edge of the sea; waterfront.
  • see after — to perceive with the eyes; look at.
  • sgraffito — a technique of ornamentation in which a surface layer of paint, plaster, slip, etc., is incised to reveal a ground of contrasting color.
  • shopcraft — any of various skilled trades involving maintenance or repair work, as metalworking or boilermaking, especially in the railroad industry.
  • shortfall — the quantity or extent by which something falls short; deficiency; shortage.
  • smart off — to be impertinent or flippant
  • softboard — a soft, porous particle board.
  • solfatara — a fumarole that gives off only sulfurous gases.
  • songcraft — the art of songwriting
  • staffroom — room for teachers at school
  • stairfoot — the area at the foot of a flight of stairs
  • stairlift — A stairlift is a device that is fitted to a staircase in a house in order to allow an elderly or sick person to go upstairs.
  • stand for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
  • stardrift — the very small continuous change in the direction of movement which is shared by the stars within a particular cluster
  • start off — begin sth
  • statfarad — the electrostatic unit of capacitance, equivalent to 1.1126 × 10 −12 farad and equal to the capacitance of a condenser in which one statcoulomb is transferred from one conductor of the condenser to the other per volt of potential difference between the conductors.
  • sternfast — a rope for securing a boat at stern to another boat, dock, or buoy
  • stiff arm — to push away (an opponent) with one's arm out straight
  • stiff-arm — straight-arm.
  • stiffware — a type of computer software that is difficult to modify
  • strafford — 1st Earl of (Thomas Wentworth) 1593–1641, English statesman: chief adviser of Charles I of England.
  • stratford — a town in SW Connecticut, near Bridgeport: Shakespeare theater.
  • stud farm — place where horses are bred
  • styrofoam — Styrofoam is a very light, plastic substance, used especially to make containers.
  • sulfurate — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur, the fumes of burning sulfur, etc.
  • superfast — very or extremely fast
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