9-letter words containing s, u
- fast buck — money made easily or quickly and sometimes unscrupulously: He speculated briefly in the commodities market in the hope of making a fast buck.
- fastigium — the highest point of a fever or disease; the period of greatest development of an infection.
- fat mouse — any nocturnal African mouse of the genus Steatomys, of dry regions: eaten as a delicacy by Africans because of their high fat content: family Muridae
- fatuities — Plural form of fatuity.
- fatuitous — complacently stupid; foolish.
- fatuously — With smug stupidity or vacuous silliness; idiotically.
- faultless — without fault, flaw, or defect; perfect.
- faunistic — of or relating to the geographical distribution of animal life.
- favillous — (obsolete) Of or pertaining to ashes.
- favourous — Rare spelling of favorous.
- feedstuff — feed (def 13).
- felonious — Law. pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a felony: felonious homicide; felonious intent.
- feng shui — Feng shui is a Chinese art which is based on the belief that the way you arrange things within a building, and within the rooms of that building, can affect aspects of your life such as how happy and successful you are.
- feracious — Producing in abundance; fertile, fruitful.
- ferocious — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
- fervorous — With fervour; fervent.
- festucine — (obsolete) Of a straw colour; greenish-yellow.
- feudalism — the feudal system, or its principles and practices.
- feudalist — the feudal system, or its principles and practices.
- fibrinous — the insoluble protein end product of blood coagulation, formed from fibrinogen by the action of thrombin in the presence of calcium ions.
- fibrously — In a fibrous manner.
- figurants — Plural form of figurant.
- figurines — Plural form of figurine.
- filaceous — composed of threads
- filatures — Plural form of filature.
- filovirus — any of several filamentous, single-stranded RNA viruses of the family Filoviridae, defined by their unique appearance and reproductive strategies, as the Ebola and Marburg viruses.
- finish up — complete
- firehouse — fire station.
- fireplugs — Plural form of fireplug.
- first run — the initial exhibition period for a film.
- first-run — designating or of:
- fish duck — merganser.
- fish glue — a type of glue made by prolonged boiling of the connective tissue of fish
- fishguard — a port and resort in SW Wales, in Pembrokeshire: ferry connections to Cork and Rosslare. Pop: 3193 (2001)
- fishpound — a submerged net used in commercial fishing for capturing fish.
- fissuring — Present participle of fissure.
- fist bump — a gesture of greeting, friendship, triumph, etc., in which two people make a fist and bump each other's knuckles.
- fist pump — a gesture of enthusiasm, victory, etc., in which one raises a fist and thrusts the forearm quickly and forcefully forward or downward.
- fisticuff — a cuff or blow with the fist.
- fistulate — Pathology. pertaining to or resembling a fistula.
- fistulize — Pathology. to form a fistula.
- fistulose — Formed like a fistula; hollow; reed-like.
- fistulous — Pathology. pertaining to or resembling a fistula.
- flag smut — a disease of cereals and other grasses, characterized by stripes of black spores on the affected leaves and stems, which later dry up and become shredded, caused by several smut fungi of the genus Urocystis.
- flagitous — (archaic) wicked, reprehensible.
- flak suit — a suit of two or more padded armored garments designed to protect the body from shrapnel.
- flameouts — Plural form of flameout.
- flaminius — Gaius [gey-uh s] /ˈgeɪ əs/ (Show IPA), died 217 b.c, Roman statesman and general who was defeated by Hannibal.
- flash gun — a device that simultaneously discharges a flashbulb and operates a camera shutter.
- flashbulb — a glass bulb, filled with oxygen and aluminum or zirconium wire or foil, which, when ignited electrically, burns with a brilliant flash to provide momentary illumination of a subject.