9-letter words containing aff
- gaff sail — an iron hook with a handle for landing large fish.
- giraffine — relating to the giraffe
- handstaff — a small spear
- inaffable — Not affable; reserved in social intercourse.
- jackstaff — A short flagpole at a ship’s bow, on which a jack is flown.
- kaffiyehs — Plural form of kaffiyeh.
- kaffraria — a region in the S Republic of South Africa: inhabited mostly by the Xhosa.
- luftwaffe — air force.
- overstaff — to provide an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- packstaff — a long pole for carrying a pack
- paraffine — paraffin.
- paraffiny — of, relating to, or characteristic of paraffin; covered with or smelling of paraffin
- pikestaff — the shaft of an infantry pike.
- quaffable — (informal, usually referring to wine) Easy to drink.
- raffinate — the part of a liquid, especially an oil, remaining after its more soluble components have been extracted by a solvent.
- 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.
- re-affirm — to state or assert positively; maintain as true: to affirm one's loyalty to one's country; He affirmed that all was well.
- reaffirms — to state or assert positively; maintain as true: to affirm one's loyalty to one's country; He affirmed that all was well.
- riff-raff — If you refer to a group of people as riff-raff, you disapprove of them because you think they are not respectable.
- safflower — a thistlelike composite plant, Carthamus tinctorius, native to the Old World, having finely toothed leaves and large, orange-red flower heads.
- saffroned — containing or coloured by saffron
- sgraffito — a technique of ornamentation in which a surface layer of paint, plaster, slip, etc., is incised to reveal a ground of contrasting color.
- staffroom — room for teachers at school
- strafford — 1st Earl of (Thomas Wentworth) 1593–1641, English statesman: chief adviser of Charles I of England.
- trafficky — (of a street, area, town, etc) busy with motor vehicles
- unaffable — pleasantly easy to approach and to talk to; friendly; cordial; warmly polite: an affable and courteous gentleman.
- unbaffled — not baffled or confused by contradictions
- unraffled — a form of lottery in which a number of persons buy one or more chances to win a prize.
- unstaffed — a group of persons, as employees, charged with carrying out the work of an establishment or executing some undertaking.
- waffen ss — the militarized formations of the SS, established by Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945 and including some units of foreign nationals from occupied territories.
- waitstaff — a staff of waiters or waitresses who wait on tables, as in a restaurant.
- whipstaff — a bar attached to a ship's tiller to assist with steering