9-letter words that end in f
- count off — to separate into equal divisions by counting
- cowlstaff — a staff or pole used by two people to carry a vessel, sometimes used as a weapon
- crack off — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- cream off — To cream off part of a group of people means to take them away and treat them in a special way, because they are better than the others.
- creampuff — puff pastry filled with cream
- cross off — If you cross off words on a list, you decide that they no longer belong on the list, and often you draw a line through them to indicate this.
- crossruff — the alternate trumping of each other's leads by two partners, or by declarer and dummy
- curb roof — a roof having two or more slopes on each side of the ridge
- cyberself — An alternate self on the Internet or in cyberspace; an online alter-ego.
- dampproof — resistant to dampness or the effects of dampness.
- den chief — (in the Boy Scouts) a boy scout who supervises a cub scout den in cooperation with a den mother or den father.
- dire wolf — an extinct wolf, Canis dirus, widespread in North America during the Pleistocene Epoch, having a larger body and a smaller brain than the modern wolf.
- disbelief — the inability or refusal to believe or to accept something as true.
- do out of — Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- dock leaf — the typically broad leaf of any of various temperate weedy plants of the polygonaceous genus Rumex, having greenish or reddish flowers
- drain off — liquid: remove
- drift off — fall asleep
- drive off — vehicle: pull out, move off
- drop leaf — a hinged leaf attached to the end or side of a table that can be raised to extend the tabletop or folded vertically downward when not in use.
- dustproof — impervious to or free of dust.
- ethelwulf — died 858 ad, king of Wessex (839–858)
- fadeproof — Resistant to fading.
- faux-naif — marked by a pretense of simplicity or innocence; disingenuous.
- feedstuff — feed (def 13).
- fence off — If you fence off an area of land, you build a fence round it.
- fence-off — a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.
- fight off — defend yourself from
- film buff — a connoisseur of or expert on cinema and films
- fireproof — resistant to destruction by fire.
- first off — being before all others with respect to time, order, rank, importance, etc., used as the ordinal number of one: the first edition; the first vice president.
- fisticuff — a cuff or blow with the fist.
- flagstaff — flagpole.
- flake off — become detached in thin pieces
- flame off — flame on
- float off — to offer (shares in a subsidiary company) for sale on the stock market separately from the main company
- foodstuff — a substance used or capable of being used as nutriment.
- foolproof — involving no risk or harm, even when tampered with.
- forestaff — cross-staff.
- galeproof — Capable of resisting a gale.
- germproof — not vulnerable to the action or penetration of germs.
- go out of — If a quality or feeling goes out of someone or something, they no longer have it.
- gold leaf — gold in the form of very thin foil, as for gilding.
- good self — a polite way of referring to or addressing a person (or persons), used following your, his, her, or their
- goofproof — (of a product, procedure, etc.) designed to be simple enough for anyone to use or implement.
- gray wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus, having a usually grizzled, blackish, or whitish coat: formerly common in Eurasia and North America, some subspecies are now reduced in numbers or near extinction.
- gurdjieff — George Ivanovich (George S. Georgiades) 1872–1949, Armenian-born spiritual leader and author.
- half-deaf — partially or wholly lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing; unable to hear.
- hands off — of, belonging to, using, or used by the hand.
- hands-off — characterized by nonintervention or noninterference: the new hands-off foreign policy.
- handstaff — a small spear