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9-letter words that end in ff

  • hot stuff — a person or thing of exceptional interest or merit.
  • huff-duff — a method used by the Allies in World War II for locating enemy submarines and other naval or land targets through simultaneous bearings on their radio transmissions.
  • in a huff — indignant
  • jackstaff — A short flagpole at a ship’s bow, on which a jack is flown.
  • kid stuff — something appropriate only for children.
  • kirchhoff — Gustav Robert [goo s-tahf roh-bert] /ˈgʊs tɑf ˈroʊ bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1824–87, German physicist.
  • knock off — an act or instance of knocking.
  • laugh off — to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.
  • leave off — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
  • level off — a device used for determining or adjusting something to a horizontal surface.
  • level-off — the maneuver of bringing an aircraft into a horizontal flying position after an ascent or descent.
  • marry off — to take in marriage: After dating for five years, I finally asked her to marry me.
  • mouth off — Anatomy, Zoology. the opening through which an animal or human takes in food. the cavity containing the structures used in mastication. the structures enclosing or being within this cavity, considered as a whole.
  • nontariff — Not a tariff.
  • overstaff — to provide an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
  • overstuff — to force too much into: If you overstuff your suitcase, the fastenings may not hold.
  • packstaff — a long pole for carrying a pack
  • pecksniff — a person of Pecksniffian attitudes or behavior: a virtuousness that only a pecksniff could aspire to.
  • pikestaff — the shaft of an infantry pike.
  • plaintiff — a person who brings suit in a court (opposed to defendant).
  • plum duff — a duff containing raisins.
  • point off — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
  • poliakoff — Stephen. born 1952, British playwright and film director; work includes the stage plays Breaking the Silence (1984) and Blinded by the Sun (1996) and the television serials The Lost Prince (2003), Friends and Crocodiles (2005), and Dancing on the Edge (2013)
  • puff-puff — a children's name for a steam locomotive or railway train
  • red stuff — a compound of oil and sesquioxide of iron used for polishing brass, steel, silver, etc.; crocus or rouge.
  • reznikoff — Charles, 1894–1976, U.S. poet.
  • riff-raff — If you refer to a group of people as riff-raff, you disapprove of them because you think they are not respectable.
  • right off — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
  • round off — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
  • round-off — of or relating to the act or process of rounding.
  • sawed-off — sawed off at the end, as a shotgun or broomstick.
  • scare off — frighten away
  • score off — to gain an advantage at someone else's expense
  • screw off — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
  • screw-off — a loafer; idler.
  • semistiff — somewhat or fairly stiff; partially stiff
  • shake off — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
  • shear off — remove by cutting, slice away
  • shoot-off — a final or additional contest to decide the winner in a rifle or pistol competition.
  • shove off — to move along by force from behind; push.
  • shrug off — to raise and contract (the shoulders), expressing indifference, disdain, etc.
  • skewwhiff — not straight; askew
  • slack off — not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
  • sleep off — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
  • sling off — to laugh or jeer (at)
  • smart off — to be impertinent or flippant
  • sob stuff — material such as films, stories, etc, that play upon the emotions by the overuse of pathos and sentiment
  • sound off — the sensation produced by stimulation of the organs of hearing by vibrations transmitted through the air or other medium.
  • spark off — cause, provoke
  • spiel off — to recite by or as if by rote
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