9-letter words containing a, f, i, l
- rauwolfia — any tropical tree or shrub of the genus Rauwolfia, as R. serpentina, of India.
- real life — existing or happening in reality: real-life drama.
- real-life — existing or happening in reality: real-life drama.
- refinable — to bring to a fine or a pure state; free from impurities: to refine metal, sugar, or petroleum.
- reflation — restoration of economic activity, consumer prices, etc., to higher levels by manipulating monetary policy.
- reinflame — to inflame again
- reinflate — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- requalify — to qualify again
- rijstafel — an assortment of Indonesian side dishes accompanied by rice
- sablefish — a large, blackish food fish, Anoplopoma fimbria, inhabiting waters of the North Pacific.
- safelight — a darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.
- scaldfish — a small European flatfish, Arnoglossus laterna, covered with large fragile scales: family Bothidae
- self-bias — voltage developed on an electrode in a vacuum tube circuit as a result of current flowing through a resistor in a lead to the cathode or to a grid.
- self-paid — a simple past tense and past participle of pay1 .
- semifinal — of or relating to the round preceding the final one in a tournament from which losers are eliminated.
- sheaflike — resembling a sheaf
- shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.
- snailfish — any of several elongate, smooth-skinned fishes of the family Liparididae, inhabiting cold seas, having the ventral fins modified to form a sucking disk.
- sniffable — capable of being sniffed
- soft hail — snow pellets.
- 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.
- subfamily — Biology. a category of related genera within a family.
- sulfation — Chemistry. a salt or ester of sulfuric acid.
- sulfatize — to convert into a sulfate, as by the roasting of ores.
- surficial — of or relating to a surface, especially the land surface: a surficial geologic deposit.
- syllabify — to form or divide into syllables.
- tafelwein — German table wine
- tailfirst — with the tail or rear part foremost.
- take life — to kill
- tallchief — Maria, 1925–2013, U.S. ballet dancer.
- thickleaf — any of various succulent plants of the crassulaceous genus Crassula, having sessile or short-stalked fleshy leaves
- trail off — diminish
- trifacial — trigeminal.
- trifocals — glasses with trifocal lenses
- ultrafine — extremely small or delicate
- unfailing — not failing; not giving way; not falling short of expectation; completely dependable: an unfailing friend.
- unfixable — to repair; mend.
- ungainful — lacking gain
- unifiable — capable of being unified.
- unpainful — not causing or characterized by pain; painless
- unqualify — to disqualify or to make unfit
- varifocal — having a focus that can vary
- vine leaf — leaf of a climbing plant
- waferlike — Having a shape or texture similar to a wafer.
- wakefield — a city in West Yorkshire, in N England: battle 1460.
- welfarism — the set of attitudes and policies characterizing or tending toward the establishment of a welfare state.
- welfarist — the set of attitudes and policies characterizing or tending toward the establishment of a welfare state.
- welfarite — a person who is on welfare
- wildcraft — The harvesting of wild plants to sell or make into saleable products.
- windfalls — Plural form of windfall.