9-letter words containing a, l, f, r
- leaf scar — the mark left on a stem or twig after a leaf falls.
- leaf-lard — lard prepared from the leaf fat of the hog.
- leafbirds — Plural form of leafbird.
- leakproof — designed to prevent leaking: a leakproof bottle.
- leapfrogs — Plural form of leapfrog.
- leftwards — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
- life raft — a raft, often inflatable, for use in emergencies, as when a ship must be abandoned or when a plane is downed at sea.
- life-care — designed to provide for the basic needs of elderly residents, usually in return for an initial fee and monthly service payments: a life-care facility; life-care communities.
- lifeguard — an expert swimmer employed, as at a beach or pool, to protect bathers from drowning or other accidents and dangers.
- lifesaver — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
- link farm — (file system, Unix) A directory tree that contains mostly symbolic links to files in a master directory tree of files. Link farms save space when one is maintaining several nearly identical copies of the same source tree - for example, when the only difference is architecture-dependent object files. They also mean that changes to the master tree are instantly visible in the link farm. Good text editors provide the option to replace a link with a new version of the target file when saving thus allowing the farm to have its own versions of just those files that differ from the master tree. E.g. "Let's freeze the source and then rebuild the FROBOZZ-3 and FROBOZZ-4 link farms." Link farms may also be used to get around restrictions on the number of "-I" (include-file directory) arguments on older C preprocessors. However, they can also get completely out of hand, becoming the file system equivalent of spaghetti code.
- liverleaf — hepatica.
- loaferish — (of a person) idle, lazy
- lovecraft — H(oward) P(hillips) 1890–1937, U.S. horror-story writer.
- male fern — a bright-green fern, Dryopteris filix-mas, of Europe and northeastern North America.
- malformed — faultily or anomalously formed.
- march fly — any of several flies of the family Bibionidae that appear during spring and early summer.
- masterful — dominating; self-willed; imperious.
- matterful — (of an author or book) full of interesting or significant ideas
- mayflower — (italics) the ship in which the Pilgrims sailed from Southampton to the New World in 1620.
- megaflora — plants large enough to be seen by the naked eye
- mirifical — (rare) miraculous, wonderful.
- mycoflora — the fungi characteristic of a particular environment.
- nonformal — Not formal.
- offerable — able to be offered
- olfactory — of or relating to the sense of smell: olfactory organs.
- orificial — (medicine) Of or relating to the orifices of the body.
- oriflamme — the red banner of St. Denis, near Paris, carried before the early kings of France as a military ensign.
- ovaliform — Shaped like an egg; having a figure such that any section in the direction of the shorter diameter will be circular, and any in the direction of the longer diameter will be oval.
- overfalls — Oceanography. water made rough by a strong current moving over a shoal, by an opposing current, or by winds blowing against the current.
- parfleche — a rawhide that has been dried after having been soaked in a solution of lye and water to remove the hair.
- pea rifle — a small rifle
- pearlfish — any of several small fishes of the family Carapidae, living within pearl oysters, sea cucumbers, starfishes, etc.
- pilferage — the act or practice of pilfering; petty theft.
- planiform — having a flattened shape, as an anatomical joint.
- platforms — a horizontal surface or structure with a horizontal surface raised above the level of the surrounding area.
- play fair — games: be sporting
- praiseful — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- pratfalls — a fall in which one lands on the buttocks, often regarded as comical or humiliating.
- prayerful — given to, characterized by, or expressive of prayer; devout.
- prefacial — located anterior to the face
- prefeudal — of the period before the feudal era
- profamily — favoring or supporting laws against abortion; antiabortion; pro-life.
- profanely — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- qualifier — a person or thing that qualifies.
- radcliffe — Ann (Ward) 1764–1823, English writer of Gothic romances.
- 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.
- ralliform — raillike in shape, anatomy, etc.
- 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.