9-letter words containing f, a, i, l, e, t
- fishplate — a metal or wooden plate or slab, bolted to each of two members that have been butted or lapped together.
- fistulate — Pathology. pertaining to or resembling a fistula.
- flagitate — to importune (someone), to demand of or entreat (someone) with passion and earnestness
- flashiest — Superlative form of flash.
- flat file — (operating system, storage) A single file containing flat ASCII representing or encoding some structure, e.g. a database, tree or network. Flat files can be processed with general purpose tools such as Perl and text editors but are less efficient than binary files if they must be parsed repeatedly by a program. Flat files are more portable between different operating systems and application programs than binary files, and are more easily transmitted in electronic mail. See also flatten, sharchive.
- flat tire — a pneumatic tire that has lost all or most of its air through leakage, puncture, or the like.
- flat-file — noting or pertaining to a database system in which each database consists of a single file not linked to any other file.
- flatlined — Simple past tense and past participle of flatline.
- flatliner — (rare) A patient with no heartbeat.
- flatlines — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flatline.
- flauntier — Comparative form of flaunty.
- fleabites — Plural form of fleabite.
- flinthead — the wood stork, Mycteria americana.
- flirtable — ready or willing to flirt.
- floriated — made of or decorated with floral ornamentation: floriated design; floriated china.
- foliature — a cluster of leaves; foliage.
- foliolate — pertaining to or consisting of leaflets (often used in combination, as bifoliolate).
- forestial — Of, like or having to do with a forest.
- fortalice — a small fort; an outwork.
- fortilage — (obsolete) A little fort; a blockhouse.
- fractiles — Plural form of fractile.
- frailties — Plural form of frailty.
- fulminate — to explode with a loud noise; detonate.
- half tide — the state or time of the tide when halfway between high water and low water.
- half-tide — the state or time of the tide when halfway between high water and low water.
- half-time — the period indicating completion of half the time allowed for an activity, as for a football or basketball game or an examination.
- halftimes — Plural form of halftime.
- ill-fated — destined, as though by fate, to an unhappy or unfortunate end: an ill-fated voyage.
- infantile — characteristic of or befitting an infant; babyish; childish: infantile behavior.
- inflative — causing inflation; tending to inflate (something) or produce swelling
- interleaf — an additional leaf, usually blank, inserted between or bound with the regular printed leaves of a book, as to separate chapters or provide room for a reader's notes.
- khalifate — the rank, jurisdiction, or government of a caliph.
- latensify — to increase the developability of (the latent image on a film or plate) after exposure.
- laticifer — a tubular structure through which latex circulates in a plant.
- leaf site — A machine that merely originates and reads Usenet news or mail, and does not relay any third-party traffic. Often uttered in a critical tone; when the ratio of leaf sites to backbone, rib, and other relay sites gets too high, the network tends to develop bottlenecks. Compare backbone site, rib site.
- left-laid — noting a rope, strand, etc., laid in a left-handed, or counterclockwise, direction as one looks away along it (opposed to right-laid).
- 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-boat — a double-ended ship's boat, constructed, mounted, and provisioned so as to be readily able to rescue and maintain persons from a sinking vessel.
- lifeboats — Plural form of lifeboat.
- lift cage — the box of a lift, in the form of an open framework
- liftgates — Plural form of liftgate.
- lightface — a type characterized by thin, light lines. This is a sample of lightface.
- olfactive — Of or pertaining to the sense of smell; olfactory.
- palafitte — a prehistoric dwelling
- past life — previous incarnation
- reflation — restoration of economic activity, consumer prices, etc., to higher levels by manipulating monetary policy.
- reinflate — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- rijstafel — an assortment of Indonesian side dishes accompanied by rice
- safelight — a darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.
- shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.