9-letter words containing f, a, l, s, e
- halftones — Plural form of halftone.
- hayfields — Plural form of hayfield.
- in flames — to kindle or excite (passions, desires, etc.).
- latensify — to increase the developability of (the latent image on a film or plate) after exposure.
- leaf rust — a disease, especially of cereals and other grasses, characterized by rust-colored pustules of spores on the affected leaf blades and sheaths and caused by any of several rust fungi.
- leaf scar — the mark left on a stem or twig after a leaf falls.
- 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.
- leaf spot — a limited, often circular, discolored, diseased area on a leaf, usually including a central region of necrosis.
- leafbirds — Plural form of leafbird.
- leafiness — The state or condition of being leafy.
- leafstalk — petiole (def 1).
- leapfrogs — Plural form of leapfrog.
- leftwards — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
- life mask — a cast of the face of a living person.
- life span — the longest period over which the life of any organism or species may extend, according to the available biological knowledge concerning it.
- lifeboats — Plural form of lifeboat.
- lifehacks — Plural form of lifehack.
- lifesaver — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
- lifespans — Plural form of lifespan.
- liftgates — Plural form of liftgate.
- loaferish — (of a person) idle, lazy
- looseleaf — Consisting of loose leaves (pages), often collected in a binder, rather than being bound like a book or stapled.
- lose face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- makefiles — Plural form of makefile.
- mansfield — a city in W Nottinghamshire, in central England.
- masefield — John, 1878–1967, English poet: poet laureate 1930–67.
- masterful — dominating; self-willed; imperious.
- megaflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one million floating-point operations per second.
- mews flat — a flat or apartment situated in a yard or street lined by buildings originally used as stables but now often converted into dwellings
- misbefall — (transitive, obsolete) Of an event, to happen unfortunately to (a person).
- newsflash — flash (def 6).
- nose leaf — a leaflike outgrowth of skin on the nose of various bats, thought to be sensitive to vibrations of the air.
- off-sales — sales of alcoholic drink for consumption off the premises by a pub or an off-licence attached to a pub
- offsaddle — (transitive, chiefly, South Africa) To unsaddle; remove the saddle from.
- overfalls — Oceanography. water made rough by a strong current moving over a shoal, by an opposing current, or by winds blowing against the current.
- pantofles — a slipper.
- past life — previous incarnation
- pearlfish — any of several small fishes of the family Carapidae, living within pearl oysters, sea cucumbers, starfishes, etc.
- petaflops — (unit) 10^15 flops or 1000 teraflops. As with flops, the term ends in S in both the singular and plural as the S stands for seconds. The first computer to perform one petaflops was recorded in June 2008. By June 2012 there were 20.
- play safe — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- praiseful — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- qualifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of qualify.
- 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.
- red flash — a red coloration of the lower portion of the sun, occasionally seen as the sun rises above or sinks to the horizon.
- 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.
- safflower — a thistlelike composite plant, Carthamus tinctorius, native to the Old World, having finely toothed leaves and large, orange-red flower heads.
- salt beef — beef that has been preserved in salt
- salt-free — containing or involving no salt