9-letter words containing f, a, l, s, t
- footfalls — Plural form of footfall.
- footstalk — a pedicel; peduncle.
- footstall — the stirrup of a woman's sidesaddle.
- footwalls — Plural form of footwall.
- forestall — to prevent, hinder, or thwart by action in advance: to forestall a riot by deploying police.
- forestial — Of, like or having to do with a forest.
- formalist — strict adherence to, or observance of, prescribed or traditional forms, as in music, poetry, and art.
- forrestal — James Vincent, 1892–1949, U.S. financier, secretary of Defense 1947–49.
- fossulate — hollowed; grooved
- fractiles — Plural form of fractile.
- frailties — Plural form of frailty.
- frontalis — A muscle of the head, sometimes considered to be part of the occipitofrontalis muscle.
- frontlash — an action or opinion that is in reaction to a backlash.
- frugalist — A person who acts frugally.
- gatefolds — Plural form of gatefold.
- half rest — a rest equal in time value to a half note.
- half step — Music. semitone.
- half-mast — a position approximately halfway between the top of a mast, staff, etc., and its base.
- half-shut — partially closed
- half-step — Music. semitone.
- halftimes — Plural form of halftime.
- halftones — Plural form of halftone.
- holdfasts — Plural form of holdfast.
- hot flash — a sudden, temporary sensation of heat experienced by some women during menopause.
- 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 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.
- leafstalk — petiole (def 1).
- leftwards — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
- lifeboats — Plural form of lifeboat.
- lift-slab — noting or pertaining to a technique of constructing multistory buildings in which all horizontal slabs are cast at ground level and, when ready, are raised into position by hydraulic jacks.
- liftgates — Plural form of liftgate.
- lightfast — not affected or faded by light, especially sunlight; colorfast when exposed to light.
- loanshift — change or extension of the meaning of a word through the influence of a foreign word, as in the application in English of the meaning “profession” to the word calling through the influence of Latin vocātio.
- masterful — dominating; self-willed; imperious.
- 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
- olfactics — The study of smells and how they are perceived.
- outflanks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outflank.
- pantofles — a slipper.
- past life — previous incarnation
- 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.
- platforms — a horizontal surface or structure with a horizontal surface raised above the level of the surrounding area.
- platyfish — any of several small, yellow-gray freshwater fishes of the genus Xiphophorus, especially X. variatus, of Mexico: popular in home aquariums, in which the color varies widely.
- postfault — taking place after a fault
- postfixal — of or relating to a postfix, having postfixes
- pratfalls — a fall in which one lands on the buttocks, often regarded as comical or humiliating.
- 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.
- salt beef — beef that has been preserved in salt