9-letter words containing f, a, n, l
- hindafell — Hindfell.
- in flames — to kindle or excite (passions, desires, etc.).
- inaffable — Not affable; reserved in social intercourse.
- ineffable — incapable of being expressed or described in words; inexpressible: ineffable joy.
- ineffably — incapable of being expressed or described in words; inexpressible: ineffable joy.
- infalling — (astronomy) Moving towards a massive astronomical body under the influence of gravity.
- infantile — characteristic of or befitting an infant; babyish; childish: infantile behavior.
- inferable — to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence: They inferred his displeasure from his cool tone of voice.
- inferably — to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence: They inferred his displeasure from his cool tone of voice.
- inflaming — Present participle of inflame.
- inflammed — Misspelling of inflamed.
- inflating — Present participle of inflate.
- inflation — Economics. a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency (opposed to deflation).
- inflative — causing inflation; tending to inflate (something) or produce swelling
- influenza — Pathology. an acute, commonly epidemic disease, occurring in several forms, caused by numerous rapidly mutating viral strains and characterized by respiratory symptoms and general prostration. Compare flu.
- 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.
- jerfalcon — Alternative form of gyrfalcon.
- lace-fern — a small, tufted fern, Cheilanthes gracillima, having dark-brown stalks and fronds about 4 inches (10.2 cm) long.
- lady fern — a fern, Athyrium filix-femina, having delicate, feathery fronds.
- lakefront — the land along the edge of a lake: Property along the lakefront is more expensive every year.
- lanciform — shaped like a lance: lanciform windows.
- landfalls — Plural form of landfall.
- landfills — Plural form of landfill.
- landforce — a body of people trained for land warfare
- landforms — a specific geomorphic feature on the surface of the earth, ranging from large-scale features such as plains, plateaus, and mountains to minor features such as hills, valleys, and alluvial fans.
- latensify — to increase the developability of (the latent image on a film or plate) after exposure.
- leafiness — The state or condition of being leafy.
- left bank — a part of Paris, France, on the S bank of the Seine: frequented by artists, writers, and students.
- left-hand — on or to the left: a left-hand turn at the intersection.
- leftenant — Archaic form of lieutenant.
- life span — the longest period over which the life of any organism or species may extend, according to the available biological knowledge concerning it.
- lifespans — Plural form of lifespan.
- 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.
- load fund — a mutual fund that carries transaction charges, usually a percentage of the initial investment.
- 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.
- long face — an unhappy or gloomy expression: He's been walking around with a long face ever since he failed the examination.
- magnaflux — to test (iron or steel) for defects using the Magnaflux method.
- male fern — a bright-green fern, Dryopteris filix-mas, of Europe and northeastern North America.
- manifolds — Plural form of manifold.
- mansfield — a city in W Nottinghamshire, in central England.
- matfellon — knapweed
- mean life — the average time of existence of an unstable or reactive entity, such as a nucleus, elementary particle, charge carrier, etc; lifetime. It is equal to the half-life divided by 0.693 15
- moanfully — in a moaning and mournful manner
- modafinil — A stimulant often used in the treatment of various sleep disorders, having the chemical formula C15H15NO2S.
- moon-calf — a congenitally grossly deformed and mentally defective person.
- nafcillin — A beta-lactam antibiotic of the penicillin class.
- nail file — a small file of metal or cardboard, for trimming, smoothing, or shaping the fingernails and sometimes having a point for removing dirt from under them.
- nalmefene — a drug, C 21 H 25 NO 3 , used in the treatment of dependence disorders, as alcoholism and narcotics addiction.
- newfangle — (obsolete) Eager for novelties; desirous of changing.
- newsflash — flash (def 6).