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9-letter words containing f, a, s

  • landfalls — Plural form of landfall.
  • landfills — Plural form of landfill.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • loaferish — (of a person) idle, lazy
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • magnifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of magnify.
  • makefiles — Plural form of makefile.
  • makeshift — a temporary expedient or substitute: We used boxes as a makeshift while the kitchen chairs were being painted.
  • mammifers — Plural form of mammifer.
  • manifesto — a public declaration of intentions, opinions, objectives, or motives, as one issued by a government, sovereign, or organization.
  • manifests — Plural form of manifest.
  • manifolds — Plural form of manifold.
  • mansfield — a city in W Nottinghamshire, in central England.
  • masefield — John, 1878–1967, English poet: poet laureate 1930–67.
  • masterful — dominating; self-willed; imperious.
  • meat safe — a container where meat is stored
  • megafirms — Plural form of megafirm.
  • 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
  • mineshaft — A vertical hole, sunk down through the strata to reach the mineral which was to be mined.
  • misbefall — (transitive, obsolete) Of an event, to happen unfortunately to (a person).
  • misfeasor — a person who is guilty of misfeasance.
  • motoscafo — a passenger motorboat most often used on the canals in Venice
  • mud-flaps — a large flap behind a rear tire to prevent mud, water, etc., from being splashed on the following vehicle.
  • musharraf — Pervez (ˈpɛrveɪz). born 1943, Pakistani general and politician; became military leader of Pakistan following a coup in 2001; president (2001–08)
  • nefandous — Unspeakable, appalling.
  • nefarious — extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous: a nefarious plot.
  • newsflash — flash (def 6).
  • nonfiscal — not involving government funds
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