9-letter words containing f, a, t, e, l
- khalifate — the rank, jurisdiction, or government of a caliph.
- lafayette — Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier [ma-ree zhaw-zef pawl eev rawk zheel-ber dy maw-tyey] /maˈri ʒɔˈzɛf pɔl iv rɔk ʒilˈbɛr dü mɔˈtyeɪ/ (Show IPA), Marquis de. Also, La Fayette. 1757–1834, French soldier, statesman, and liberal leader, who served in the American Revolutionary Army as aide-de-camp to General Washington, and took a leading part in the French revolutions of 1789 and 1830.
- lakefront — the land along the edge of a lake: Property along the lakefront is more expensive every year.
- 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.
- lead foot — a person who drives a motor vehicle too fast, especially habitually.
- lead-foot — a person who drives a motor vehicle too fast, especially habitually.
- 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.
- leafleted — Simple past tense and past participle of leaflet.
- leafstalk — petiole (def 1).
- left back — a defending player on the left side of the field
- left bank — a part of Paris, France, on the S bank of the Seine: frequented by artists, writers, and students.
- left half — a defensive player who plays midfield, on the left side of the pitch
- left-face — a 90° turn to the left, especially as a marching command.
- left-hand — on or to the left: a left-hand turn at the intersection.
- 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).
- leftenant — Archaic form of lieutenant.
- leftwards — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
- 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.
- lovecraft — H(oward) P(hillips) 1890–1937, U.S. horror-story writer.
- luftwaffe — air force.
- maleffect — an undesirable effect
- masterful — dominating; self-willed; imperious.
- matfellon — knapweed
- matterful — (of an author or book) full of interesting or significant ideas
- meat loaf — a dish of ground meat, often mixed with other ingredients, as bread crumbs and seasonings, molded in the shape of a loaf and baked.
- 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
- olfactive — Of or pertaining to the sense of smell; olfactory.
- palafitte — a prehistoric dwelling
- 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.
- quad left — (in computer typesetting) flush left.
- reflation — restoration of economic activity, consumer prices, etc., to higher levels by manipulating monetary policy.
- refutable — to prove to be false or erroneous, as an opinion or charge.
- 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.
- salt beef — beef that has been preserved in salt
- salt-free — containing or involving no salt
- scatheful — causing harm or injury
- self-hate — to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest: to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry.
- self-mate — a move that will cause a player's king to be mated within a certain number of subsequent moves.