9-letter words containing f, a, t, i, l
- infantile — characteristic of or befitting an infant; babyish; childish: infantile behavior.
- 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
- 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.
- khalifate — the rank, jurisdiction, or government of a caliph.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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
- 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.
- lightface — a type characterized by thin, light lines. This is a sample of lightface.
- 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.
- nightfall — the coming of night; the end of daylight; dusk.
- olfactics — The study of smells and how they are perceived.
- olfaction — the act of smelling.
- olfactive — Of or pertaining to the sense of smell; olfactory.
- palafitte — a prehistoric dwelling
- past life — previous incarnation
- plaintful — complaining or lamenting
- plaintiff — a person who brings suit in a court (opposed to defendant).
- 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.
- postfixal — of or relating to a postfix, having postfixes
- reflation — restoration of economic activity, consumer prices, etc., to higher levels by manipulating monetary policy.
- 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.
- shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.
- soft hail — snow pellets.
- stairlift — A stairlift is a device that is fitted to a staircase in a house in order to allow an elderly or sick person to go upstairs.
- sulfation — Chemistry. a salt or ester of sulfuric acid.
- sulfatize — to convert into a sulfate, as by the roasting of ores.
- tafelwein — German table wine
- tailfirst — with the tail or rear part foremost.
- take life — to kill
- tallchief — Maria, 1925–2013, U.S. ballet dancer.
- thickleaf — any of various succulent plants of the crassulaceous genus Crassula, having sessile or short-stalked fleshy leaves
- trail off — diminish
- trifacial — trigeminal.
- trifocals — glasses with trifocal lenses
- ultrafine — extremely small or delicate
- welfarist — the set of attitudes and policies characterizing or tending toward the establishment of a welfare state.
- welfarite — a person who is on welfare
- wildcraft — The harvesting of wild plants to sell or make into saleable products.