9-letter words containing f, e, a, l, i
- frailness — The state of being frail; frailty; weakness.
- frailties — Plural form of frailty.
- frangible — easily broken; breakable: Most frangible toys are not suitable for young children.
- frenzical — (obsolete) frantic.
- friesland — a province in the N Netherlands. 1431 sq. mi. (3705 sq. km). Capital: Leeuwarden.
- frikkadel — A traditional Afrikaner dish of baked (or sometimes deep-fried) meatballs prepared with onion, bread, eggs, vinegar, and spices.
- fuel rail — A fuel rail is high pressure tubing which takes fuel to the injectors in an internal combustion engine.
- fulminate — to explode with a loud noise; detonate.
- fusillade — a simultaneous or continuous discharge of firearms.
- galeiform — helmet-shaped; resembling a galea.
- gallflies — Plural form of gallfly.
- gas field — a district yielding natural gas.
- half dime — a silver coin of the U.S., equal to five cents, issued 1794–1805 and 1829–73.
- half size — any size in women's garments designated by a fractional number from 12½ through 24½, designed for a short-waisted, full figure.
- half tide — the state or time of the tide when halfway between high water and low water.
- half-life — Physics. the time required for one half the atoms of a given amount of a radioactive substance to disintegrate.
- half-line — ray1 (def 7b).
- half-mile — a half of a mile (0.8 kilometer).
- half-pike — spontoon.
- half-pipe — a half-moon-shaped chute or ramp used by snowboarders and skateboarders to provide a takeoff for a jump.
- half-size — any size in women's garments designated by a fractional number from 12½ through 24½, designed for a short-waisted, full figure.
- half-tide — the state or time of the tide when halfway between high water and low water.
- half-time — the period indicating completion of half the time allowed for an activity, as for a football or basketball game or an examination.
- halfpipes — Plural form of halfpipe.
- halftimes — Plural form of halftime.
- hayfields — Plural form of hayfield.
- hindafell — Hindfell.
- ill-fated — destined, as though by fate, to an unhappy or unfortunate end: an ill-fated voyage.
- 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.
- 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.
- inflammed — Misspelling of inflamed.
- 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.
- 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.
- leafbirds — Plural form of leafbird.
- leafiness — The state or condition of being leafy.
- 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 mask — a cast of the face of a living person.
- 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 span — the longest period over which the life of any organism or species may extend, according to the available biological knowledge concerning it.
- 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.