9-letter words containing f, i, e, l
- 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.).
- in flower — When a plant is in flower or when it has come into flower, its flowers have appeared and opened.
- in itself — per se
- in relief — carved or molded so as to project from a surface
- inaffable — Not affable; reserved in social intercourse.
- inciteful — That incites (rouses, stirs up or excites), or provides incitement.
- 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.
- infertile — not fertile; unproductive; sterile; barren: infertile soil.
- infidelic — Religion. a person who does not accept a particular faith, especially Christianity. (in Christian use) an unbeliever, especially a Muslim. (in Muslim use) a person who does not accept the Islamic faith; kafir (def 2).
- infielder — any of the four defensive players stationed around the infield.
- inflammed — Misspelling of inflamed.
- inflative — causing inflation; tending to inflate (something) or produce swelling
- inflected — to modulate (the voice).
- inflexion — modulation of the voice; change in pitch or tone of voice.
- inflicted — to impose as something that must be borne or suffered: to inflict punishment.
- inflicter — One who inflicts.
- influence — the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others: He used family influence to get the contract.
- influents — Plural form of influent.
- 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.
- infusible — capable of being infused.
- interfile — to combine two or more similarly arranged sets of items, as cards or documents, into a single file.
- interflow — to flow into each other; intermingle.
- interfold — to fold one within another; fold together.
- 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.
- jellified — Simple past tense and past participle of jellify.
- jellifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jellify.
- jellyfish — any of various marine coelenterates of a soft, gelatinous structure, especially one with an umbrellalike body and long, trailing tentacles; medusa.
- jewelfish — a brightly colored cichlid fish, Hemichromis bimaculatus, native to Africa: popular in home aquariums.
- jollifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jollify.
- key field — (database) A field of a database (typically a relational database) table which together form a unique identifier for a record (a table entry). The aggregate of these fields is usually referred to simply as "the key".
- khalifate — the rank, jurisdiction, or government of a caliph.
- kill file — [Usenet] Per-user file(s) used by some Usenet reading programs (originally Larry Wall's rn) to discard summarily (without presenting for reading) articles matching some particularly uninteresting (or unwanted) patterns of subject, author, or other header lines. Thus to add a person (or subject) to one's kill file is to arrange for that person to be ignored by one's newsreader in future. By extension, it may be used for a decision to ignore the person or subject in other media. See also plonk.
- killfiled — Simple past tense and past participle of killfile.
- killfiles — Plural form of killfile.
- knifeless — without a knife
- knifelike — Resembling a knife or its effects.
- 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 join — outer join
- left wing — members of a liberal or radical political party, or those favoring extensive political reform.
- 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).
- left-wing — members of a liberal or radical political party, or those favoring extensive political reform.