9-letter words containing f, i, l, a, r
- inferably — to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence: They inferred his displeasure from his cool tone of voice.
- 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.
- lanciform — shaped like a lance: lanciform windows.
- larviform — (zoology) Having the form or structure of a larva.
- laticifer — a tubular structure through which latex circulates in a plant.
- leafbirds — Plural form of leafbird.
- 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-care — designed to provide for the basic needs of elderly residents, usually in return for an initial fee and monthly service payments: a life-care facility; life-care communities.
- lifeguard — an expert swimmer employed, as at a beach or pool, to protect bathers from drowning or other accidents and dangers.
- lifesaver — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
- link farm — (file system, Unix) A directory tree that contains mostly symbolic links to files in a master directory tree of files. Link farms save space when one is maintaining several nearly identical copies of the same source tree - for example, when the only difference is architecture-dependent object files. They also mean that changes to the master tree are instantly visible in the link farm. Good text editors provide the option to replace a link with a new version of the target file when saving thus allowing the farm to have its own versions of just those files that differ from the master tree. E.g. "Let's freeze the source and then rebuild the FROBOZZ-3 and FROBOZZ-4 link farms." Link farms may also be used to get around restrictions on the number of "-I" (include-file directory) arguments on older C preprocessors. However, they can also get completely out of hand, becoming the file system equivalent of spaghetti code.
- liverleaf — hepatica.
- loaferish — (of a person) idle, lazy
- mirifical — (rare) miraculous, wonderful.
- orificial — (medicine) Of or relating to the orifices of the body.
- oriflamme — the red banner of St. Denis, near Paris, carried before the early kings of France as a military ensign.
- ovaliform — Shaped like an egg; having a figure such that any section in the direction of the shorter diameter will be circular, and any in the direction of the longer diameter will be oval.
- pea rifle — a small rifle
- pearlfish — any of several small fishes of the family Carapidae, living within pearl oysters, sea cucumbers, starfishes, etc.
- pilferage — the act or practice of pilfering; petty theft.
- planiform — having a flattened shape, as an anatomical joint.
- play fair — games: be sporting
- praiseful — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- prefacial — located anterior to the face
- profamily — favoring or supporting laws against abortion; antiabortion; pro-life.
- qualifier — a person or thing that qualifies.
- radcliffe — Ann (Ward) 1764–1823, English writer of Gothic romances.
- rafflesia — any stemless, leafless, parasitic plant of the genus Rafflesia, of the Malay Peninsula and Republic of Indonesia, characterized by apetalous flowers, measuring 3 in.–3 feet (8 cm–90 cm) in diameter, that exude a putrid odor: now greatly reduced in number.
- ralliform — raillike in shape, anatomy, etc.
- rauwolfia — any tropical tree or shrub of the genus Rauwolfia, as R. serpentina, of India.
- real life — existing or happening in reality: real-life drama.
- real-life — existing or happening in reality: real-life drama.
- refinable — to bring to a fine or a pure state; free from impurities: to refine metal, sugar, or petroleum.
- reflation — restoration of economic activity, consumer prices, etc., to higher levels by manipulating monetary policy.
- reinflame — to inflame again
- reinflate — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- requalify — to qualify again
- rijstafel — an assortment of Indonesian side dishes accompanied by rice
- 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.
- surficial — of or relating to a surface, especially the land surface: a surficial geologic deposit.
- tailfirst — with the tail or rear part foremost.
- trail off — diminish
- trifacial — trigeminal.
- trifocals — glasses with trifocal lenses
- ultrafine — extremely small or delicate
- varifocal — having a focus that can vary
- waferlike — Having a shape or texture similar to a wafer.
- welfarism — the set of attitudes and policies characterizing or tending toward the establishment of a welfare state.
- welfarist — the set of attitudes and policies characterizing or tending toward the establishment of a welfare state.
- welfarite — a person who is on welfare