9-letter words containing f, i, l, m, a
- hill farm — a farm in a high area, usually concentrating on sheep, because of the lack of winter fodder
- impactful — having or manifesting a great impact or effect: After the senator's impactful speech, her bill passed.
- in flames — to kindle or excite (passions, desires, etc.).
- inflaming — Present participle of inflame.
- inflammed — Misspelling of inflamed.
- lanciform — shaped like a lance: lanciform windows.
- larviform — (zoology) Having the form or structure of a larva.
- life mask — a cast of the face of a living person.
- 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.
- mail flag — a flag of the International Code of Signals symbolizing the letter Y, flown alone by a ship to indicate that it is carrying mail: a square flag with red and yellow diagonal stripes.
- makefiles — Plural form of makefile.
- mala fide — in bad faith; not genuine.
- manifolds — Plural form of manifold.
- mansfield — a city in W Nottinghamshire, in central England.
- masefield — John, 1878–1967, English poet: poet laureate 1930–67.
- mcauliffe — Anthony Clement, 1898–1975, U.S. Army general.
- mean life — the average time of existence of an unstable or reactive entity, such as a nucleus, elementary particle, charge carrier, etc; lifetime. It is equal to the half-life divided by 0.693 15
- mirifical — (rare) miraculous, wonderful.
- misbefall — (transitive, obsolete) Of an event, to happen unfortunately to (a person).
- modafinil — A stimulant often used in the treatment of various sleep disorders, having the chemical formula C15H15NO2S.
- nonfamily — Not a member of the family.
- 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.
- planiform — having a flattened shape, as an anatomical joint.
- profamily — favoring or supporting laws against abortion; antiabortion; pro-life.
- ralliform — raillike in shape, anatomy, etc.
- reinflame — to inflame again
- semifinal — of or relating to the round preceding the final one in a tournament from which losers are eliminated.
- subfamily — Biology. a category of related genera within a family.
- welfarism — the set of attitudes and policies characterizing or tending toward the establishment of a welfare state.
- wolframic — tungstic.