9-letter words containing f, i, l, p
- half-slip — a woman's skirtlike undergarment, usually of a straight or slightly flared shape and having a narrow elasticized waistband.
- halfpipes — Plural form of halfpipe.
- hip flask — small container for carrying alcohol
- impactful — having or manifesting a great impact or effect: After the senator's impactful speech, her bill passed.
- kiloflops — (unit) 1000 FLOPS. See prefix.
- lapidific — involved in or relating to the process of changing into stone
- life peer — a peer whose title ceases at death; nonhereditary peer.
- life span — the longest period over which the life of any organism or species may extend, according to the available biological knowledge concerning it.
- lifespans — Plural form of lifespan.
- lift pump — a pump in which a liquid is lifted rather than forced up from below.
- pacifical — having an appeasing nature
- painfully — affected with, causing, or characterized by pain: a painful wound; a painful night; a painful memory.
- palafitte — a prehistoric dwelling
- pass-fail — a system of grading in some educational institutions in which a student simply passes or fails instead of receiving a letter or numerical grade.
- past life — previous incarnation
- pea rifle — a small rifle
- pearlfish — any of several small fishes of the family Carapidae, living within pearl oysters, sea cucumbers, starfishes, etc.
- pelletify — to shape into pellets
- pelviform — basin-shaped
- pilferage — the act or practice of pilfering; petty theft.
- pilfering — stealing, petty theft
- pilotfish — a small, marine fish, Naucrates ductor, often swimming with sharks.
- pitifully — evoking or deserving pity: a pitiful fate.
- plaintful — complaining or lamenting
- plaintiff — a person who brings suit in a court (opposed to defendant).
- plan file — (operating system) On Unix systems that support finger, the ".plan" file in a user's home directory is displayed when the user is fingered. This feature was originally intended to be used to keep potential fingerers apprised of one's location and near-future plans, but has been turned almost universally to humorous and self-expressive purposes (like a sig block). See also Hacking X for Y. A later innovation in plan files was the introduction of "scrolling plan files" which are one-dimensional animations made using only the printable ASCII character set, carriage return and line feed, avoiding terminal specific escape sequences, since the finger command will (for security reasons; see letterbomb) not pass the escape character. Scrolling .plan files have become art forms in miniature, and some sites have started competitions to find who can create the longest running, funniest, and most original animations. A compiler (ASP) is available on Usenet for producing them. Typical animation components include: See also twirling baton.
- planiform — having a flattened shape, as an anatomical joint.
- 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.
- play fair — games: be sporting
- playfield — a field for sports or public festivities
- plentiful — existing in great plenty: Coal was plentiful, and therefore cheap, in that region.
- plexiform — of, relating to, or resembling a plexus.
- plightful — filled with distress
- poliakoff — Stephen. born 1952, British playwright and film director; work includes the stage plays Breaking the Silence (1984) and Blinded by the Sun (1996) and the television serials The Lost Prince (2003), Friends and Crocodiles (2005), and Dancing on the Edge (2013)
- pollyfish — parrotfish.
- pond life — the animals that live in ponds
- portfolio — a flat, portable case for carrying loose papers, drawings, etc.
- postfixal — of or relating to a postfix, having postfixes
- praiseful — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- prefacial — located anterior to the face
- prefilled — filled in advance
- prefilter — any substance, as cloth, paper, porous porcelain, or a layer of charcoal or sand, through which liquid or gas is passed to remove suspended impurities or to recover solids.
- preflight — occurring or done before a flight: a preflight briefing of the plane's crew.
- profamily — favoring or supporting laws against abortion; antiabortion; pro-life.
- profiling — the outline or contour of the human face, especially the face viewed from one side.
- profilist — a person who creates a profile
- puffingly — in a puffing manner
- rifle pit — a pit or short trench affording shelter to riflemen in firing at an enemy.
- self-paid — a simple past tense and past participle of pay1 .
- self-pity — pity for oneself, especially a self-indulgent attitude concerning one's own difficulties, hardships, etc.: We must resist yielding to self-pity and carry on as best we can.