9-letter words containing f, i, l, t
- impactful — having or manifesting a great impact or effect: After the senator's impactful speech, her bill passed.
- in itself — per se
- in-flight — done, served, or shown during an air voyage: an in-flight movie.
- inciteful — That incites (rouses, stirs up or excites), or provides incitement.
- infantile — characteristic of or befitting an infant; babyish; childish: infantile behavior.
- infertile — not fertile; unproductive; sterile; barren: infertile soil.
- inflating — Present participle of inflate.
- inflation — Economics. a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency (opposed to deflation).
- inflative — causing inflation; tending to inflate (something) or produce swelling
- inflected — to modulate (the voice).
- inflicted — to impose as something that must be borne or suffered: to inflict punishment.
- inflicter — One who inflicts.
- inflictor — to impose as something that must be borne or suffered: to inflict punishment.
- influents — Plural form of influent.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- leftfield — From out of left field; off-the-wall.
- leitmotif — a motif or theme associated throughout a music drama with a particular person, situation, or idea.
- lentiform — lenticular.
- life belt — a beltlike life preserver.
- life list — a list of species sighted and identified by a bird watcher or naturalist over a lifetime.
- 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 vest — life jacket.
- 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.
- lifeboats — Plural form of lifeboat.
- lifestyle — the habits, attitudes, tastes, moral standards, economic level, etc., that together constitute the mode of living of an individual or group.
- lifetimes — Plural form of lifetime.
- lift bolt — an eyebolt, as on a yardarm, to which a topping lift is secured.
- lift cage — the box of a lift, in the form of an open framework
- lift pump — a pump in which a liquid is lifted rather than forced up from below.
- lift-slab — noting or pertaining to a technique of constructing multistory buildings in which all horizontal slabs are cast at ground level and, when ready, are raised into position by hydraulic jacks.
- liftgates — Plural form of liftgate.
- lightface — a type characterized by thin, light lines. This is a sample of lightface.
- lightfast — not affected or faded by light, especially sunlight; colorfast when exposed to light.
- lightfoot — (poetic) Light-footed.
- lithified — Simple past tense and past participle of lithify.
- loanshift — change or extension of the meaning of a word through the influence of a foreign word, as in the application in English of the meaning “profession” to the word calling through the influence of Latin vocātio.
- loftiness — extending high in the air; of imposing height; towering: lofty mountains.
- midflight — Occurring in the middle portion of a flight.
- mirthfull — Archaic form of mirthful.