9-letter words containing f, l, a, t, i, s
- fractiles — Plural form of fractile.
- frailties — Plural form of frailty.
- frontalis — A muscle of the head, sometimes considered to be part of the occipitofrontalis muscle.
- frugalist — A person who acts frugally.
- halftimes — Plural form of halftime.
- latensify — to increase the developability of (the latent image on a film or plate) after exposure.
- 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.
- lifeboats — Plural form of lifeboat.
- 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.
- lightfast — not affected or faded by light, especially sunlight; colorfast when exposed to light.
- 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.
- olfactics — The study of smells and how they are perceived.
- past life — previous incarnation
- 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.
- postfixal — of or relating to a postfix, having postfixes
- rijstafel — an assortment of Indonesian side dishes accompanied by rice
- safelight — a darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.
- shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.
- soft hail — snow pellets.
- 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.
- sulfation — Chemistry. a salt or ester of sulfuric acid.
- sulfatize — to convert into a sulfate, as by the roasting of ores.
- tailfirst — with the tail or rear part foremost.
- trifocals — glasses with trifocal lenses
- welfarist — the set of attitudes and policies characterizing or tending toward the establishment of a welfare state.