9-letter words containing f, l, a, t, r
- frugalist — A person who acts frugally.
- frugality — the quality of being frugal, or prudent in saving; the lack of wastefulness: Many people who have lived through periods of economic deprivation develop lifelong habits of frugality and are almost never tempted by wasteful consumption.
- fulgurant — flashing like lightning.
- fulgurate — to flash or dart like lightning.
- furcately — in a furcate manner
- golf cart — a small, battery-powered, three- or four-wheel vehicle used for transporting one or two golfers and their equipment around a golf course.
- gratefull — Archaic form of grateful.
- half rest — a rest equal in time value to a half note.
- half term — a word or group of words designating something, especially in a particular field, as atom in physics, quietism in theology, adze in carpentry, or district leader in politics.
- half-term — Half-term is a short holiday in the middle of a school term.
- half-turn — a 180-degree turn; a direct reversal of direction or orientation, as from front to back or left to right.
- halftrack — an army truck, armored vehicle, etc. with tractor treads in the rear, but with a pair of wheels in front
- hard left — You use hard left to describe those members of a left wing political group or party who have the most extreme political beliefs.
- heartfelt — deeply or sincerely felt: heartfelt sympathy.
- heartleaf — Wild ginger, Asarum caudatum.
- 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.
- karlfeldt — Erik Axel [ey-rik ahk-suh l] /ˈeɪ rɪk ˈɑk səl/ (Show IPA), 1864–1931, Swedish poet: Nobel Prize posthumously 1931.
- lakefront — the land along the edge of a lake: Property along the lakefront is more expensive every year.
- laticifer — a tubular structure through which latex circulates in a plant.
- leaf rust — a disease, especially of cereals and other grasses, characterized by rust-colored pustules of spores on the affected leaf blades and sheaths and caused by any of several rust fungi.
- leftwards — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
- 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.
- lovecraft — H(oward) P(hillips) 1890–1937, U.S. horror-story writer.
- masterful — dominating; self-willed; imperious.
- matterful — (of an author or book) full of interesting or significant ideas
- olfactory — of or relating to the sense of smell: olfactory organs.
- platforms — a horizontal surface or structure with a horizontal surface raised above the level of the surrounding area.
- pratfalls — a fall in which one lands on the buttocks, often regarded as comical or humiliating.
- reflation — restoration of economic activity, consumer prices, etc., to higher levels by manipulating monetary policy.
- refutable — to prove to be false or erroneous, as an opinion or charge.
- reinflate — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- rijstafel — an assortment of Indonesian side dishes accompanied by rice
- salt-free — containing or involving no salt
- shortfall — the quantity or extent by which something falls short; deficiency; shortage.
- solfatara — a fumarole that gives off only sulfurous gases.
- 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.
- sulfurate — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur, the fumes of burning sulfur, etc.
- tailfirst — with the tail or rear part foremost.
- telferage — a transportation system in which cars or other carriers are suspended from or run on wire cables or the like, especially one operated by electricity.
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
- threatful — threatening, menacing or full of threats
- trafalgar — Cape, a cape on the SW coast of Spain, W of Gibraltar: British naval victory over the French and Spanish fleets 1805.
- trafola-h — A specification language for program transformations. Functional, statically typed, polymorphic, with extended constructs for pattern-matching. "Trafola-H Reference Manual", R. Heckmann et al, U Saarlandes, Saarbrucken 1991.
- trail off — diminish
- tram flap — transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous flap: a piece of tissue, consisting of skin, muscle, and fat, taken from the abdomen of a woman and used in the reconstruction of her breast after mastectomy
- trifacial — trigeminal.
- trifocals — glasses with trifocal lenses
- ultrafast — extremely fast: ultrafast computers.
- ultrafine — extremely small or delicate
- ultraleft — of or belonging to the extreme political Left; extremely liberal or radical.