9-letter words containing f, o, e, t, a, l
- fortilage — (obsolete) A little fort; a blockhouse.
- fossulate — hollowed; grooved
- foveolate — having foveolae, or very small pits.
- gatefolds — Plural form of gatefold.
- half note — a note equivalent in time value to one half of a whole note; minim.
- half tone — semitone.
- half-note — a note equivalent in time value to one half of a whole note; minim.
- halftones — Plural form of halftone.
- lakefront — the land along the edge of a lake: Property along the lakefront is more expensive every year.
- lead foot — a person who drives a motor vehicle too fast, especially habitually.
- lead-foot — a person who drives a motor vehicle too fast, especially habitually.
- leaf spot — a limited, often circular, discolored, diseased area on a leaf, usually including a central region of necrosis.
- 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.
- lovecraft — H(oward) P(hillips) 1890–1937, U.S. horror-story writer.
- matfellon — knapweed
- meat loaf — a dish of ground meat, often mixed with other ingredients, as bread crumbs and seasonings, molded in the shape of a loaf and baked.
- olfactive — Of or pertaining to the sense of smell; olfactory.
- pantofles — a slipper.
- petaflops — (unit) 10^15 flops or 1000 teraflops. As with flops, the term ends in S in both the singular and plural as the S stands for seconds. The first computer to perform one petaflops was recorded in June 2008. By June 2012 there were 20.
- reflation — restoration of economic activity, consumer prices, etc., to higher levels by manipulating monetary policy.
- sootflake — a smudge or speck of soot
- sulfonate — an ester or salt derived from a sulfonic acid.
- team foul — one of a number of personal fouls committed within a specified period that do not exceed the allowable limit after which the opposing team begins to receive bonus free throws.
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
- waterfowl — a water bird, especially a swimming bird.