9-letter words containing f, t
- 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 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.
- 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.
- leaf spot — a limited, often circular, discolored, diseased area on a leaf, usually including a central region of necrosis.
- leafleted — Simple past tense and past participle of leaflet.
- leafstalk — petiole (def 1).
- left back — a defending player on the left side of the field
- left bank — a part of Paris, France, on the S bank of the Seine: frequented by artists, writers, and students.
- left half — a defensive player who plays midfield, on the left side of the pitch
- left join — outer join
- left over — remaining
- left wing — members of a liberal or radical political party, or those favoring extensive political reform.
- left-face — a 90° turn to the left, especially as a marching command.
- left-hand — on or to the left: a left-hand turn at the intersection.
- 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.
- leftenant — Archaic form of lieutenant.
- leftfield — From out of left field; off-the-wall.
- leftovers — Plural form of leftover.
- leftwards — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
- leitmotif — a motif or theme associated throughout a music drama with a particular person, situation, or idea.
- lengthful — long
- 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.
- lovecraft — H(oward) P(hillips) 1890–1937, U.S. horror-story writer.
- lowestoft — a seaport in NE Suffolk, in E England: famous for a type of china.
- luftwaffe — air force.
- lustfully — full of or motivated by lust, greed, or the like: He was an emperor lustful of power.
- makeshift — a temporary expedient or substitute: We used boxes as a makeshift while the kitchen chairs were being painted.
- maleffect — an undesirable effect
- manifesto — a public declaration of intentions, opinions, objectives, or motives, as one issued by a government, sovereign, or organization.