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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.
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