9-letter words containing l, e, f, t, o
- fullerton — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
- 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.
- interflow — to flow into each other; intermingle.
- interfold — to fold one within another; fold together.
- 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.
- left join — outer join
- left over — remaining
- leftovers — Plural form of leftover.
- leitmotif — a motif or theme associated throughout a music drama with a particular person, situation, or idea.
- lentiform — lenticular.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- molestful — (obsolete) troublesome; vexatious.
- mouthfeel — the tactile sensation a food gives to the mouth: a creamy mouthfeel.
- nonfluent — spoken or written with ease: fluent French.
- olfactive — Of or pertaining to the sense of smell; olfactory.
- outfields — Plural form of outfield.
- outfumble — to exceed in fumbling
- 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.
- pocketful — the amount that a pocket will hold.
- profluent — flowing smoothly or abundantly forth.
- reflation — restoration of economic activity, consumer prices, etc., to higher levels by manipulating monetary policy.
- reflector — a person or thing that reflects.
- retroflex — bent backward; exhibiting retroflexion.
- soft lens — a nonrigid contact lens made of porous plastic, having a high water content that is replenished from eye surface moisture.
- soft line — a position or policy, as in politics, that is moderate and flexible.
- soft sell — gentle persuasion to buy sth
- soft-sell — to promote (a product, service, etc.) using indirect or gentle persuasion: an advertising campaign to soft-sell a new perfume.
- 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.
- tempelhof — a district of S West Berlin: international airport.
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
- terrorful — intense, sharp, overmastering fear: to be frantic with terror.
- the flood — the flood extending over all the earth from which Noah and his family and livestock were saved in the ark. (Genesis 7–8); the Deluge
- threefold — comprising three parts, members, or aspects; triple: a threefold program.
- toll-free — made, used, provided, etc., without tolls or a charge: a toll-free highway; a toll-free phone number.