9-letter words containing l, e, f, t
- gratefull — Archaic form of grateful.
- half cent — a bronze coin of the U.S., equal to one-half cent, issued at various periods between 1793 and 1857.
- half note — a note equivalent in time value to one half of a whole note; minim.
- half rest — a rest equal in time value to a half note.
- half step — Music. semitone.
- 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 tide — the state or time of the tide when halfway between high water and low water.
- half tone — semitone.
- half-note — a note equivalent in time value to one half of a whole note; minim.
- half-step — Music. semitone.
- half-term — Half-term is a short holiday in the middle of a school term.
- half-tide — the state or time of the tide when halfway between high water and low water.
- half-time — the period indicating completion of half the time allowed for an activity, as for a football or basketball game or an examination.
- halftimes — Plural form of halftime.
- halftones — Plural form of halftone.
- 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.
- hatefully — In a hateful manner.
- healthful — conducive to health; wholesome or salutary: a healthful diet.
- heartfelt — deeply or sincerely felt: heartfelt sympathy.
- heartleaf — Wild ginger, Asarum caudatum.
- ill-fated — destined, as though by fate, to an unhappy or unfortunate end: an ill-fated voyage.
- in itself — per se
- inciteful — That incites (rouses, stirs up or excites), or provides incitement.
- infantile — characteristic of or befitting an infant; babyish; childish: infantile behavior.
- infertile — not fertile; unproductive; sterile; barren: infertile soil.
- inflative — causing inflation; tending to inflate (something) or produce swelling
- inflected — to modulate (the voice).
- inflicted — to impose as something that must be borne or suffered: to inflict punishment.
- inflicter — One who inflicts.
- influents — Plural form of influent.
- interfile — to combine two or more similarly arranged sets of items, as cards or documents, into a single file.
- interflow — to flow into each other; intermingle.
- interfold — to fold one within another; fold together.
- 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.
- kettleful — An amount sufficient to fill a kettle, particularly of a kettle used for cooking.
- khalifate — the rank, jurisdiction, or government of a caliph.
- lafayette — Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier [ma-ree zhaw-zef pawl eev rawk zheel-ber dy maw-tyey] /maˈri ʒɔˈzɛf pɔl iv rɔk ʒilˈbɛr dü mɔˈtyeɪ/ (Show IPA), Marquis de. Also, La Fayette. 1757–1834, French soldier, statesman, and liberal leader, who served in the American Revolutionary Army as aide-de-camp to General Washington, and took a leading part in the French revolutions of 1789 and 1830.
- lakefront — the land along the edge of a lake: Property along the lakefront is more expensive every year.
- latensify — to increase the developability of (the latent image on a film or plate) after exposure.
- laticifer — a tubular structure through which latex circulates in a plant.
- 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.