9-letter words containing l, f, r
- laticifer — a tubular structure through which latex circulates in a plant.
- lead-free — unleaded.
- leaf lard — lard prepared from the leaf fat of the hog.
- leaf roll — a viral disease of plants, especially potatoes, characterized by upward rolling of the leaflets, chlorosis, stunting, and necrosis of the phloem.
- 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 scar — the mark left on a stem or twig after a leaf falls.
- leaf-lard — lard prepared from the leaf fat of the hog.
- leafbirds — Plural form of leafbird.
- leakproof — designed to prevent leaking: a leakproof bottle.
- leapfrogs — Plural form of leapfrog.
- left over — remaining
- leftovers — Plural form of leftover.
- leftwards — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
- leinsdorf — Erich [er-ik;; German ey-rikh] /ˈɛr ɪk;; German ˈeɪ rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1912–1993, U.S. orchestra conductor, born in Austria.
- lentiform — lenticular.
- libriform — (of a fibre of woody tissue) elongated and having a pitted thickened cell wall
- life form — the form that is characteristic of a particular organism at maturity.
- life peer — a peer whose title ceases at death; nonhereditary peer.
- 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-care — designed to provide for the basic needs of elderly residents, usually in return for an initial fee and monthly service payments: a life-care facility; life-care communities.
- lifeforms — Plural form of lifeform.
- lifeguard — an expert swimmer employed, as at a beach or pool, to protect bathers from drowning or other accidents and dangers.
- lifesaver — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
- lifeworld — All the immediate experiences, activities, and contacts that make up the world of an individual or corporate life.
- ligniform — having the form of wood; resembling wood, as a variety of asbestos.
- like fury — violently; furiously
- lim fjord — a fjord in N Denmark running E from the North Sea to the Kattegat. About 110 miles (175 km) long.
- link farm — (file system, Unix) A directory tree that contains mostly symbolic links to files in a master directory tree of files. Link farms save space when one is maintaining several nearly identical copies of the same source tree - for example, when the only difference is architecture-dependent object files. They also mean that changes to the master tree are instantly visible in the link farm. Good text editors provide the option to replace a link with a new version of the target file when saving thus allowing the farm to have its own versions of just those files that differ from the master tree. E.g. "Let's freeze the source and then rebuild the FROBOZZ-3 and FROBOZZ-4 link farms." Link farms may also be used to get around restrictions on the number of "-I" (include-file directory) arguments on older C preprocessors. However, they can also get completely out of hand, becoming the file system equivalent of spaghetti code.
- liquefier — A device used to liquify gases (by cooling and compression).
- liquiform — Resembling a liquid.
- liverleaf — hepatica.
- loaferish — (of a person) idle, lazy
- long-form — noting or relating to journalistic content or a genre of journalism characterized by stories or essays that are several thousand words long, typically combining factual reporting with a narrative and empathetic style: A long-form article can illuminate and humanize your subject.
- lovecraft — H(oward) P(hillips) 1890–1937, U.S. horror-story writer.
- low floor — A low floor in a hotel is the first floor, or a level that is a short distance from the first floor.
- low-proof — low in alcohol content
- luciferin — a pigment occurring in luminescent organisms, as fireflies, that emits light when undergoing oxidation.
- m-1 rifle — a semiautomatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber, clip-fed rifle, with a weight of 8.56 pounds (3.88 kg): the standard U.S. Army rifle in World War II and in the Korean War.
- male fern — a bright-green fern, Dryopteris filix-mas, of Europe and northeastern North America.
- malformed — faultily or anomalously formed.
- march fly — any of several flies of the family Bibionidae that appear during spring and early summer.
- masterful — dominating; self-willed; imperious.
- matterful — (of an author or book) full of interesting or significant ideas
- mayflower — (italics) the ship in which the Pilgrims sailed from Southampton to the New World in 1620.
- megaflora — plants large enough to be seen by the naked eye
- mercyfull — Obsolete spelling of merciful.
- microfilm — a film bearing a miniature photographic copy of printed or other graphic matter, usually of a document, newspaper or book pages, etc., made for a library, archive, or the like.
- mirifical — (rare) miraculous, wonderful.
- mirthfull — Archaic form of mirthful.
- mollifier — (mathematics) An