9-letter words containing m, i, l, f
- lanciform — shaped like a lance: lanciform windows.
- larviform — (zoology) Having the form or structure of a larva.
- leitmotif — a motif or theme associated throughout a music drama with a particular person, situation, or idea.
- lemonfish — the cobia.
- 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 mask — a cast of the face of a living person.
- lifeforms — Plural form of lifeform.
- lifetimes — Plural form of lifetime.
- lift pump — a pump in which a liquid is lifted rather than forced up from below.
- ligniform — having the form of wood; resembling wood, as a variety of asbestos.
- 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.
- liquiform — Resembling a liquid.
- 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.
- mail flag — a flag of the International Code of Signals symbolizing the letter Y, flown alone by a ship to indicate that it is carrying mail: a square flag with red and yellow diagonal stripes.
- makefiles — Plural form of makefile.
- mala fide — in bad faith; not genuine.
- manifolds — Plural form of manifold.
- mansfield — a city in W Nottinghamshire, in central England.
- masefield — John, 1878–1967, English poet: poet laureate 1930–67.
- mcauliffe — Anthony Clement, 1898–1975, U.S. Army general.
- mean life — the average time of existence of an unstable or reactive entity, such as a nucleus, elementary particle, charge carrier, etc; lifetime. It is equal to the half-life divided by 0.693 15
- 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.
- midflight — Occurring in the middle portion of a flight.
- mindfully — attentive, aware, or careful (usually followed by of): mindful of one's responsibilities.
- minefield — an area of land or water throughout which explosive mines have been laid.
- mirifical — (rare) miraculous, wonderful.
- mirthfull — Archaic form of mirthful.
- misbefall — (transitive, obsolete) Of an event, to happen unfortunately to (a person).
- misbelief — erroneous belief; false opinion.
- misfolded — Simple past tense and past participle of misfold.
- modafinil — A stimulant often used in the treatment of various sleep disorders, having the chemical formula C15H15NO2S.
- moldy fig — a musician or fan who likes traditional jazz or Dixieland rather than modern jazz.
- mollified — to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease.
- mollifier — (mathematics) An
- mollifies — to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease.
- multifoil — a foil, especially one having more than five lobes.
- multifold — numerous and varied; greatly diverse; manifold.
- multiform — having many different shapes, forms, or kinds.
- multifuel — Using or involving more than one kind of fuel.
- myofibril — a contractile fibril of skeletal muscle, composed mainly of actin and myosin.
- news film — a film showing main events in the news
- nonfamily — Not a member of the family.
- oriflamme — the red banner of St. Denis, near Paris, carried before the early kings of France as a military ensign.
- ovaliform — Shaped like an egg; having a figure such that any section in the direction of the shorter diameter will be circular, and any in the direction of the longer diameter will be oval.
- pelviform — basin-shaped
- planiform — having a flattened shape, as an anatomical joint.
- plexiform — of, relating to, or resembling a plexus.