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9-letter words containing t, a, f, e, i

  • 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.
  • khalifate — the rank, jurisdiction, or government of a caliph.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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-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.
  • lift cage — the box of a lift, in the form of an open framework
  • liftgates — Plural form of liftgate.
  • lightface — a type characterized by thin, light lines. This is a sample of lightface.
  • makeshift — a temporary expedient or substitute: We used boxes as a makeshift while the kitchen chairs were being painted.
  • manifesto — a public declaration of intentions, opinions, objectives, or motives, as one issued by a government, sovereign, or organization.
  • manifests — Plural form of manifest.
  • mattified — Simple past tense and past participle of mattify.
  • minecraft — a type of warship for sweeping mines at sea.
  • mineshaft — A vertical hole, sunk down through the strata to reach the mineral which was to be mined.
  • officiate — to perform the office of a member of the clergy, as at a divine service.
  • olfactive — Of or pertaining to the sense of smell; olfactory.
  • palafitte — a prehistoric dwelling
  • past life — previous incarnation
  • pedatifid — (of a plant leaf) pedately divided, with the divisions less deep than in a pedate leaf
  • pikestaff — the shaft of an infantry pike.
  • raffinate — the part of a liquid, especially an oil, remaining after its more soluble components have been extracted by a solvent.
  • ratifiers — to confirm by expressing consent, approval, or formal sanction: to ratify a constitutional amendment.
  • recitatif — recitative2 .
  • reflation — restoration of economic activity, consumer prices, etc., to higher levels by manipulating monetary policy.
  • refudiate — to reject as untrue or refuse to acknowledge.
  • reinflate — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
  • rijstafel — an assortment of Indonesian side dishes accompanied by rice
  • rotiferan — relating to the phylum of freshwater invertebrates Rotifera
  • safelight — a darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.
  • satisfice — to choose or adopt the first satisfactory option that one comes across: the tendency of decision-makers to satisfice rather than look for the optimal solution.
  • satisfied — content: a satisfied look.
  • satisfies — to fulfill the desires, expectations, needs, or demands of (a person, the mind, etc.); give full contentment to: The hearty meal satisfied him.
  • sea fight — a fight between ships at sea.
  • sheatfish — a large, freshwater catfish, Silurus glanis, inhabiting rivers in central and eastern Europe, sometimes reaching a weight of 400 pounds (181.4 kg).
  • shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.
  • shitfaced — very drunk.
  • stiffware — a type of computer software that is difficult to modify
  • sulfatize — to convert into a sulfate, as by the roasting of ores.
  • tackifier — a substance that causes tackiness
  • tafelwein — German table wine
  • take fire — to begin to burn
  • take five — a cardinal number, four plus one.
  • take life — to kill
  • tallchief — Maria, 1925–2013, U.S. ballet dancer.
  • tamoxifen — an antineoplastic drug, C 26 H 29 NO, that blocks the estrogen receptors on cancer cells, used in the treatment of breast cancer.
  • taxi fare — the money a customer pays for a journey in a taxi
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