9-letter words containing l, a, f, o, e
- lifeboats — Plural form of lifeboat.
- loaferish — (of a person) idle, lazy
- long face — an unhappy or gloomy expression: He's been walking around with a long face ever since he failed the examination.
- looseleaf — Consisting of loose leaves (pages), often collected in a binder, rather than being bound like a book or stapled.
- lose face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- lovecraft — H(oward) P(hillips) 1890–1937, U.S. horror-story writer.
- malformed — faultily or anomalously formed.
- matfellon — knapweed
- mayflower — (italics) the ship in which the Pilgrims sailed from Southampton to the New World in 1620.
- 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.
- megaflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one million floating-point operations per second.
- megaflora — plants large enough to be seen by the naked eye
- nonfeudal — not feudal or related to the feudal system
- nose leaf — a leaflike outgrowth of skin on the nose of various bats, thought to be sensitive to vibrations of the air.
- off label — of, relating to, or denoting a drug prescribed for a particular indication even though the drug has not yet received approval from the Food and Drug Administration for that disease, condition, or symptom.
- off-label — of, relating to, or denoting a drug prescribed for a particular indication even though the drug has not yet received approval from the Food and Drug Administration for that disease, condition, or symptom.
- off-sales — sales of alcoholic drink for consumption off the premises by a pub or an off-licence attached to a pub
- offerable — able to be offered
- offloaded — Simple past tense and past participle of offload.
- offsaddle — (transitive, chiefly, South Africa) To unsaddle; remove the saddle from.
- old flame — An old flame is someone with whom you once had a romantic relationship.
- olfactive — Of or pertaining to the sense of smell; olfactory.
- oriflamme — the red banner of St. Denis, near Paris, carried before the early kings of France as a military ensign.
- overfalls — Oceanography. water made rough by a strong current moving over a shoal, by an opposing current, or by winds blowing against the current.
- 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.
- profanely — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- reflation — restoration of economic activity, consumer prices, etc., to higher levels by manipulating monetary policy.
- safflower — a thistlelike composite plant, Carthamus tinctorius, native to the Old World, having finely toothed leaves and large, orange-red flower heads.
- sea-floor — the solid surface underlying a sea or an ocean.
- snowflake — one of the small, feathery masses or flakes in which snow falls.
- 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.
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
- waterfowl — a water bird, especially a swimming bird.
- waxflower — (botany) Any plant of the genus Hoya.
- wolfsbane — any of several plants in the aconite genus Aconitum, including A. lycoctonum, bearing stalks of hood-shaped purplish-blue flowers, the monkshood A. napellus, which yields a poisonous alkaloid used medicinally, and numerous garden varieties in various colors.