9-letter words containing af
- isografts — Plural form of isograft.
- jackshaft — Also called countershaft. a short shaft, connected by belting, gears, etc., that transmits motion from a motor or engine to a machine or machines being driven (distinguished from main shaft).
- jackstaff — A short flagpole at a ship’s bow, on which a jack is flown.
- kaffiyehs — Plural form of kaffiyeh.
- kaffraria — a region in the S Republic of South Africa: inhabited mostly by the Xhosa.
- kingcraft — the art of ruling as king; royal statesmanship.
- 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.
- largeleaf — Applied to various kinds of plant characterized by large leaves.
- leaf lard — lard prepared from the leaf fat of the hog.
- leaf mold — a compost or layer of soil consisting chiefly of decayed vegetable matter, especially leaves.
- 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 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.
- leaf-lard — lard prepared from the leaf fat of the hog.
- leafbirds — Plural form of leafbird.
- leafiness — The state or condition of being leafy.
- leafleted — Simple past tense and past participle of leaflet.
- leafstalk — petiole (def 1).
- 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.
- liverleaf — hepatica.
- loaferish — (of a person) idle, lazy
- looseleaf — Consisting of loose leaves (pages), often collected in a binder, rather than being bound like a book or stapled.
- lovecraft — H(oward) P(hillips) 1890–1937, U.S. horror-story writer.
- luftwaffe — air force.
- magnaflux — to test (iron or steel) for defects using the Magnaflux method.
- 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.
- meat safe — a container where meat is stored
- megafarad — a unit of electric capacitance equal to one million farads
- megafauna — land animals of a given area that can be seen with the unaided eye.
- megafirms — Plural form of megafirm.
- 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
- 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.
- modafinil — A stimulant often used in the treatment of various sleep disorders, having the chemical formula C15H15NO2S.
- mooncraft — a lunar module
- motoscafo — a passenger motorboat most often used on the canals in Venice
- musharraf — Pervez (ˈpɛrveɪz). born 1943, Pakistani general and politician; became military leader of Pakistan following a coup in 2001; president (2001–08)
- nafcillin — A beta-lactam antibiotic of the penicillin class.
- nose leaf — a leaflike outgrowth of skin on the nose of various bats, thought to be sensitive to vibrations of the air.
- outcrafty — to be craftier than
- overdraft — an act or instance of overdrawing a checking account.
- overstaff — to provide an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- packstaff — a long pole for carrying a pack
- palafitte — a prehistoric dwelling
- palm leaf — the leaf or frond of a palm tree, especially that of a fan palm, used in making fans, hats, thatch, mats, etc.
- paraffine — paraffin.
- paraffiny — of, relating to, or characteristic of paraffin; covered with or smelling of paraffin