8-letter words containing a, f, t, l, o
- foliated — covered with or having leaves.
- folk art — artistic works, as paintings, sculpture, basketry, and utensils, produced typically in cultural isolation by untrained often anonymous artists or by artisans of varying degrees of skill and marked by such attributes as highly decorative design, bright bold colors, flattened perspective, strong forms in simple arrangements, and immediacy of meaning.
- folktale — a tale or legend originating and traditional among a people or folk, especially one forming part of the oral tradition of the common people.
- fontanel — one of the spaces, covered by membrane, between the bones of the fetal or young skull.
- football — a game in which two opposing teams of 11 players each defend goals at opposite ends of a field having goal posts at each end, with points being scored chiefly by carrying the ball across the opponent's goal line and by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball over the crossbar between the opponent's goal posts. Compare conversion (def 13), field goal (def 1), safety (def 6), touchdown.
- footfall — a footstep.
- footwall — Mining. the top of the rock stratum underlying a vein or bed of ore. Compare hanging wall (def 1).
- forestal — a large tract of land covered with trees and underbrush; woodland.
- forktail — Any of various small insectivorous birds in the genus Enicurus.
- forstall — Obsolete form of forestall.
- foucault — Jean Bernard Léon [zhahn ber-nar ley-awn] /ʒɑ̃ bɛrˈnar leɪˈɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1819–68, French physicist.
- foulmart — the European polecat, Mustela putorius.
- foxtails — Plural form of foxtail.
- frontals — Plural form of frontal.
- gatefold — foldout (def 1).
- halftone — Also called middle-tone. (in painting, drawing, graphics, photography, etc.) a value intermediate between light and dark.
- haylofts — Plural form of hayloft.
- holdfast — something used to hold or secure a thing in place; a catch, hook, clamp, etc.
- inflator — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- leadfoot — a person who drives a motor vehicle too fast, especially habitually.
- lifeboat — 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.
- loaf tin — a tin that is used for baking bread
- loathful — Scot. bashful; reluctant.
- lockfast — (Scottish) Fastened or secured with a lock.
- loftsman — a person who prepares molds and patterns.
- matfelon — knapweed
- meatloaf — A dish of ground meat formed into a loaf shape, mixed with egg and breadcrumbs, then baked or smoked, and usually served in slices.
- no-fault — Also called no-fault insurance. a form of automobile insurance designed to enable the policyholder in case of an accident to collect a certain basic compensation promptly for economic loss from his or her own insurance company without determination of liability.
- nonfatal — causing or capable of causing death; mortal; deadly: a fatal accident; a fatal dose of poison.
- not half — Half is sometimes used in negative statements, with a positive meaning, to emphasize a particular fact or quality. For example, if you say 'he isn't half lucky', you mean that he is very lucky.
- old fart — fart (def 2).
- olefiant — producing or forming oil, most commonly ethylene
- olfactor — A smelling organ; a nose.
- outfable — to exceed in creating fables
- outfalls — Plural form of outfall.
- outflank — to go or extend beyond the flank of (an opposing military unit); turn the flank of.
- outflare — to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind.
- outflash — a brief, sudden burst of bright light: a flash of lightning.
- outfloat — to float longer than
- pantofle — a slipper.
- petaflop — a measure of processing speed, consisting of 1015 floating-point operations a second
- platform — a horizontal surface or structure with a horizontal surface raised above the level of the surrounding area.
- rotflmao — (chat) Rolling on the floor laughing my ass (arse) off. An extreme form of ROTFL.
- softball — a form of baseball played on a smaller diamond with a ball that is larger and softer than a baseball.
- tail off — diminish gradually
- teraflop — a measure of processing speed, consisting of a thousand billion floating-point operations a second
- toadflax — a common European plant, Linaria vulgaris, of the figwort family, having narrow leaves and showy yellow-and-orange flowers, naturalized as a weed in the U.S.
- trifocal — Optics. having three foci.
- wool fat — lanolin.